Doro Merande
Acting
Born: 1892-03-29 · Columbus, Kansas, USA
Died: 1975-11-01
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 Do
🎬 Movies (20)
The Front Page
1974
Jennie
Making It
1971
Librarian
Change of Habit
1969
Rose
Skidoo
1968
The Mayor
Hurry Sundown
1967
Ada Hemmings
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966
Muriel Everett
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964
Mrs. Pettibone
The Cardinal
1963
Picket
The Gazebo
1959
Matilda
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1959
Miss Haskins
If You Knew Elizabeth
1957
Mrs. Adolph
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Vi
The Seven Year Itch
1955
Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
1951
Miss Pringle
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
1951
Mrs. Hammer
Cover Up
1949
Hilda
The Snake Pit
1948
Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Our Town
1940
Mrs. Soames
Bad Boy
1935
Mrs. Jackson
Navy Wife
1935
Nurse Sharpe
