Kathlyn Williams actress
- Total known movies 77
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 Womans 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 companys Los Angeles film studio. Williams played Cherry Malotte in the first movie based upon Rex Beachs 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.Williams was married three times. Although many biographies erroneously cite her first husband as being Victor Kainer, he was in fact named Otto H. Harry Kainer (1876–1952), who ran an import and export business on Wall Street in New York City. They were wed on October 2, 1903, and their son, Victor Hugo, was born in 1905. They supposedly divorced over Kainers disapproval of his wife having an acting career, and Williams subsequently obtained a divorce from Kainer in 1909 in Nevada. On March 4, 1913, she married Frank R. Allen, also an actor, but the marriage was a failure from the start and lasted a little over a year. On June 30, 1914, she filed for divorce in Los Angeles and listed desertion as the reason as the failure of their marriage. She later married Paramount Pictures executive Charles Eyton on June 2, 1916, in Riverside, California. The Eytons eventually divorced in 1931.On December 29, 1949, Williams was involved in a deadly automobile accident, which claimed the life of her friend, Mrs. Mary E. Rose, while they were returning home from a social engagement in Las Vegas. As a result of the accident, Williams lost her right leg. On April 8, 1950, Williams sued the estate of Rose for $136,615, citing negligence and claiming that the automobile had inefficient brakes. In June 1951, Williams accepted the offer of $6,500 dollars from the Rose estate. Kathlyn Williams died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California in 1960.For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kathlyn Williams has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7038 Hollywood Blvd.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Mrs. Cottrell
Movie 1929
Judith Mainwaring
Movie 1921
Charity Coe Cheever
Movie 1918
Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves
Movie 1917
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Edwina Washburn
Movie 1913
Rose
Movie 1911
Alice Hazen
Movie 1911
Movie 1911
Elsie Dean
Movie 1911
Ann's Mother
Movie 1928
My Neighbor's Wife
Movie 1916
Mrs. Garland
Movie 1928
Mrs. Lenox
Movie 1925
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1913
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Mrs. Robert Steem
Movie 1912
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1914
Jennie Leslie
Movie 1916
Margaret Kenwood
Movie 1918
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1916
Mrs. Wheeler
Movie 1922
Naomi Sterling
Movie 1916
Laura Carter
Movie 1925
Jane Tremble
Movie 1918
"Beauty" Stanton
Movie 1920
Mrs. Bradford
Movie 1932
Mrs. Paula Pendleton
Movie 1931
Mrs. Adaile
Movie 1920
Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur
Movie 1923
Kathlyn Hare
Movie 1913
Mrs. Wells
Movie 1930
Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Elsa Townsend
Movie 1923
Stella Benton
Movie 1917
Self - Celebrity Actress in Commisary
Movie 1923
Carol Lawton
Movie 1921
Magdalene Virey
Movie 1924
Jean Valjean
Movie 1923
Mrs. Arthur Dewey
Movie 1935
Mrs. Mallory
Movie 1921
Dora - the Witch
Movie 1911
Helen Wilton
Movie 1911
Queen Isabel of Bourbon
Movie 1923
Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine
Movie 1911
Jessie Wilson
Movie 1912
Henriette
Movie 1911
Captain Kate
Movie 1911
Meta Kruga
Movie 1911
Gene Brant
Movie 1913
Cherry Malotte
Movie 1914
Isabel Dane
Movie 1921
Huldah
Movie 1925
Mrs. Massingale
Movie 1924
Penelope Warren
Movie 1919
The Pioneer Wife
Movie 1911
Movie 1911
Mrs. Gordon Mansfield
Movie 1927
Movie 1921
Movie 1910
Eleanor Lathrop
Movie 1920
Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor'
Movie 1914
Daisy Brooks
Movie 1915
Mrs. Bradleigh
Movie 1928
Frances Osborn
Movie 1921
Balu
Movie 1914
Movie 1916
Agatha
Movie 1929
Fortune Chedsoye
Movie 1915
