Doro Merande

Acting

Doro Merande

Born 1892-03-29 Columbus, Kansas, USA 27 films

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…

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Filmography

27 films
The Front Page poster

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top repor…

The Front Page

★ 7.3 1974

Making It poster

A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-cente…

Making It

★ 4.3 1971

Skidoo poster

Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow…

Skidoo

★ 4.7 1968

Hurry Sundown poster

A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several t…

Hurry Sundown

★ 6.4 1967

The Cardinal poster

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he…

The Cardinal

★ 6.5 1963

The Gazebo poster

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the…

The Gazebo

★ 6.9 1959