Known For
Acting
Known Credits
50
Gender
Female
Birthday
September 21, 1893 (132 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia
Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972) was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago, Terre Haute, Indiana and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was working in Hollywood.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dalton made her movie debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains, co-starring Edgar Selwyn, followed by the lead role in Across the Pacific that same year. In 1915, she appeared with William S. Hart in The Disciple. This production came before she left Triangle Film Corporation and was signed to Thomas Harper Ince Studios. While Ince meant to cast her in mature roles, she wanted to play ingénues and claimed she couldn't play women. Her role in The Disciple, however, in which she attracts a man who is not her husband, led to her being cast as a vamp. Her vamp, however, was untraditional in that she vamped unconsciously; in the words of Kay Anthony, "Not because she wanted people to think she was a full-fledged shatterer of hearts before the camera did she make pulses beat hard and fast, but because she couldn't help it: 'I guess I just must have been born that way!' Ince's company was operative from 1919 until his death in 1924. With Ince, she played in The Price Mark and Love Letters, both co-starring William Conklin. Dalton also performed with Rudolph Valentino in Moran of the Lady Letty (1922), and with H.B. Warner in The Flame of the Yukon (1917) and The Vagabond Prince (1916).
Dalton's stage career included performances as Chrysis in Aphrodite by Morris Gest in 1920 and on Broadway in The Country Wife.
| 1934 | The Camera Speaksas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1924 | The Lone Wolfas Lucy Shannon | |
| 1923 | Law of the Lawlessas Sahande | |
| 1923 | Fog Boundas Gale Brenon | |
| 1923 | Dark Secretsas Ruth Rutherford | |
| 1922 | The Siren Callas Charlotte Woods | |
| 1922 | On the High Seasas Leone Deveraux | |
| 1922 | A Trip to Paramountownas Self | |
| 1922 | The Woman Who Walked Aloneas The Honorable Iris Champneys | |
| 1922 | The Crimson Challengeas Tharon Last | |
| 1922 | Moran of the Lady Lettyas Moran Letty Sternersen | |
| 1921 | Fool's Paradiseas Poll Patchouli | |
| 1921 | Behind Masksas Jeanne Mesurier | |
| 1921 | The Idol of the Northas Colette Brissac | |
| 1920 | Half an Houras Lady Lillian Garson | |
| 1920 | Guilty of Loveas Thelma Miller | |
| 1920 | The Dark Mirroras Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore | |
| 1920 | Black Is Whiteas Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch | |
| 1919 | His Wife's Friendas Lady Marion Grimwood | |
| 1919 | L'apacheas Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong | |
| 1919 | The Market of Soulsas Helen Armes | |
| 1919 | Other Men's Wivesas Cynthia Brock | |
| 1919 | The Lady of Red Butteas Faro Fan | |
| 1919 | The Homebreakeras Mary Marbury | |
| 1919 | Extravaganceas Helen Douglas | |
| 1919 | Hard Boiledas Corinne Melrose | |
| 1918 | Quicksandas Mary Bowen | |
| 1918 | Vive la France!as Genevieve Bouchette | |
| 1918 | Green Eyesas Shirley Hunter | |
| 1918 | The Kaiser's Shadowas Paula Harris | |
| 1918 | Tyrant Fearas Allaine Grandet | |
| 1918 | Love Meas Maida Madison | |
| 1917 | Love Lettersas Eileen Rodney | |
| 1917 | The Price Markas Paula Lee | |
| 1917 | The Flame of the Yukonas Ethel Evans / 'The Flame' | |
| 1917 | Wild Winship's Widowas Catherine Winship | |
| 1917 | The Dark Roadas Cleo Morrison | |
| 1917 | Back of the Manas Ellen Horton | |
| 1917 | Chicken Caseyas Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry | |
| 1917 | The Weaker Sexas Ruth Tilden | |
| 1916 | A Gamble in Soulsas | |
| 1916 | The Vagabond Princeas Lola ''Fluffy'' | |
| 1916 | The Jungle Childas Ollante | |
| 1916 | The Captive Godas Tecolote | |
| 1916 | Civilization's Childas Ellen McManus | |
| 1916 | The Raidersas Dorothy Haldeman | |
| 1916 | The Three Musketeersas Queen Anne | |
| 1915 | The Discipleas Mary Houston | |
| 1914 | Across the Pacificas Elsie Escott | |
| 1914 | Pierre of the Plainsas Jen Galbraith |