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Kathlyn Williams was an American actress, known for her blonde beauty and daring antics, who performed on stage as well as in early silent film. She began her career onstage in her hometown of Butte, Montana, where she was sponsored by local copper magnate William A. Clark to study acting in New York City. She would later appear in numerous films between 1910 and 1932 before retiring from acting. Williams died of a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 81.
Birth Name
Kathleen Mabel Williams
Born
Saturday, 31 May 1879
Died
Friday, 23 September 1960
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Rendezvous at Midnight | Mrs. Arthur Dewey | 1935 |
| Blood Money | Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle | 1933 |
| Unholy Love | Mrs. Bradford | 1932 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| Daddy Long Legs | Mrs. Paula Pendleton | 1931 |
| Road to Paradise | Mrs. Wells | 1930 |
| Wedding Rings | Agatha | 1929 |
| The Single Standard | Mrs. Glendenning | 1929 |
| Our Dancing Daughters | Ann's Mother | 1928 |
| We Americans | Mrs. Bradleigh | 1928 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Rendezvous at Midnight | Mrs. Arthur Dewey | 1935 |
| Blood Money | Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle | 1933 |
| Unholy Love | Mrs. Bradford | 1932 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| Daddy Long Legs | Mrs. Paula Pendleton | 1931 |
| Road to Paradise | Mrs. Wells | 1930 |
| Wedding Rings | Agatha | 1929 |
| The Single Standard | Mrs. Glendenning | 1929 |
| Our Dancing Daughters | Ann's Mother | 1928 |
| We Americans | Mrs. Bradleigh | 1928 |
| Honeymoon Flats | Mrs. Garland | 1928 |
| Sally in Our Alley | Mrs. Gordon Mansfield | 1927 |
| Locked Doors | Laura Carter | 1925 |
| The City That Never Sleeps | Mrs. Kendall | 1924 |
| The Painted Flapper | Isabel Whitney | 1924 |
| The Enemy Sex | Mrs. Massingale | 1924 |
| Wanderer of the Wasteland | Magdalene Virey | 1924 |
| Single Wives | Dorothy Van Clark | 1924 |
| A Virginia Courtship | Constance Llewellyn | 1924 |
| When a Girl Loves | Helen - Michael's Wife | 1924 |
| The Spanish Dancer | Queen Isabel of Bourbon | 1923 |
| Souls for Sables | Herself - Celebrity Actress in Commisary | 1923 |
| Trimmed in Scarlet | Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur | 1923 |
| Souls for Sale | Kathlyn Williams / Herself - Celebrity Actress in Commisary | 1923 |
| The World's Applause | Elsa Townsend | 1923 |
| Clarence | Mrs. Wheeler | 1922 |
| A Man's Home | Frances Osborn | 1921 |
| Morals | Judith Mainwaring | 1921 |
| A Private Scandal | Carol Lawton | 1921 |
| Conrad in Quest of His Youth | Mrs. Adaile | 1920 |
| The Tree of Knowledge | Belle | 1920 |
| The U.P. Trail | 'Beauty' Stanton | 1920 |
| A Girl Named Mary | Mrs. Jaffrey | 1919 |
| Her Kingdom of Dreams | Penelope Warren | 1919 |
| Her Purchase Price | Diana Vane | 1919 |
| The Better Wife | Lady Beverly | 1919 |
| We Can't Have Everything | Charity Coe Cheever | 1918 |
| The Whispering Chorus | Jane Tremble | 1918 |
| The Thing We Love | Margaret Kenwood | 1918 |
| Big Timber | Stella Benton | 1917 |
| The Highway of Hope | Lonely Lou | 1917 |
| The Cost of Hatred | Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves | 1917 |
| Into the Primitive | Jennie Leslie | 1916 |
| The Ne'er Do Well | Mrs. Edith Cortlandt - a Diplomat | 1916 |
| Thou Shalt Not Covet | My Neighbor's Wife | 1916 |
| Sweet Alyssum | Daisy Brooks | 1915 |
| The Rosary | Vera Wallace | 1915 |
| The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte | 1914 |
| The Adventures of Kathlyn | Kathlyn Hare | 1913 |
| Thor, Lord of the Jungles | Gene Brant | 1913 |
| The Girl at the Cupola | Jessie Wilson | 1912 |
| Lost in the Jungle | Meta Kruga | 1911 |
| Captain Kate | Captain Kate | 1911 |
| A Romance of the Western Hills | Second Woman | 1910 |
| Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Extra | 1909 |
