Acting

Dolores Dorn

Born March 3, 1934 · Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died October 5, 2019 · aged 85

Some actresses have entered films via the stage while others walked the path of a successful modelling career. Dolores Dorn managed to straddle both, by being a graduate of Chicago's Goodman Art Theatre as well as having been a former place-getter (second and third, respectively, in 1950 and 1951) at the annual Miss Chicago contest. A blonde beauty with a sunny smile, she was also voted 'Miss Phot…

Known For

The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter · 1954

The Bounty Hunter

MovieWesternAction

A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

Phantom of the Rue Morgue · 1954

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

MovieThrillerCrime

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya · 1957

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

Truck Stop Women

Truck Stop Women · 1974

Truck Stop Women

MovieActionDrama

A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.

The Candy Snatchers

The Candy Snatchers · 1973

The Candy Snatchers

MovieThrillerCrime

A nonverbal autistic boy stumbles upon a teenage heiress who has been kidnapped by a trio of young psychopaths, who are intent on extorting diamonds from her stepfather.

13 West Street

13 West Street · 1962

MovieCrimeDrama

Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.

Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A. · 1961

Underworld U.S.A.

MovieCrimeThriller

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers · 1977

Intimate Strangers

MovieDramaTV Movie

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

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The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter · 1954

The Bounty Hunter

MovieWesternAction

A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.

Julie Spencer

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

Phantom of the Rue Morgue · 1954

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

MovieThrillerCrime

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

Camille

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya · 1957

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

Elena Andreevna

Truck Stop Women

Truck Stop Women · 1974

Truck Stop Women

MovieActionDrama

A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.

Trish

The Candy Snatchers

The Candy Snatchers · 1973

The Candy Snatchers

MovieThrillerCrime

A nonverbal autistic boy stumbles upon a teenage heiress who has been kidnapped by a trio of young psychopaths, who are intent on extorting diamonds from her stepfather.

Katherine

13 West Street

13 West Street · 1962

MovieCrimeDrama

Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.

Tracey Sherill

Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A. · 1961

Underworld U.S.A.

MovieCrimeThriller

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Cuddles

Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers · 1977

Intimate Strangers

MovieDramaTV Movie

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

Dolores

Night Cries

Night Cries · 1978

MovieHorrorDrama

A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.

Nurse Green

The Girls of Huntington House

The Girls of Huntington House · 1973

The Girls of Huntington House

MovieDramaTV Movie

An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.

Gail's Mother

The Stronger

The Stronger · 1976

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. 

Tell Me a Riddle

Tell Me a Riddle · 1980

Tell Me a Riddle

Aging couple David and Eva have lost the spark that once infused their marriage. After nearly four decades together, the elderly duo is feel disconnected and lost. When they discover that Eva is sick, they decide to travel across the country to stay with their granddaughter in San Francisco. On the trip, with Eva's possible death looming, the couple rediscovers the passion and love that had been missing from their lives.

Vivi

American Playhouse

American Playhouse · 1982

American Playhouse

SeriesDramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Vivi

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels · 1976

Charlie's Angels

SeriesAction & Adventure

Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.

Mrs. Evers