Kathlyn Williams
Date of birth: 1879-05-30
Place of birth: Butte, Montana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Kathleen Mabel Williams
Biography
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. 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 Kainer's 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.
Movie Credits
A Single Man
1929-01-12
Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, the
Morals
1921-10-31
Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes
We Can't Have Everything
1918-07-07
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage i
The Cost of Hatred
1917-04-09
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he re
Three Bags of Silver
1914-03-09
The chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the fair
The Flight of the Crow
1913-08-11
Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a ve
Dad's Girls
1911-09-12
Dad, a likable old pioneer character, lived among the foot hills of the western mining region, on a
The Wheels of Justice
1911-09-14
James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former
In Old California When the Gringos Came
1911-05-04
In Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film
The Man from the East
1911-03-16
Jack Manning is a young man, one year out of college. His father, recently died, leaving him a fortu
Our Dancing Daughters
1928-09-01
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie f
Thou Shalt Not Covet
1916-02-07
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first
Honeymoon Flats
1928-04-01
Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl
The Best People
1925-11-09
Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "
The Unwelcome Throne
1913-12-29
Kathlyn Hare, daughter of Col. Hare, a collector of wild animals, is modeling a pet leopard in her a
The Two Ordeals
1914-01-12
Kathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome throne in
The House of His Master
1912-09-09
The blight of Sylvia Steem's otherwise happy young life, is her husband's crave for drink.
A Colonel in Chains
1914-02-23
With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her imprisoned
The Garden of Brides
1914-03-23
The vengeful Umballah, having delivered his three bags of silver and secured Col. Hare as his prison
The Royal Slave
1914-02-09
After Kathlyn's seemingly marvelous escape from the Temple of the Lion, where she almost became a vi
The Cruel Crown
1914-04-06
Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's pala
The Spellbound Multitude
1914-04-20
Kathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to ser
The Warrior Maid
1914-05-14
Kathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big animal
The King's Will
1914-06-01
Fast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution, manage
The Forged Parchment
1914-05-18
The captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in the
Into the Primitive
1916-05-29
American heiress Jennie Leslie, the Honorable Cecil Winthrope, and the alcoholic Thomas Blake are wa
The Thing We Love
1918-02-11
Just prior to America's declaration of war, Margaret Kenwood of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company de
The Adventures of Kathlyn
1916-01-14
Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.
Clarence
1922-10-15
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has ov
The Single Standard
1929-07-27
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
Redeeming Love
1916-12-28
Naomi Sterling and John Bancroft are lovers. The girl loves frivolous things and Bancroft, a divinit
Locked Doors
1925-01-05
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid f
The Whispering Chorus
1918-03-28
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his pla
The U.P. Trail
1920-11-01
Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an India
Unholy Love
1932-06-08
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been
Daddy Long Legs
1931-06-05
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in he
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
1920-11-06
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth an
Trimmed in Scarlet
1923-04-09
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, b
The Adventures of Kathlyn
1913-12-29
The serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn res
Road to Paradise
1930-07-20
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels
Blood Money
1933-11-17
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grif
The World's Applause
1923-01-29
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted a
Big Timber
1917-07-04
Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
A Private Scandal
1921-06-11
A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically i
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1924-08-09
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and
Broadway Gold
1923-01-01
Sunny Duane, a chorus girl, goes out to dinner with Cornelius Fellowes, a wealthy man who is murdere
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935-02-11
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especiall
Forbidden Fruit
1921-01-03
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no r
The Witch of the Everglades
1911-04-26
White Cloud, the war chief of the Seminoles of the Everglades, in the beginning of the last century,
Back to the Primitive
1911-05-10
John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises
The Spanish Dancer
1923-10-06
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells p
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
1911-05-31
Captain Lafitte receives word that Alicante, a young Spaniard, is to wed Dolores, the Rose of St. Au
The Girl at the Cupola
1912-08-07
SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compet
The Two Orphans
1911-09-24
REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the
Captain Kate
1911-07-12
Two caravans meet on the desert, one headed by Howell and Clancy, two New York men, who are gatherin
Lost in the Jungle
1911-10-25
Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morg
Thor, Lord of the Jungles
1913-11-01
John Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa, nea
The Spoilers
1914-04-10
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Go
Hush
1921-03-05
A woman finds her marriage on the rocks after she reveals to her husband some but not all the detail
The Wanderer
1925-08-19
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to
The Enemy Sex
1924-08-25
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing,
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919-09-21
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a
Life on the Border
1911-08-22
Life on the Border is a true story of life in the early days of America. It is the terrible experien
1861
1911-03-30
Those memorable words had just died upon the lips of the grand old general, as he gave Lieutenant Al
Sally in Our Alley
1927-09-02
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an o
Morals
1921-10-31
Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes
Thou Shalt Not
1910-03-03
Laura has already accepted an engagement ring from Edgar when he discovers that he has tuberculosis.
Just a Wife
1920-02-23
Businesswoman Eleanor Lathrop becomes an advisor to Richard Emerson, an ambitious young engineer. He
Chip of the Flying U
1914-08-29
When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as
Sweet Alyssum
1915-11-15
The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams)
We Americans
1928-05-06
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes
A Man's Home
1921-12-18
Frederick Osborn is too busy to tend to his family duties and his wife Frances feels neglected. But
The Leopard's Foundling
1914-06-29
The scene opens on the road to Kingsley as Peter Herman and his wife, Anna, are trekking slowly alon
The Valiants of Virginia
1916-06-26
When his opponent is killed after a duel over the honor of Virginia belle Judith Fairfax John Valian
Wedding Rings
1929-12-29
Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
The Carpet from Bagdad
1915-05-03
Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in
The Better Wife
1919-07-13
Charmian Page has developed a great affection for the child of Sir Richard. When the child is seriou
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909-10-27
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown
When a Girl Loves
1924-04-20
The Tree of Knowledge
1920-01-18
The wicked Belle gets her hands on Nigel Stanyon, a young man who was about to embark on a career as
Her Husband's Women
1929-06-29
Low budget infidelity drama with synchronized sound.
The Prince Chap
1920-08-01
An artist in England is torn between an old flame and the now grown up little girl he has adopted.
The City That Never Sleeps
1924-09-29
Mother O'day, running her saloon after the death of her husband, places her daughter in the care of
The Painted Flapper
1924-10-15
A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the
A Girl Named Mary
1919-12-21
For 15 years, wealthy widow Marise Jaffrey has searched for her daughter Mary, who was taken away as
Single Wives
1924-07-24
As her first wedding anniversary approaches, a young wife begins to believe that her husband doesn't
A Virginia Courtship
1921-12-19
Colonel Fairfax, who lives on a Virginia plantation with his adopted daughter, Prudence, has remaine
Her Purchase Price
1919-09-01
Hamid-Ali, an Arab chieftain and bandit, captures an English baby during a raid on a caravan and, na