Dorothy Granger Movies and Career Information

Dorothy Granger (November 21, 1912—January 4, 1995) was an American actress best known for her roles in short subject comedies in Hollywood. There is some confusion as to the year of Dorothy’s birth. The Social Security Death Index lists it as 1911 as does her death certificate; most biographies say 1912, although at least one site lists the year as 1914. Nineteen twelve is the most likely. Dorothy, with her parents, two brothers, Richard and James, and their grandmother, Clara (Wilcox) Granger, moved to Los Angeles during the late 1920s. Dorothy apparently also had a step brother, named Elmer Cole who later went by the name Stephen Granger, but little is known about him and it is not known whether he went to Los Angeles with them. Some motion picture history sites claim that the Grangers were a vaudeville family of actors and dancers, but that’s doubtful because Danis was well established as the postmaster of New London, Ohio from 1910 until about 1920. He must have gotten the acting “bug,” however, when he built and operated the Karolyn Theater, New London’s first movie house, in 1912. By 1930 he, too, is listed in the Federal census that year as “actor in motion pictures” and