Kathlyn Williams
Actor
Born May 30, 1879 in Butte, Montana, USA
Kathlyn Williams was born Kathleen Mabel Williams on May 31, 1879 in Butte, Montana, and the only child born to Joseph Edwin "Frank" Williams, a boarding house proprietor, and Mary C. Boe (1846–1908) of Welsh and Norwegian descent. Many biographies state her birth year as 1888; however, she is listed on the 1880 United States Census as being a year old. Williams displayed an early interest in becoming an actress in her youth which lead her to become a member of a community thespian group. She also joined the Woman's Relief Corps that allowed her to showcase her vocal prowess at local recitals. Williams began her career with Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago, Illinois and made her first film in 1908 under the direction of Francis Boggs. By 1910, she was transferred to the company's Los Angeles film studio. Williams played "Cherry Malotte" in the first movie based upon Rex Beach's 1906 novel The Spoilers in 1914, a role portrayed in subsequent versions by Betty Compson (1930), Marlene Dietrich (1942), and Anne Baxter (1955). In 1916, she starred in the thirteen episode adventure film serial, The Adventures of Kathlyn. She was busy throughout the silent film era but age and the advent of talkies saw her make only five sound films, the last in 1935. Kathlyn evolved from a comedian and serial player in silents to portraying character roles in the early 1930s.
Filmography
Rendezvous at Midnight
Mrs. Arthur Dewey
Blood Money
Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited)
Unholy Love
Mrs. Bradford
Daddy Long Legs
Mrs. Paula Pendleton
Road to Paradise
Mrs. Wells
Wedding Rings
Agatha
The Single Standard
Mrs. Glendenning
A Single Man
Mrs. Cottrell
Our Dancing Daughters
Ann's Mother
We Americans
Mrs. Bradleigh
Honeymoon Flats
Mrs. Garland
Sally in Our Alley
Mrs. Gordon Mansfield
The Best People
Mrs. Lenox
The Wanderer
Huldah
Locked Doors
Laura Carter
The Painted Flapper
Isabel Whitney
The City That Never Sleeps
Mrs. Kendall
The Enemy Sex
Mrs. Massingale
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Magdalene Virey
Single Wives
Dorothy Van Clark
When a Girl Loves
Helen - Michael's Wife
The Spanish Dancer
Queen Isabel of Bourbon
Souls for Sale
Self - Celebrity Actress in Commisary
Trimmed in Scarlet
Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur
The World's Applause
Elsa Townsend
Broadway Gold
Jean Valjean
Clarence
Mrs. Wheeler
A Virginia Courtship
Constance Llewellyn
A Man's Home
Frances Osborn
Morals
Judith Mainwaring
A Private Scandal
Carol Lawton
Hush
Isabel Dane
Forbidden Fruit
Mrs. Mallory
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Mrs. Adaile
The U.P. Trail
"Beauty" Stanton
The Prince Chap
Alice Travers
Just a Wife
Eleanor Lathrop
The Tree of Knowledge
Belle
A Girl Named Mary
Mrs. Jaffrey
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Penelope Warren
Her Purchase Price
Diana Vane
The Better Wife
Lady Beverly
We Can't Have Everything
Charity Coe Cheever
The Whispering Chorus
Jane Tremble
The Thing We Love
Margaret Kenwood
Lost in Transit
Big Timber
Stella Benton
The Highway of Hope
Lonely Lou
The Cost of Hatred
Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves
Out of the Wreck
Agnes Aldrich
Redeeming Love
Naomi Sterling
The Valiants of Virginia
Shirley Dandridge
Into the Primitive
Jennie Leslie
Thou Shalt Not Covet
My Neighbor's Wife
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Kathlyn Hare
Chip of the Flying U
Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor'
The Leopard's Foundling
Balu
The King's Will
Kathlyn Hare
The Forged Parchment
Kathlyn Hare
The Warrior Maid
Kathlyn Hare
The Spellbound Multitude
Kathlyn Hare
The Spoilers
Cherry Malotte
The Cruel Crown
Kathlyn Hare
Three Bags of Silver
Kathlyn Hare
A Colonel in Chains
Kathlyn Hare
The Royal Slave
Kathlyn Hare
The Two Ordeals
Kathlyn Hare
The Unwelcome Throne
Kathlyn Hare
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Kathlyn Hare
Thor, Lord of the Jungles
Gene Brant
The Flight of the Crow
Edwina Washburn
The House of His Master
Mrs. Robert Steem
The Girl at the Cupola
Jessie Wilson
Lost in the Jungle
Meta Kruga
The Two Orphans
Henriette
The Wheels of Justice
Alice Hazen
Dad's Girls
Rose
Life on the Border
The Pioneer Wife
Captain Kate
Captain Kate
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine
Back to the Primitive
Helen Wilton
In Old California When the Gringos Came
The Witch of the Everglades
Dora - the Witch
The Man from the East
Elsie Dean
Thou Shalt Not
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
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