Kathryn Adams
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Kathryn Adams.
Born: May 24, 1893
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives.
The Vicar of Wakefield
The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.
The Squaw Man
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.
Divorce and the Daughter
A married man suddenly inherits a fortune and finally has enough money to live his dream of becoming an artist. He moves his wife and daughter to a big expensive house and starts living the life of a "bohemian" artist. When he begins an affair with another woman, his wife leaves him and his daughter Alicia breaks off her engagement to a wealthy doctor and becomes involved in the "free love" movement espoused by one Herbert Rawlins. Rawlins, however, has his own plans for Alicia, and they don't involve "sharing" her with anyone else. Complications ensue.
The Man from Downing Street
Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.
The Best of Luck
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affairs with Lord Glenayr (Jack Holt), whom she has never met. She encounters Duke Lanzana (Fred Malatesta), who sees her as a way to pay off his mounting debts. He captures her and then heads to a nearby cape to steal a buried treasure that actually should belong to the MacLeods.
The Long Arm of the Secret Service
The Long Arm of the Secret Service
True Blue
True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst to the daughter of a Western rancher. When he learns that he has inherited his father's title and estate, Brockhurst deserts his wife and young son Bob. Upon attaining adulthood, Bob becomes the boss of his grandfather's ranch.
Borrowed Husbands
A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
The Pursuing Shadow
At a dance given by Earl Dexter, his wife, for the gratification of a whim, wears a beautiful pearl necklace recently purchased by Viscount Acheson. Craig Dare, who is a gentleman thief, makes love to Earl Dexter's wife, and at the same time succeeds in stealing from her the pearl necklace and handing it out of the window of the house to Tony Oscaros, a chauffeur, who is none other than Dexter, who is leading a dual life.
Filmography
as Party Guest
as Fanny Minafer
as Edith Langwell
as Norma Graves
as Daphne Grenvil
as June Dant
as Leslie MacLeod
as Madame de Clermont
as Annette Bossert
as Sylvia Chase
as Mme. Helen Deprenay (as Katherine Adams)
as Lady Evelyn Bazelhurst
as Elsa Clow
as Anne Kepple (as Catherine Adams)
as Lady Mercy Covington
as Judith Wingate
as Masked rider / Millie
as Ruth Merritt
as Gwendolyn - Lord Amersteth's Ward
as Aggie
as Lucille Haines
as Marie
as Marian Caldwell
as Olivia Primrose
as Mrs. Cameron
as Margaret Kenyon
as The Miner's Wife
as Benton's Wicked Wife
as Miriam Starr
as Olga
as Rose Edgerton