Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
3/29/1892
Place of Birth
Columbus, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
Dora Matthews
Doro Merande
Biography
Plain, angular Doro Merande was one of those delightful character actresses you couldn't take your eyes off of, no matter how minuscule the part. She excelled at playing older than she was -- doting aunts, inveterate gossips, curt secretaries and small-minded townspeople -- all topped with an amusing warble in her voice and bristly eccentric edge. Too bad then that she wasn't used more in films, but she preferred live theater and based herself for the most part on the East Coast. She was born Dora Matthews in Kansas in 1892 and orphaned as a child. Growing up in boarding schools, she headed to...
Known For
The Gazebo
as Matilda
The Cardinal
as Picket
Hurry Sundown
as Ada Hemmings
Our Town
as Mrs. Soames
Skidoo
as The Mayor
The Seven Year Itch
as Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)
Kiss Me, Stupid
as Mrs. Pettibone
The Man with the Golden Arm
as Vi
The Snake Pit
as Asylum Patient (uncredited)
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
as Muriel Everett
Bad Boy
as Mrs. Jackson
Change of Habit
as Rose
State Fair
as Mrs. Metcalfe's Acquaintance at Food Contest (Uncredited)
Making It
as Librarian
The Front Page
as Jennie
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
as Miss Haskins
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
as Mrs. Hammer
Zoo in Budapest
as Miss Fennock (uncredited)
Navy Wife
as Nurse Sharpe
Strictly Personal
as Club Member