Lottie Williams
Lottie Williams | |
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 Williams in 1920 | |
| Born | January 20, 1874 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| Died | November 16, 1962 (aged 88) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1920–1949 |
Lottie Williams (January 20, 1874 – November 16, 1962) was an American character actress whose career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.
Early life[]
Lottie Williams was born on January 20, 1874 in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1]
Career[]
She began her career on the stage and appeared in Broadway productions during the 1900s. Williams debuted on film in a supporting role in the 1920 silent comedy, A Full House. She went on to appear in over 70 films, mostly in smaller and supporting roles, during her 30-year career.[2]
Some of the more notable films in which she appeared include: Michael Curtiz' Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien;[3] the 1939 melodrama Dark Victory, with Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and George Brent;[4] Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck;[5] the screwball comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, and Monty Woolley;[6] and Edge of Darkness (1942), starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan;[7] Her final appearance would be in a supporting role in 1949's One Last Fling, starring Alexis Smith and Zachary Scott, after which she retired from the film industry.
Death[]
Williams died on November 16, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, and was cremated and interred at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.[1]
Filmography[]
- A Full House (1920)
- Twin Beds (1920)
- All Soul's Eve (1921)
- Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
- The Veiled Woman (1922)
- The Barefoot Boy (1923)
- Yesterday's Wife (1923)
- The Tomboy (1924)
- The Country Beyond (1926)
- Arizona Nights (1927)
- Strictly Modern (1930)
- Wonder Bar (1934)
- 6 Day Bike Rider (1934)
- Elinor Norton (1934)
- Registered Nurse (1934)
- Anthony Adverse (1936)
- The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
- I Married a Doctor (1936)
- Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
- The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
- Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
- That Man's Here Again (1937)
- The Cherokee Strip (1937)
- Submarine D-1 (1937)
- The Great O'Malley (1937)
- Empty Holsters (1937)
- The Beloved Brat (1938)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
- The Sisters (1938)
- Nancy Drew... Detective (1938)
- Love, Honor and Behave (1938)
- Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
- Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) (uncredited)
- King of the Underworld (1939) (uncredited)
- Dark Victory (1939) as Lucy
- On Trial (1939)
- No Place to Go (1939)
- Off the Record (1939)
- Blackwell's Island (1939)
- Espionage Agent (1939)
- Four Wives (1939)
- Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
- Private Detective (1939)
- Money and the Woman (1940)
- Dancing on a Dime (1940)
- A Fugitive from Justice (1940)
- Ladies Must Live (1940)
- Calling All Husbands (1940)
- Always a Bride (1940)
- The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
- An Angel from Texas (1940)
- The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
- The Nurse's Secret (1941)
- Passage from Hong Kong (1941)
- One Foot in Heaven (1941)
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Fan at train station (uncredited)
- All Through the Night (1942)
- Busses Roar (1942)
- Edge of Darkness (1943)
- The Gorilla Man (1943)
- Mr. Skeffington (1944)
- Hotel Berlin (1945)
- One More Tomorrow (1946)
- Shadow of a Woman (1946)
- Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
- Nora Prentiss (1947)
- The Big Punch (1948)
- June Bride (1948)
- To the Victor (1948)
- A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
- One Last Fling (1949)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Lottie Williams". Find a Grave. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Lottie Williams". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Angels with Dirty Faces". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Dark Victory". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Meet John Doe". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "The Man Who Came to Dinner". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Edge of Darkness". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
External links[]
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- Lottie Williams at IMDb
- Lottie Williams at the Internet Broadway Database
- Lottie Williams at the TCM Movie Database
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- American film actresses
- American silent film actresses
- 20th-century American actresses
- Actresses from Indianapolis
- 1874 births
- 1962 deaths
- Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory