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Dot Farley (1881–1971)

Actress | Writer

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An actress mainly in short comedies; appeared in many Mack Sennett films in the silent era; later became well known for playing Edgar Kennedy's mother-in-Law in his series of domestic comedies for RKO.

Born:

Dorothea Farley
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died:

(age 90) in South Pasadena, California, USA
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1950 The File on Thelma Jordon
Woman Prisoner (uncredited)
 
1948 Contest Crazy (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1948 Home Canning (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1948 Dig That Gold (short)
Mother
 
1948 How to Clean House (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1948 Fighting Father Dunne
Mrs. Monohan (uncredited)
 
1948 No More Relatives (short)
Mother
 
1948 Brother Knows Best (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1947 Mind Over Mouse (short)
Mother
 
1947 Television Turmoil (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1947 Host to a Ghost (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1947 They Won't Believe Me
Emma (uncredited)
 
1947 Heading for Trouble (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Smoke's Secretary (uncredited)
 
1947 Do or Diet (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1946 Social Terrors (short)
Mother
 
1946 I'll Build It Myself (short)
Mother
 
1946 Noisy Neighbors (short)
Mother
 
1946 Motor Maniacs (short)
Mother
 
1946 Wall Street Blues (short)
Mother
 
1946 Trouble or Nothing (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1945 Mother-In-Law's Day (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1945 The Big Beef (short)
Florence's mother
 
1945 It's Your Move (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1945 What, No Cigarettes? (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1945 Sleepless Tuesday (short)
Mother-in-Law
 
1944 Feather Your Nest (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1944 San Fernando Valley
Hattie O'Toole
 
1944 Hail the Conquering Hero
Mother of Mamie (uncredited)
 
1944 Radio Rampage (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1944 Prunes and Politics (short)
Mother-in-law
 
1943 Unlucky Dog (short)
Mrs. Kennedy's Mother
 
1943 Hers to Hold
Wife of Soldier (uncredited)
 
1943 Hot Foot (short)
Mother-in-Law
 
1943 Indian Signs (short)
Mrs. Kennedy's Mother
 
1943 Hold Your Temper (short)
Edgar's Mother-in-Law
 
1942 Duck Soup (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1942 Cat People
Mrs. Agnew (uncredited)
 
1942 Rough on Rents (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1942 Two for the Money (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1942 Cooks and Crooks (short)
Sally's Mother
 
1942 Inferior Decorator (short)
Mrs. Kennedy's Mother
 
1942 Heart Burn (short)
Mrs. Kennedy's Mother
 
1942 Obliging Young Lady
Bird Lover Who Did Paper on Shrikes (uncredited)
 
1941 Look Who's Laughing
Mrs. Mary Blaize (uncredited)
 
1939 $1000 a Touchdown
Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
 
1939 The Women
Large Woman (uncredited)
 
1939 I Stole a Million
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
1938 Lawless Valley
Anna
 
1938 Slander House
Mrs. Willis
 
1938 The Stranger from Arizona
Martha
 
1938 The Road to Reno
Mrs. Brumleigh (as Dorothy Farley)
 
1938 The Purple Vigilantes
Suffrogate (uncredited)
 
1937 A Rented Riot (short)
Errol's Mother-in-Law
 
1937 Rustlers' Valley
Mrs. Anson (uncredited)
 
1937 Wife Insurance (short)
Errol's Mother-in-Law
 
1937 Too Many Wives
Mrs. Potts
 
1937 We Have Our Moments (uncredited)
 
1937 Love Is News
Woman Wanting Steve's Autograph (uncredited)
 
1936 Arizona Mahoney
Woman at Circus (uncredited)
 
1936 Wanted: Jane Turner
Landlady (uncredited)
 
1936 Dummy Ache (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1936 High Beer Pressure (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1936 Will Power (short)
Mother
 
1936 Ring Around the Moon
Bella
 
1936 Gasoloons (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1935 Counselitis (short)
 
1935 Happy Tho' Married (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1935 False Pretenses
Mrs. Smythe
 
1935 Diamond Jim
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1935 In Love at 40 (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1935 Edgar Hamlet (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1935 Tramp Tramp Tramp (short)
Mrs. Clyde
 
1935 Sock Me to Sleep (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1935 South Seasickness (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1935 Brick-a-Brac (short)
Mother
 
1934 Poisoned Ivory (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1934 Fixing a Stew (short)
 
1934 A Blasted Event (short)
Mother
 
1934 Down to Their Last Yacht
Passenger with Diamond Bracelets (uncredited)
 
1934 In-Laws Are Out (short)
Mother
 
1934 Wrong Direction (short)
Edgar's Mother-in-Law
 
1934 Old Maid's Mistake (short)
 
1934 Love on a Ladder (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1934 Love Past Thirty
Dressmaker
 
1934 Bridal Bail (short)
Mrs. Jones - June's Mother
 
1933 Grin and Bear It (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1933 What Fur (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1933 Curtain at Eight
Ella - Party Guest
 
1933 Quiet Please! (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1933 Good Housewrecking (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1933 Torchy Turns Turtle (short)
 
1933 A Merchant of Menace (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1933 Art in the Raw (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1933 Torchy's Kitty Coup (short)
 
1932 Lawyer Man
Client Paying $5,000 Fee (uncredited)
 
1932 Fish Feathers (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1932 Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1932 Trapped in Tia Juana
Aunt Emma
 
1932 The Golf Chump (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1932 Giggle Water (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1932 Torchy's Two Toots (short)
 
1932 While Paris Sleeps
Concierge
 
1932 Mother-in-Law's Day (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1932 Bon Voyage (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1932 Torchy Turns the Trick (short)
 
1931 Law of the Tong
Madam Duval (as Dorothy Farley)
 
1931 Camping Out (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1931 Oh! Marry Me (short)
 
1931 Thanks Again (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1931 Dancing Dynamite
Effie
 
1931 Lemon Meringue (short)
Florence's Mother
 
1931 Chasing Trouble (short)
 
1931 The Dog Doctor (short)
Mrs. Martin
 
1931 Disappearing Enemies (short)
Aunt Molly
 
1931 What a Time (short)
 
1931 One Yard to Go (short)
Mrs. Maison
 
1930 The Third Alarm
Woman Barber
 
1930 Should a Girl Marry?
Mae Reynolds
 
1930 Traffic Tangle (short)
 
1930 Love Your Neighbor (short)
 
1930 Swell People (short)
 
1930 The Little Accident
Mrs.Van Dine
 
1930 Road to Paradise
Lola
 
1930 The Unholy Three
Woman Buying Parrot (uncredited)
 
1930 Radio Kisses (short)
Mr. Bennett's Sweetheart
 
1930 He Trumped Her Ace (short)
Dot
 
1930 Getting a Raise (short)
Secretary
 
1930 Old Vamps for New (short)
 
1930 Harmony at Home
The Modiste
 
1929 Weak But Willing (short)
Claire Finkel
 
1929 Why Leave Home?
Susan
 
1929 Divorce Made Easy
Aunt Emma
 
1929 The Bees' Buzz (short)
Party Guest (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
 
1929 Foolish Husbands (short)
Mrs. Billy Blake
 
1929 Ain't It the Truth (short)
 
1929 Whirls and Girls (short)
The Henpecked Husband's Wife
 
1929/I A Bird in the Hand (short)
The Giddy Widow
 
1929 Calling Hubby's Bluff (short)
Widow Schultz
 
1929 Marquis Preferred
Mrs. Gruger (as Dorothy Farley)
 
1929 Uncle Tom (short)
Minor Role
 
1929 Baby's Birthday (short)
Mrs. Brown
 
1928 Hubby's Weekend Trip (short)
Mrs. Bill Blake
 
1928 The Bargain Hunt (short) (uncredited)
 
1928 Celebrity
Mother
 
1928 Motorboat Mamas (short)
Automobile Passenger (uncredited)
 
1928 His Unlucky Night (short)
Mrs. Trotter
 
1928 The Girl from Nowhere (short)
 
1928 The Head Man
Mrs. Denny
 
1928 The Code of the Scarlet
Widow Malone
 
1928 Black Feather
 
1928 Lady Be Good
Texas West
 
1928 The Bicycle Flirt (short)
The Wife
 
1928 The Garden of Eden
Monte Carlo Telephone Operator (uncredited)
 
1928 Run, Girl, Run (short) (uncredited)
 
1927 The Girl from Everywhere (short)
 
1927 Breakfast at Sunrise
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
 
1927 What Every Iceman Knows (short)
 
1927/I Topsy and Eva (uncredited)
 
1927 The Tired Business Man
Mrs. McGinnis
 
1927 His First Flame
Mrs. Benedict
 
1927 The Climbers
Juana
 
1927 Yours to Command
Ma O'Brien
 
1927 The Lost Limited
 
1927 The King of Kings
Maidservant of Caiaphas
 
1927 All Aboard
Aunt Patsy
 
1927 The Shamrock and the Rose
Mrs. Kelly
 
1927 McFadden's Flats
Bridget Maloney
 
1927 The Overland Stage
Aunt Viney
 
1927 Nobody's Widow
Roxanna's Maid
 
1927 Girl in the Rain
 
1926 Golf Widows (short)
 
1926 The Timid Terror
Mrs. Milliken
 
1926 Young April
Maggie
 
1926 The Family Upstairs
Mademoiselle Clarice
 
1926 Honesty - The Best Policy
Author's Wife (added sequence)
 
1926 So This Is Paris
Madame Moreau (uncredited)
 
1926 Money Talks
Mrs. Chatterton
 
1926 Matrimony Blues (short)
 
1926 The Still Alarm
Mrs. Maloney
 
1926 Brooding Eyes
Marie De Costa
 
1926 The Little Irish Girl
Gertie
 
1926 The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
The Countess Prascovia Avaloff
 
1926 Memory Lane
Maid
 
1926 A Punch in the Nose (short)
 
1925 Lure of the Track
 
1925 A Woman of the World
Mrs. Bierbauer
 
1925 Taming of the Shrewd (short)
 
1925 The Red Kimona
The Inquisitive One
 
1925 The Unchastened Woman
 
1925 Battling Romeo (short)
 
1925 Rugged Water
Mrs. Fuller
 
1925 Mac's Beth (short)
 
1925 Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (short)
Townswoman (uncredited)
 
1925 My Son
Hattie Smith
 
1925 Breaking the Ice (short)
 
1925 Border Intrigue
Tough's Sister
 
1925 The Wild Goose Chaser (short)
 
1924 So Big
Widow Paarlenburg
 
1924 Vanity's Price
Katherine, Vanna's maid
 
1924 The Fatal Mistake
 
1924 Romeo and Juliet (short)
 
1924 The Signal Tower
Cousin Gertie
 
1924 The Enemy Sex
Ida Summers
 
1924 A Self-Made Failure
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1924 Listen Lester
Miss Pink
 
1924 The Mask of Lopez
Townswoman
 
1924 Picking Peaches (short)
A Customer
 
1923 Boy of Mine
Mrs. Pettis
 
1923 The Acquittal
Maid
 
1923 One Cylinder Love (short)
 
1923 Pitfalls of a Big City (short)
 
1923 Tea: With a Kick!
Mrs. Juniper
 
1923 Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? (short)
 
1923 When Knights Were Cold (short) (uncredited)
 
1923 Rob 'Em Good (short)
Lady Maryann Fizzwater
 
1922 Young Sherlocks (short)
Mary Jane's mother
 
1922 Home Made Movies (short)
 
1922 Ma and Pa (short)
 
1922 The Crossroads of New York
Landlady
 
1922 Bright Eyes (short)
Ambitious mother
 
1921 By Heck (short)
 
1921 Love's Outcast (short)
 
1921 Home Talent
 
1921 Astray from the Steerage (short)
Just a mother-in-law
 
1921 Officer Cupid (short)
 
1921 Sweetheart Days (short)
 
1921 The Unhappy Finish (short)
 
1921 A Small Town Idol
Mrs. Smith
 
1920 Bungalow Troubles (short)
 
1920 Fickle Fancy (short)
 
1920 An Arabian Nightmare (short)
 
1920 An Elephant on His Hands (short)
 
1919 Brownie's Doggone Tricks (short)
 
1919 A Lion in the House (short)
 
1919 Howling Lions and Circus Queens (short)
 
1919 Nellie's Naughty Boarder (short)
 
1919 Frisky Lions and Wicked Husbands (short)
 
1919 Good Night, Turk (short)
 
1919 Looney Lions and Monkey Business (short)
 
1918 A Self-Made Lady (short)
Hedda Holliday
 
1918 Shadows of Her Pest (short)
 
1918 A Widow's Camouflage (short)
 
1918 By Heck, I'll Save Her (short)
 
1918 From Caterpillar to Butterfly (short)
 
1918 He Couldn't Fool His Wife (short)
 
1918 Love's Lucky Day (short)
 
1918 Oh, the Women! (short)
 
1918 Rip Roaring Rivals (short)
Nifty Nell
 
1918 The Paperhangers' Revenge (short)
 
1918 The Poor Rich Cleaners (short)
The Cook
 
1918 The Wooing of Coffee Cake Kate (short)
Kate
 
1917 A Milk-Fed Vamp (short)
A Simple Farmer's Daughter
 
1917 The House of Terrible Scandals (short)
 
1916 Inherited Passions
Masie Williams (as Dorothea Farley)
 
1916 Sammy Versus Cupid (short)
 
1915 Sammy's Scandalous Scheme (short)
 
1915 Aunt Matilda Outwitted (short)
 
1915 She Couldn't Get Away (short)
 
1915 The Poor Fixer (short)
 
1915 Louisa's Battle with Cupid (short)
Louisa
 
1915 Her New Yob (short)
 
1915 The Misplaced Twins (short)
 
1915 Pretty Policeman (short)
 
1915 A Woman's Way (short)
 
1915 Wheeled Into Matrimony (short)
 
1915 With Daddy's Aid (short)
 
1915 Buy, Buy Baby! (short)
 
1914 The Big Stick (short)
 
1914 Too Many Wives (short)
 
1914 His Neighbor's Pants (short)
 
1914 The Chaser (short)
 
1914 Finished at Sea (short)
 
1914 Rural Romeos (short)
 
1914 Shot in the Fracas (short)
 
1914 A Mountain Goat (short)
 
1914 Even Unto Death
Dorothea Gordon
 
1914 Soul Mates (short)
 
1914 A Sage Brush Leading Lady (short)
 
1914 The Price of Crime
Dorothea Vale
 
1914 False Pride Has a Fall (short)
Ellen Farley
 
1914 The Toll of the War-Path
 
1914 The Lust of the Red Man (short)
The Settler's Wife (as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 The Daughter of the Tribe (short) (as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 The Unwritten Justice (short) (as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 A Web of Fate (short)
The Rancher's Widow
 
1914 The Trail of the Law (short) (as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 The First Law of Nature (short)
 
1913 Some Nerve (short)
The Wife
 
1913 The Gusher (short)
Party Guest (uncredited)
 
1913 Cohen Saves the Flag (short)
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1913 Fatty Joins the Force (short)
Fatty's Sweetheart (uncredited)
 
1913 Wine (short)
The Woman
 
1913 Miss Fairweather Out West (short)
Miss Fairweather
 
1913 Curing the Doctor (short)
Dorothy Vernon
 
1913 The Shop Girl's Big Day (short)
Dora Thea Rankin - the Shop Girl
 
1913 The Village Pest (short)
Nora Farley
 
1913 The Juvenile Kidnappers (short)
Mary's Mother
 
1913 Dorothea and Chief Razamataz (short)
Dorothea
 
1913 Flirty Florence (short)
Florence
 
1913 Sailing Under False Colors (short)
 
1913 Masquerading in Bear Canyon (short)
 
1913 A Hasty Jilting (short)
Kate's Mother
 
1913 The Frontier Twins' Heroism (short)
Dot
 
1913 The Frontier Twins Start Something (short)
Dot
 
1913 Hubby's Job (short) (unconfirmed - uncredited)
 
1913 Twixt Love and Fire (short) (unconfirmed - uncredited)
 
1913 Algy on the Force (short)
Algy's Sweetheart
 
1913 His Chum the Baron (short)
Party Guest (uncredited)
 
1913 A Fishy Affair (short)
Neighbor
 
1913 Bangville Police (short)
Della's Mother
 
1913 A Dollar Did It (short)
Mrs. Riley
 
1913 Murphy's I.O.U. (short)
Wife
 
1913/I A Life in the Balance (short)
The Landlord's Wife
 
1913 Those Good Old Days (short)
Lady of the Court (uncredited)
 
1913 Hide and Seek (short)
The Woman in the Hat
 
1913 On His Wedding Day (short)
The Bride
 
1913 A Wife Wanted (short)
Dot - Mail Order Bride
 
1913 Love and Pain (short)
Ethel
 
1913 The Man Next Door (short)
Meyer's Wife
 
1913 The Two Widows (short)
1st Widow
 
1913 A Strong Revenge (short)
Party Guest
 
1913 The Rural Third Degree (short)
Si's Bride
 
1913 A Deaf Burglar (short)
A Neighbor
 
1913 The Power of Civilization (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1912 At the Basket Picnic (short)
Dave's Mother (unconfirmed)
 
1912 Raiders of the Mexican Border (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1912 Regeneration (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1912 Peril of the Plains
Eliza - the Mother
 
1912 The Wordless Message (short)
 
1912 The Plucky Ranch Girl (short)
 
1912 A Gypsy's Love (short)
Leila, the Gypsy Girl
 
1911 The Ranchman's Vengeance (short)
Marie
 
1911 Crazy Gulch (short)
 
1911 Bud Nevins, Bad Man (short)
Riley's daughter
 
1911 Reddy's Redemption (short)
The Charitable Young Woman
 
1911/II The Harem Skirt (short)
 
1911 Do You Know This Woman? (short)
The wife
 
1911 Hypnotizing a Hypnotist (short)
 
1911 A Pittsburgh Millionaire (short)
Mrs. Philip Nash
 
1911 The Genius (short)
 
1911 Mrs. Gay Life's Visitors (short)
Steena Iverson
 
1910 A Troublesome Parcel (short)
Mabel Vanastorbilt
 
1910 Her Husband's Deception (short)
The Doctor's Wife
 
1910 The Rummage Sale (short)
 
1910 Starlight's Devotion (short)
Starlight
 
1910 Romantic Redskins (short)
 
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1916 Inherited Passions (scenario / as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 The Big Stick (short) (story)
 
1914 Too Many Wives (short) (story)
 
1914 His Neighbor's Pants (short) (story)
 
1914 The Chaser (short) (story)
 
1914 Finished at Sea (short) (story)
 
1914 Rural Romeos (short) (story)
 
1914 Shot in the Fracas (short) (story)
 
1914 A Mountain Goat (short) (story)
 
1914 Soul Mates (short) (story)
 
1914 A Sage Brush Leading Lady (short) (story)
 
1914 Reuben's Busy Day (short) (story)
 
1914 The Price of Crime (story)
 
1914 The Toll of the War-Path (story)
 
1914 The Lust of the Red Man (short)
 
1914 The Daughter of the Tribe (short) (story / as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 The Unwritten Justice (short) (story / as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 A Web of Fate (short) (story)
 
1914 The Trail of the Law (short) (story / as Dorothea Farley)
 
1914 The First Law of Nature (short) (story)
 
1912 A Gypsy's Love (short) (scenario)
 
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1948 Variety Time
Edgar's Mother-in-Law (from "I'll Build It Myself")
 
1939 A Small Town Idol (short)
Mrs. Smith
 

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Personal Details

Alternate Names:

Dorothea Farley | Dorothy Farley | Mrs. Farley

Height:

5' 5" (1.65 m)
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Trivia:

An actress mainly in short comedies; appeared in many Mack Sennett films in the silent era; later became well known for playing Edgar Kennedy's mother-in-Law in his series of domestic comedies for RKO. See more »

Star Sign:

Aquarius