Donny Everett (1997 - 2016)

Donny Everett (April 16, 1997 – June 2, 2016) was an American baseball pitcher. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he played college baseball for the Vanderbilt Commodores. He was considered one of the top prospects for the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Everett drowned during his freshman season at Vanderbilt. Donny Everett attended Clarksville High School […]

Doo-Ri Kang (1993 - 1970)

Korean Actress. She was best remembered for her appearance in the Korean drama “Insolently Go, Go” (2015). She also appeared in “Three Brothers” (2010), “Scandal: A Shocking And Wrongful Incident” (2013), and “Touch” (2012). She was found dead on December 14, 2015. Initial reports said that she’d been killed in a car accident, but her […]

Dooley Wilson (1886 - 1953)

Dooley Wilson was born in Tyler, Texas, and broke into show business at the age of 12, playing in a vaudeville minstrel show. He sang and played the drums in black clubs in the Tyler area before he moved to Chicago. He received the nickname “Dooley” while working in the Pekin Theatre in Chicago, circa […]

Dora Bryan (1923 - 2014)

Actress. Born Dora May Broadbent, she made her stage debut aged 12 before working with Ensa, the armed forces’ entertainment body, during World War II. After moving to London, she was encouraged to change her surname by Noel Coward while appearing in a production of his play ‘Private Lives’. She went on to play the […]

Dora Carrington (1893 - 1932)

Artist. She was trained at the Sladeschool of Fine Art and designed the wood-cut decorations for Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s first Hogarth publications. She had affairs with the painter Mark Gertler, writer  Gerald Brenan and married Ralph Partridge; but the most important relationship of her life was with  Lytton Strachey. After Strachey’s death she commited […]

Dora Doll (1922 - 2015)

Actress. She enjoyed a lengthy career in French movies and went on to make her mark internationally. Born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg, she moved with her family to Paris during her early youth and made her film debut at the age of sixteen with an uncredited part in “The Curtain Rises” (1938). She may perhaps be […]

Dora Komar (1914 - 2006)

Austrian actress, dancer and singer. She performed on stage in opera and theater, and made five films during the early 1940s. She married and moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1946, ending her film career. (bio by: Rudi Polt)

Dora Mavor Moore (1888 - 1979)

Actress with an award for acting named after her.

Dora Ratjen (1918 - 2008)

A file containing the findings of an investigation conducted in 1938 and 1939 into Ratjen’s life was made public by Der Spiegel in 2009. Dora Ratjen was born in Erichshof, near Bremen, into a family described as “simple folk”. The father, Heinrich Ratjen, stated in 1938: “When the child was born the midwife called over to […]

Dora Van Der Groen (1927 - 2015)

Belgian Actress. Van der Groen was considered one of the greatest actresses in Belgium for her work in television and film. She came from a musical family, but chose to go to the Studio of the National Theatre to learn acting. Van der Groen started her acting career at the Royal Dutch Theatre in Antwerp, […]

Dore Schary (1905 - 1980)

Schary had his first success as a writer when a play he wrote, Too Many Heroes, ran on Broadway for 16 performances in the fall of 1937. He worked in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and in 1938 won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story as co-writer of the screenplay for Boys Town. From 1942 […]

Doreen Hawkins (1919 - 2013)

Actress. A World War II ENSA performer who later appeared in several films, she is perhaps best remembered as the wife of actor Jack Hawkins and as the author of a memoir of her wartime activities. Born Doreen Mary Beadle, she took to the stage early and under the name Doreen Lawrence began her professional […]

Dorian Gray (1936 - 2011)

Actress. She appeared in roughly three dozen Italian film features over a 15 year career. A native of Northern Italy, she was born Maria Luisa Mangini and left few clues about her early life and none to the Oscar Wilde allusion that provided her rather bizarre screen name. She broke into show business with a […]

Dorian Leigh (1917 - 2008)

Dorian Leigh Parker was born in San Antonio, Texas, to George and Elizabeth Parker. Her parents married when they were around 17 or 18 years old and Elizabeth promptly gave birth to three daughters in quick succession: Dorian (1917–2008), Florian (Cissie) (1918–2010), and Georgiabell. Thirteen years after the birth of her last daughter, Elizabeth thought […]

Doris Angleton (1951 - 1997)

Doris Angleton was the first child born to Randy McGown, a Dow Chemical engineer, and his wife, Ann. She grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas, and had one sibling, a younger brother, Steven McGown. She graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in speech pathology. After graduation, she began a career as a […]

Doris Belack (1926 - 2011)

Actress. She is best known for her roles as ‘Anna Wolek’ on the television soap opera “One Life to Live” and Judge Margaret Barry on television crime and court drama “Law and Order”. She also appeared in the 1982 motion picture comedy “Tootsie” and a number of television situational comedies, such as “Barney Miller” and […]

Doris Day (1922 - 2019)

Doris Day Doris Day, the sunny blond actress and singer whose frothy comedic roles opposite the likes of Rock Hudson and Cary Grant made her one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1950s and ’60s and a symbol of wholesome American womanhood, died Monday. She was 97. In more recent years, Day had been an […]

Doris Dowling (1923 - 2004)

Doris Dowling (May 15, 1923 – June 18, 2004) was an American actress of film, stage and television. After her time as a chorus-girl on Broadway, Detroit-born Doris Dowling followed her elder sister Constance to Hollywood. Her first credited film role was that of Gloria, barfly and drinking companion to fellow alcoholic Ray Milland in the […]

Doris Duke (1912 - 1993)

Duke was the only child of tobacco and hydroelectric power tycoon James Buchanan Duke and his second wife, Nanaline Holt Inman, widow of Dr. William Patterson Inman. At his death in 1925, the elder Duke’s will bequeathed the majority of his estate to his wife and daughter, along with $17,000,000, in two separate clauses of […]

Doris Duranti (1917 - 1995)

Actress. Born Dora Durante, she is remembered for her roles in “Aldebaran,” “Under the Southern Cross,” “The King’s Jester,” “The Lion of Damascus” and “The Countess of Castiglione.” After World War II, Doris Duranti fled to South America after being involved with Corrado Pavolini, a Minister in the fascist government of Italian Social Republic led […]

Doris Hare (1905 - 2000)

Doris Hare was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan. Her parents had a portable theatre in South Wales and it seemed inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the age of three in Current Cash and appearing in juvenile troupes all over Britain as a child, before going solo as ‘Little […]

Doris Hollister (1906 - 1990)

Actress. She was a veteran of the silent film era appearing in “The Atheist” (1913), “The Alien” (1913) and “The Brand” (1914). She was also the brother of actor George Hollister Jr. (bio by: John “J-Cat” Griffith) Cause of death: Pneumonia

Doris Kenyon (1897 - 1979)

Doris Kenyon grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at Packer College Institute and later at Columbia University. She sang in the choirs of Grace Presbyterian and Bushwick Methodist […]

Doris Leader Charge (1930 - 2001)

Lakota Sioux Linguist, Actress.  Doris Leader Charge was born on the Rosebud Reservation.  She translated the script for “Dances With Wolves” into Lakota and also appeared in the film as Pretty Shield, wife of Ten Bears.  A special guest at the Academy Awards, she translated screenwriter Michael Blake’s acceptance speech into the Lakota language.  She […]

Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013)

Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran), on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British subjects. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from […]

Doris Lloyd (1896 - 1968)

Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English stage and screen actress. She went to America to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years (1916–25) appearing in Broadway plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent […]

Doris May (1902 - 1984)

Actress. Born Helen Garrett in Seattle, Washington she became a silent screen actress for Paramount Studios in 1921 and had a brief career. She is remembered for her roles in “The Foolish Age” (1921), “Boy Crazy” (1922), and “Gay and Devilish” (1923). She died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81. She was […]

Doris Packer (1904 - 1979)

Doris Packer was born Doris Edwards in Menominee in Menominee County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her family moved to southern California when she was quite young. She became interested in acting while in high school. After attending the University of California at Los Angeles, she moved to New York City to study under […]

Doris Petrie (1970 - 2000)

Canadian Actress. She appeared in the films, “Tek War: TekLords” (1994), “Baby On Board” (1991), “Scanners II: The New Order” (1991), “Kaleidoscope” (1990), “Love And Hate: The Story Of Colin And Joanne Thatcher” (1989), “No Blame” (1988), “Confidential” (1986), “To Set Our House In Order” (1985), “Perry Mason Returns” (1985), “Heartsounds” (1984), “Hot Money” (1983), […]

Doris Roberts (1925 - 2016)

Doris Roberts’ acting career began in 1952 with a role on the TV series Studio One. She appeared in episodes of The Naked City (1958–63), Way Out (1961), Ben Casey (1963), and The Defenders (1962–63). In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild (1961). She appeared in such 1960s and 1970s films as A […]