Dorothy Rockfort

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Dorothy Rockfort
Born
Mildred Dorothy Rochfort

June 17, 1877
Lympstone, England
DiedAugust 28, 1924
Los Angeles, California, USA
OccupationScreenwriter
Years active1914–1920
Spouse William Pigott

Dorothy Rockfort, born Mildred Dorothy Rochfort (June 17, 1877-August 28, 1924), was a screenwriter who worked in Hollywood during the silent era. She primarily worked on short Westerns and serials. She was married to fellow screenwriter William Pigott, who later got involved in real estate after leaving the business. [1]

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Biography

Dorothy was born in England in 1877 to D'Oyly Rochfort and Constance Caley. The family immigrated to the Canada in the 1880s when Dorothy was a girl, [2] and eventually made their way to Sausalito, California, where Dorothy married William Pigott in 1910. [3]

Dorothy and William worked on a number of Western films and serials at Universal during the 1910s; Dorothy's last known screen credit was on 1920's Hair Trigger Stuff . She died in 1924 and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

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