SAG/AFTRA
The SAG/AFTRA Spring 2020 bulletin has listed American
actress Dolores Dorn as dying in the last quarter of 2019. She was the co-star
of The Bounty Hunter (1954), Uncle Vanya (1957), Underworld
U.S.A. (1961). and several other films through 1985. On Broadway she was
billed as Dolores Dorn-Heft.
Dorn was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 3, 1933 the daughter of an automobile
dealer in Chicago.
A graduate of the Goodman Art Theatre
in Chicago, she
finished third in the Miss Chicago contest in 1950 and second in the same
contest in 1951. Before appearing in films, Dorn acted with the Shaffner
Players in Illinois, Iowa,
and Missouri.
She appeared in Hide and Seek (1957) on Broadway and in the off-Broadway
production Between Two Thieves.
Dorn had second billing in The Bounty Hunter, a western starring Randolph
Scott in which her character, Julie Spencer, ends up married to Scott's. She
played the wife of Alan Ladd in the actor's last leading-man role in a
Hollywood film, 13 West Street, and was featured as "Cuddles,"
the moll of convict Cliff Robertson, in the crime film Underworld, U.S.A.
Dorn appeared in a number of made-for-TV films and as a guest star in series
such as Ironside, Charlie's Angels, Simon & Simon, Run
for Your Life, and The Untouchables.
DORN, Dolores (Dolores
J. Heft)
Born: 3/3/2933, Chicago, Illinois,
U.S.A.
Died: 2019
Dolores Dorn’s
western – actress:
The Bounty Hunter – 1954 (Julie Spencer)
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