RIP Dolores Dorn

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)