Actor
Dorothy Short
June 29, 1915 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dorothy Short (1915 - 1963) was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become a well-known cult film. She also appeared in another anti-marijuana film Assassin of Youth in 1937.
Often works with
Dave O'Brien
12 titles together
Tell Your Children, Spooks Run Wild, Daughter of the Tong
Pete Smith
5 titles together
I Love My Mother-In-Law But..., Bargain Madness, Things We Can Do Without
Ted Adams
3 titles together
Phantom Rancher, Code of the Cactus, Frontier Crusader
Carl Mathews
3 titles together
Phantom Rancher, Code of the Cactus, The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Bob Terry
3 titles together
Code of the Cactus, Where the Buffalo Roam, Brothers of the West
Richard Alexander
2 titles together
Tell Your Children, Where the Buffalo Roam
Full filmography · 30
Savage Fury
as Mona Andrews
1956
Things We Can Do Without
as Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
1953
Bargain Madness
as Dorothy (uncredited)
1951A Wife's Life
as Mrs. George T. Hardnose
1950
Just Suppose
as Wife (uncredited)
1948I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
as The Wife (uncredited)
1948I Love My Wife BUT!
as The Wife (uncredited)
1947I Love My Husband, But!
as The Wife (uncredited)
1946
Captain Midnight
as Joyce Edwards
1942
Bullets for Bandits
as Dakota Brown
1942
The Lone Rider Fights Back
as Jean Dennison
1941
Spooks Run Wild
as Linda Mason
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