Dorothy Batley

Dorothy Batley was a British actress of the stage and screen, with a notable period as a child actor in the period 1910 to 1916. Both her parents directed films in the period before and during World War I, often featuring Dorothy as the spirited and resourceful child heroine. As a young adult in the post-war years Batley worked as a theatre actress. In 1930 she married the film actor and director Guy Newall. The couple had a daughter, born in 1932, but her husband died in 1937. Batley had returned to the stage by 1941. She resumed her film career after 30 years when she was cast in minor roles in several motion pictures from 1949. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s Batley was cast in a number of minor roles in a various television series.