Dorothy West

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

West and Henry B. Walthall in The House with Closed Shutters, a 1910 Civil War drama directed by D. W. Griffith

Early life Dorothy West grew up in Huntsville, Alabama.

Career West was a star in Biograph silent films in New York. 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. West, Pickford, Pickford's brother Jack, and Effie Johnson boarded together. She also performed in theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Swords and Hearts (1911) and The Eternal Grind (1916), then left films again to tour in theatre productions in Europe after World War I with the American Army of Occupation,

She also worked on Broadway and with a theatre company called The Triangle Players. She performed in the short play Sintram of Skaggerack by Sada Cowan in 1923.

She made her radio debut in 1928. Heart Beats of Long Ago (1911) His Mother's Scarf (1911) Swords and Hearts (1911) The Habit of Happiness (1916) The Eternal Grind (1916)