Kathryn Adams
American actress (1893-1959) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 65
Kathryn Adams, sometimes credited as Catherine Adams or Katherine Adams, was an American actress. She began her career in 1911 working as a chorus girl in the Chicago production of Addison Burkhardt's hit musical Louisiana Lou which starred Sophie Tucker.
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The Squaw ManFilm, Party Guest1925
Pampered YouthFilm, Fanny Minafer1924
Borrowed HusbandsFilm, Edith Langwell1922
The Man from Downing StreetFilm, Norma Graves1921
The Silver CarFilm, Daphne Grenvil1920
Big HappinessFilm, June Dant
The Forbidden WomanFilm, 1920Madame de Clermont1919
A Gentleman of QualityFilm, Lady Mercy Covington1918
Riders of the Purple SageFilm, Masked rider / Millie1917
Baby MineFilm, Aggie
The Woman and the BeastFilm, 1917Marie1916
A Bird of PreyFilm, The Miner's Wife1915
After DarkFilm, Rose EdgertonHeléne of the NorthFilm, 1915Miss Cadwell1893Born25 May 1893People around Kathryn
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Edwin Thanhouser Produced Divorce and the Daughter (1916)
Frank Lloyd Directed Riders of the Purple Sage and True Blue
Ernest C. Warde Directed The Vicar of Wakefield (1917)
William Parke Directed The Streets of Illusion
J. Searle Dawley Directed Helene of the North (1915)
Earle Williams Also in A Rogue's Romance (1919)
Marguerite Clark Also in Helene of the North (1915)
Gladys Hulette Also in The Streets of Illusion
Kathryn Adams Doty Also in Saboteur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Thomas A. Curran Also in Bubbles in the Glass (1916)
Tula Belle Also in A Bird of Prey (1916)
Alfred Hitchcock Directed Saboteur (1942)
Cecil B. DeMille Directed The Squaw Man (1931)
Frank Borzage Directed Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Baby Mine (1917)
Alice Guy-Blaché Produced The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915)
William Fox Produced True Blue (1918)
Evelyn Brent Also in The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915)
Dustin Farnum Produced Big Happiness (1920)
Albert E. Smith Produced A Rogue's Romance (1919)
William Scott Also in Riders of the Purple Sage and True Blue
J. Morris Foster Also in Bubbles in the Glass (1916)
Jack Cunningham Wrote Big Happiness and The Silver Girl
Marc Robbins Also in True Blue and Riders of the Purple Sage
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About this person
She went to New York City to pursue training as a singer, and appeared in DeWolf Hopper's musical Hop o' My Thumb in the 1913-1914 season. She began her silent film career in 1915 working for Tom Terriss on The Pursuing Shadow, and that same year became a leading lady with first Metro Pictures and then the Thanhouser Company. She made numerous films with Thanhouser between 1915-1917, and worked with a variety of film companies thereafter. She became a supporting actress in the 1920s, and her silent film career ended in 1925. She made one sound film, making a minor uncredited appearance in the film The Squaw Man (1931).
