Dorothy DeBorba

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Dorothy DeBorba

born: 28 March 1925
Los Angeles, California,
United States of America

died: 02 June 2010
Walnut Creek, California,
United States of America
(emphysema and lung disease, age 85)

Cute, brown-haired American child actress who debuted in the Our Gang comedies in 1930 as "Echo". Originally cast by Hal Roach for her ability to cry on cue. Retired from films in 1933, and later worked as a secretary at Republic Pictures and as a clerk for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her mother, Lillian DeBorba, can be seen briefly as one of the theatre extras in Sons Of The Desert.

Real name: Dorothy Adelle DeBorba

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography;
plus "The Stolen Jools" (with Laurel & Hardy).

1930	Pups Is Pups Dorothy ("Echo")
1930	Teacher's Pet Dorothy ("Echo")
1930	School's Out Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Helping Grandma Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Love Business Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Little Daddy Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Bargain Day Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Fly My Kite Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Big Ears Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Shiver My Timbers Dorothy ("Echo")
1931	Dogs Is Dogs Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	Readin' And Writin' Dorothy
1932	Free Eats Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	Choo-Choo! Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	Spanky Dorothy ("Echo")/ Little Eva
1932	The Pooch Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	Hook And Ladder Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	Free Wheeling Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	Birthday Blues Dorothy ("Echo")
1932	A Lad An' A Lamp Dorothy ("Echo")
1933	Fish Hooky Dorothy
1933	Forgotten Babies Dorothy ("Echo")
1933	The Kid From Borneo Dorothy ("Echo")
1933	Mush And Milk Dorothy ("Echo")

▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS

1931

The Stolen Jools
Dorothy ("Echo")

This page was last updated on: 07 September 2021