Dorothea Wolbert

born: 12 April 1874 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

died: 15 September 1958 Hollywood, California, United States of America (arterieosclerosis, age 84)

Short American actress who had a 20-year career on the stage and supporting roles in feature length films and her own series of 1-reel comedies before starting work in Harold Lloyd comedies in 1917 at the ripe old age of 43.  Her long career continued into TV roles until the year before she died.

Real name: Julia Dorothea Mintzer Height: 5'0"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography; plus 2 films with Babe Hardy.

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1917 Lonesome Luke, Lawyer [unidentified character]   1917 Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke's Lively Life [unidentified character]   1917 Lonesome Luke On Tin Can Alley [unidentified character]   1917 Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon [unidentified character]   1917 Lonesome Luke, Messenger Bespectacled school mistress 1917 Lonesome Luke, Mechanic [unidentified character]   1917 Over The Fence [unidentified character]   1917 Lonesome Luke's Wild Women [unidentified character]   1917 Pinched [unidentified character]   1917 By The Sad Sea Waves Old maid bather in shower   1917 Lonesome Luke In Birds Of A Feather [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke In From London To Laramie [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke In Love, Laughs And Lather [unidentified character]   1917 All Aboard [unidentified character]   1917 Lonesome Luke In We Never Sleep [unidentified character]   1917 Bashful Cook   1917 Step Lively [unidentified character]   1918 The Tip [unidentified character]   1918 The Big Idea Old maid with XX skirt 1918 The Lamb [unidentified character]   1918 Beat It [unidentified character]   1918 A Gasoline Wedding [unidentified character]   1918 Look Pleasant, Please Old maid customer   1918 Here Come The Girls [unidentified character]   1918 Let's Go Sleeping woman 1918 On The Jump [?] 1918 Follow The Crowd [?] 1918 Pipe The Whiskers [?] 1918 It's A Wild Life Diner 1918 Hey There! [?] 1918 Kicked Out [?] 1918 The Non-Stop Kid Party guest 1918 Two-Gun Gussie Admirer 1918 Fireman, Save My Child Dancer 1918 The City Slicker [?] 1918 Sic 'Em, Towser [unidentified character]   1918 Somewhere In Turkey [unidentified character]   1918 Are Crooks Dishonest? Old lady in the park 1918 Bride And Gloom [?] 1918 Bees In His Bonnet [?] 1918 Swing Your Partners [?] 1918 No Place Like Jail [unidentified character]   1918 Hear 'Em Rave [unidentified character]   1918 Just Rambling Along Diner (sitting next to Marie Mosquini) 1918 She Loves Me Not [unidentified character]   1919 Do You Love Your Wife? Hotel guest 1919 Hustling For Health [unidentified character]   1919 Ask Father [unidentified character]   1919 On The Fire Diner 1919 Hoot Mon! [unidentified character]   1919 I'm On My Way [unidentified character]   1919 The Dutiful Dub [unidentified character]   1919 Next Aisle Over Maid on street 1919 Crack Your Heels [?] 1919 Ring Up The Curtain Thin actress 1919 Young Mr. Jazz [unidentified character]   1919 Si, Senor [unidentified character]   1919 Before Breakfast [?] 1919 The Marathon Rich girl's mother   1919 Pistols For Breakfast [unidentified character]   1919 Swat The Crook [unidentified character]   1919 Off The Trolley Landlady 1919 At The Old Stage Door [unidentified character]   1919 Never Touched Me [?] 1919 Count Your Change Landlady 1920 Haunted Spooks [?] 1920 An Eastern Westerner Harold's mother 1921 I Do Friendly neighbor 1923 Safety Last! Picky fabric customer 1927 The Battle Of The Century Warring pedestrian   1928 Barnum & Ringling, Inc. Cleaning lady 1928 The Fight Pest [?] 1928 Their Purple Moment Gossip 1928 Two Tars Motorist   1935 Vagabond Lady Woman given opera ticket

▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS

1919 Jazz And Jailbirds [unidentified character]   1923 The Gown Shop Audience member Acknowledgements: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6C4-14R https://archive.org/stream/10thcensus0123unit#page/n527/mode/1up (1880 Census, line 29) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ2V-F54 (marriage) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQK-9WG (1920 Census) https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturestu00moti_0#page/n282/mode/1up/search/wolbert (1920 Directory) https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturestu00johnrich#page/245/mode/1up (1921 Directory) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FFRS-PJY https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159366-9831-37?cc=1618491 (son's marriage) https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew1929moti#page/220/mode/1up/search/wolbert (1929 Blue Book) https://www.archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew1930moti#page/288/mode/1up/search/wolbert (1930 Blue Book) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CD-5Z7 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-27797-2752-65?cc=2000219 (1940 Census, line 80) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPDR-ZJG (CA Death Index #1) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP6D-55C (CA Death Index #2) Jesse Brisson (help and information; identification in Just Rambling Along, Safety Last!, and The Non-Stop Kid) Jim Jarvis (bio) Jim Clewer (screenshot - Two-Gun Gussie) Steve Rydzewski (identification in Barnum & Ringling, Inc.) This page was last updated on: 06 August 2024