Kitty Gordon
Actor
- Born
- April 22, 1878 · Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
- Died
- May 28, 1974 (age 96)
From Wikipedia
Her first professional stage appearance was at the Princes Theatre in Bristol in 1901 in the touring production of San Toy. She appeared in The Duchess of Dantzic in 1903 and the operetta Véronique in 1904. In 1909, she moved to New York, where she became a regular on the New York stage.
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She made her first film appearance in 1916 in As in a Looking Glass. During the next three years she made twenty-one films. On 19 October 1911, she starred in the debut of composer Victor Herbert's musical The Enchantress at the New York Theatre. She continued her stage work from 1919 onwards. She also made television appearances.
On 25 June 1920, during a Vaudeville performance in Chicago with her husband, Jack Wilson, and her daughter, Vera Beresford, Gordon's stage gun discharged a live round and shot Joseph A. Hack, an offstage acrobat.
She died in a nursing home in New York in 1974.
Known for
National Red Cross Pageant
December 1, 1917
As in a Looking Glass
March 6, 1916
The Wasp
March 11, 1918
Playthings of Passion
June 8, 1919
Her Hour
November 19, 1917
Beloved Adventuress
July 16, 1917
Her Maternal Right
May 8, 1916
Mandarin's Gold
February 10, 1919
Forget-Me-Not
April 16, 1917
The Volunteer
December 24, 1917
Vera, the Medium
January 4, 1917
Stolen Orders
June 2, 1918
Acting16
- 1919Playthings of Passion as Helen Rowland
- 1919Mandarin's Gold as Betty Cardon
- 1919Adele as Adele Bleneau
- 1918Tinsel as Princess Sylvia Carzoni
- 1918Stolen Orders as Felicia Gaveston
- 1918The Purple Lily as Marie Burguet
- 1918The Wasp as Grace Culver
- 1917The Volunteer as Self - Cameo Appearance
- 1917National Red Cross Pageant as Bruges - Flemish episode
- 1917Her Hour