Actor
Dora Mills Adams
October 24, 1874 · Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Dora Mills Adams (October 24, 1874 – July 31, 1943) was an American film actress. She is best known for her appearance in the short film Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde as Mrs. Lanyon. Mills entered the New York film industry near its birth in 1914 and may have been in theatre or vaudeville beforehand. As one of the older and plumper actresses she usually played matriarchal roles. She was married to Lindsey Adams.
Mills died of myocarditis on July 31, 1943, at 485 Rugby Road in Kings County in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 68. She is buried in the Locust Section of Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.
Often works with
James Rennie
2 titles together
His Children's Children, Mighty Lak' a Rose
Dorothy Mackaill
2 titles together
His Children's Children, Mighty Lak' a Rose
Sally Crute
2 titles together
His Children's Children, When Men Betray
Robert Elliott
2 titles together
A Pasteboard Crown, When Men Betray
Hugh Thompson
2 titles together
Ashes of Love, Queen X
Full filmography · 16
How've You Bean?
as Mother of the Groom
1933
Flying Fists
cast
1924
His Children's Children
as Mrs. Rufus Kayne
1923
Mighty Lak' a Rose
as Mrs. Trevor
1923
A Pasteboard Crown
as Claire Morrell
1922
You Find it Everywhere
as Mrs. Normand
1921
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Mrs Lanyon
1920
Piccadilly Jim
as Mrs. Peter Pett
1919
Ashes of Love
cast
1918
When Men Betray
as Mrs. Gardner
1918
Queen X
as Mrs. Evans
1917
Married in Name Only
as Mrs. Francis
1917