Lester Dorr
Biography
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Lester Dorr (born Harry Lester Dorr; May 8, 1893 - August 25, 1980) was an American actor who between 1917 and 1975 appeared in well over 500 productions on stage, in feature films and shorts, and in televised plays and weekly series. His extensive filmography attests to his versatility as a supporting actor and reliability as a bit player. Although Dorr's screen roles are at times credited, the great majority of his work is uncredited. Dorr was cast in more than 250 films in just the 1930s alone.
Dorr continued to appear regularly in studio productions throughout the 1940s, but with reduced frequency when compared to the preceding decade; nevertheless, he still added more than 140 Hollywood films to his résumé in that decade. His work on the big screen decreased even further in the 1950s as acting opportunities increased on television. He was, though, cast in at least 45 feature films and shorts during the 1950s. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, programming in the rapidly expanding medium of television attracted the talents of many experienced personnel in the film industry, including Dorr.
As with his film career, Dorr’s 15 years of being cast in television series consisted predominantly of brief appearances on screen and portraying characters who had relatively few lines. Yet, his characterizations on television, like in films, were highly diverse and can be seen in at least 84 episodes of Westerns, crime and detective series, courtroom and hospital dramas, adventure programs, and sitcoms of the period.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1893-05-07
Place of birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Cast
Marjorie Morningstar
1958
6.20
Easy Living
1937
7.10
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
3.80
North of Shanghai
1939
0.00
The Bridge of Sighs
1936
6.00
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
5.00
The Officer and the Lady
1941
6.00
The Vicious Circle
1948
5.50
Without Honor
1949
4.53
On the Town
1949
7.00
Tell Your Children
1938
4.30
The Mandarin Mystery
1936
4.77
Bowery Bombshell
1946
6.00
Hitler's Madman
1943
5.27
All Stuck Up
1930
0.00
The Bonnie Parker Story
1958
4.60
Take the High Ground!
1953
5.92
Helldorado
1935
0.00
The House on 56th Street
1933
4.57
Black Gold
1936
5.00
A Tragedy at Midnight
1942
4.70
The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938
6.00
The Firefly
1937
6.40
Hot Rod Gang
1958
4.80
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
5.40
Mary, Mary
1963
4.40
If I Had a Million
1932
6.60
Mr. Wong, Detective
1938
5.47
Hard to Handle
1933
6.90
At Long Last Love
1975
5.12
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
7.78
Love on a Bet
1936
7.00
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
7.40
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
5.70
Star Reporter
1939
3.42
Whispering Smith
1948
6.60
The Crooked Way
1949
6.20
The Masked Marvel
1943
4.80
Flying Disc Man from Mars
1950
4.71
Goodbye Again
1933
4.60
Ten Laps to Go
1936
4.00
Secret Valley
1937
4.00
Hollywood Round-Up
1937
4.40
Exposed
1938
5.00
Mandrake the Magician
1939
5.60
Sunset Murder Case
1938
3.22
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1936
0.00
As the Earth Turns
1934
5.30
Topper
1937
6.71
Hollywood Handicap
1938
4.50
The Dark Past
1948
5.80
Cash and Carry
1937
6.00
Brilliant Marriage
1936
4.50
Hello, Dolly!
1969
7.00
Girls of the Road
1940
5.00
Wells Fargo
1937
5.20
Expensive Husbands
1937
4.80
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
6.10
I Met My Love Again
1938
5.40
The Curtain Falls
1934
5.00
Spendthrift
1936
5.00
Shanghai
1935
6.50
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
6.90
The Personality Kid
1934
3.70
Four Girls in White
1939
6.30
Homicide Bureau
1939
5.33
Wake Island
1942
5.80
Stronger Than Desire
1939
5.14
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
5.50
Journal of a Crime
1934
5.70
Here Comes the Band
1935
5.00
Convict's Code
1939
4.50
Ride 'em, Cowgirl
1939
5.00
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934
6.00
Fast and Loose
1939
5.60
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939
6.71
Boulder Dam
1936
5.00
Gone with the Wind
1939
7.92
Girl from Rio
1939
2.80
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
6.60
Coast Guard
1939
5.00
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
7.83
Dr. Broadway
1942
5.60
Murder at Glen Athol
1936
6.50
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939
4.90
Fast and Furious
1939
4.70
Sued for Libel
1939
5.40
Don't Lie
1942
6.50
Big Town Scandal
1948
5.00
Arson for Hire
1959
5.00
The Preview Murder Mystery
1936
5.60
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939
5.00
Rodeo Dough
1940
5.30
Love Takes Flight
1937
3.00
Danger Ahead
1940
0.00
Missing Witnesses
1937
5.50
East of Eden
1955
7.50
Riders of the Purple Sage
1931
0.00
The Girl from Mandalay
1936
3.00
You Can't Take It with You
1938
7.50
Inherit the Wind
1960
7.67
Dixie Dugan
1943
5.00
One Wild Night
1938
5.50
Postal Inspector
1936
6.20
Show Them No Mercy!
1935
7.00
The Crime Patrol
1936
5.00
The Saint Takes Over
1940
6.40
The Shadow
1940
6.50
Mexican Spitfire
1940
4.60
I Take This Oath
1940
4.30
Below the Deadline
1936
4.40
Going Bye-Bye!
1934
7.40
Hotel
1967
5.91
Money to Loan
1939
6.70
Captains Courageous
1937
7.45
South of Panama
1941
6.00
Joan of Arc
1948
6.10
Pardon My Stripes
1942
6.00
Babes on Broadway
1941
6.50
You Came Along
1945
7.00
Wilson
1944
5.48
Paris Calling
1941
5.40
The Crowd Roars
1938
6.50
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944
5.70
The Big Clock
1948
7.25
The Reluctant Dragon
1941
6.60
Those High Grey Walls
1939
6.20
The Sky Parade
1936
0.00
Way Out West
1937
7.08
Jimmy the Gent
1934
6.30
The Return of Frank James
1940
6.30
The Californian
1937
0.00
Love Is News
1937
6.00
So Your Wife Wants to Work
1956
7.00
The Little Giant
1933
6.80
Ace in the Hole
1951
7.90
That Brennan Girl
1946
5.10
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
4.80
Jailbreak
1936
6.40
Gentleman Jim
1942
7.15
Son of the Navy
1940
5.50
The Heiress
1949
7.70
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
6.60
Red, Hot and Blue
1949
5.80
No, No, Nanette
1940
6.00
Pop Always Pays
1940
0.00
Wide Open Faces
1938
8.50
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
5.67
Central Airport
1933
6.10
Big Business
1937
5.00
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947
0.00
I'll Name the Murderer
1936
4.20
Alias Boston Blackie
1942
5.41
Covered Wagon Raid
1950
5.80
Night Riders of Montana
1951
0.00
Sinner Take All
1936
4.29
Juvenile Court
1938
5.00
Captain Fury
1939
4.90
Cafe Society
1939
6.00
Road to Happiness
1941
5.40
Three Girls About Town
1941
5.30
Killers from Space
1954
3.74
Missile Monsters
1958
3.00
Vice Raid
1959
6.10
Sabotage Squad
1942
6.00
Wolves of the Range
1943
5.30
Remember the Day
1941
6.60
Roar of the Press
1941
5.60
The Jade Mask
1945
6.10
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940
5.40
The Great Rupert
1950
5.68
The Spy Ring
1938
4.50
Straight, Place and Show
1938
6.00
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
4.60
The Great American Mug
1945
6.50
Front Page Woman
1935
5.80
The Secret Code
1942
5.10
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
6.30
The Main Event
1938
0.00
Quicksand
1950
6.00
The Death Kiss
1932
5.10
Mandrake the Magician
1940
5.00
Alias Nick Beal
1949
6.68
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
4.80
Batman
1943
6.37
Destroyer
1943
6.60
Dames
1934
6.40
Torch Singer
1933
5.22
State Police
1938
6.00
Crash Donovan
1936
0.00
Three Secrets
1950
6.40
The Saint in New York
1938
6.40
Fingers at the Window
1942
5.50
The Chaser
1938
6.00
The Canary Comes Across
1938
3.50
Pursued
1947
6.60
The Fountainhead
1949
6.84
Where Danger Lives
1950
6.42
Special Agent
1935
6.20
Streamlined Swing
1938
4.00
Anchors Aweigh
1945
6.80
Newly Rich
1931
3.00
Sailor's Lady
1940
4.00
For Me and My Gal
1942
6.40
Fog Over Frisco
1934
6.20
Born to Gamble
1935
4.80
So You Want to Be Pretty
1956
1.67
Stella Dallas
1937
6.90
Smashing the Vice Trust
1937
0.00
Confessions of a Vice Baron
1943
3.80
Great Guy
1936
6.20
Female
1933
6.15
Union Depot
1932
5.75
Comet Over Broadway
1938
5.00
Criminals of the Air
1937
5.50
Go West Young Man
1936
5.30
You'll Never Get Rich
1941
6.45
Smarty
1934
4.30
Lady in the Dark
1944
4.30
Test Pilot
1938
6.50
California
1947
6.70
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.27
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937
3.80
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
6.80
The President's Mystery
1936
5.30
Hi, Beautiful
1944
9.50
Upperworld
1934
6.30
Silver River
1948
5.90
The Bowery
1933
5.00
Speed to Spare
1937
0.00