Cast & creator
Dorothy Davenport
Best known for Footsteps in the Fog, Breed o' the Mountains, Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith. While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid was injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large doses of morphine to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew worse over the next few years, and he died of the addiction in 1923. After Reid's death, Davenport and Thomas Ince co-produced the film Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, a film that dealt with the dangers of narcotics addiction. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow engagement, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-love called Broken Laws in 1924, again billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband's notorious death. She then produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the film in silent narration or prologue. The details of the latter film were so realistic that Davenport was successfully sued. She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue director. Among her last credits are co-author of the screenplay for Footsteps in the Fog (1955), and as dialogue director for The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) with Ginger Rogers. She and husband Wallace Reid had two children. She was married to him until his death on January 18, 1923. She never remarried. Dorothy Davenport died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in 1977 in Woodland Hills, California. She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Davenport, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Fannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Reid, Dot Reid, Mrs. Wallace Reid
99
film credits
0
television credits
68
1910–1955 · acting roles
6.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (99)
Showing 99 of 99 credits
Footsteps in the Fog
Screenplay
1955Breed o' the Mountains
Sue Jarvis
1914
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Screenplay
1948
Redhead
Producer
1934
Impact
Writer
1949Retribution
Dorothy
1913The Voice of the Viola
Dorothy
1914The Countess Betty's Mine
Countess Betty Ardmore
1914
Hellship Bronson
Mrs. Bronson
1928
The Devil's Bondwoman
Beverly Hope
1916The Mountaineer
Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
1914
The Oath and the Man
Aristocrat
1910
Rhubarb
Screenplay
1951Passing of the Beast
The Mountie's Wife
1914
The Woman Condemned
Director
1934
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Writer
1940
Drums of the Desert
Screenplay
1940
The Way of the World
Beatrice Farley
1916
The Heart of the Hills
The Government Detective
1914
A Bride for Henry
Producer
1937
The Road to Ruin
Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
1934The Road to Ruin
Director
1934The Road to Ruin
Writer
1934
Doctor Neighbor
Hazel Rogers
1916
A Yoke of Gold
Carmen
1916
The Test of Manhood
Ethel Crandall
1914The Skeleton
Jack's Wife
1914
The Spider and Her Web
1914The Squaw Man's Son
Edith, Lady Effington
1917The Wheel of Life
The Prospector's Wife
1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
Dorothy West
1914
The Unattainable
Bessie Gale
1916The Intruder
The Woodsman's Sweetheart
1914Love's Western Flight
Dorothy
1914The Test
The Poor Man's Wife
1914A Cracksman Santa Claus
Dot
1913The Fruit of Evil
1914A Wife on a Wager
1914
The Scarlet Crystal
Marie Delys
1917
Linda
Director
1929
Redhead
Screenplay
1941
Honeymoon Limited
Producer
1935Honeymoon Limited
Screenplay
1935A Flash in the Dark
Mrs. Randall
1914Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Grand Duchess Feodora
1915
Pierre of the North
Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
1913A Hopi Legend
1913The Lightning Bolt
Dot
1913
The Den of Thieves
Dorothy
1914
Women Must Dress
Producer
1935Women Must Dress
Story
1935The Spark of Manhood
Maud Brewster
1913The Fires of Fate
Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
1913The Cracksman's Reformation
Dorothy
1913
A Brave Little Woman
Clara Lyttell
1912
Sucker Money
Director
1933
Prison Break
Screenplay
1938
Mothers of Men
Clara Madison
1917
The Girl and the Crisis
Ellen Wilmot
1917The Greater Devotion
1914
Women and Roses
Wallace's Mistress
1914
Curley
Story
1947
Barriers of Society
Martha Gorham
1916The Quack
Mary Rohan
1914The Troublesome Baby
Girl at Station
1910The Way of a Woman
Dorothy
1914
On the Spot
Screenplay
1940
In Humble Guise
Grace Hunt
1915
The Red Kimona
Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
1925The Red Kimona
Director
1925The Red Kimona
Writer
1925The Red Kimona
Producer
1925
Man Hunt
Mrs. Scott
1933
His Only Son
Jessie Carter
1912
The Racing Strain
Story
1932
Paradise Isle
Producer
1937
Her Indian Hero
Veda Mead
1912A Gypsy Romance
Queen of the Gypsies
1914
Human Wreckage
Ethel MacFarland
1923Human Wreckage
Director
1923Human Wreckage
Writer
1923Human Wreckage
Producer
1923
Haunted House
Screenplay
1940
Broken Laws
Joan Allen
1924
The Unknown
Nancy Preston
1915Fires of Conscience
Ethel
1914
The Golden Supper
Flower Girl
1910
Tomboy
Story
1940The Man Within
1914His Extra Bit
The Wife
1918
The Fighting Chance
Leila Mortimer
1920The Wrong Heart
1916
The Revelation
Mrs. Burns
1913
The Satin Woman
Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
1927
A Gold Necklace
A Friend
1910Cupid Incognito
Angela Graham
1914
Treason
Luella Brysk
1917
Black Friday
Elionor Rossitor
1916The Siren
Renee
1914