Dorothy West (actress)

Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, as well as a radio performer.

She later relocated to Hollywood with a group of D.W. Griffith stars that included Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard, Florence Barker, and Mack Sennett in 1909.

[1] West returned to film several years later and received positive notice for her work in Griffith's His Mother's Scarf (1911)[5] Swords and Hearts (1911)[6] and The Eternal Grind (1916),[7] then left films again to tour in theatre productions in Europe after World War I with the American Army of Occupation,[1] including in Germany.

[8] She also worked on Broadway[9] and with a theatre company called The Triangle Players.

[10] She performed in the short play Sintram of Skaggerack by Sada Cowan in 1923.