Personal Info
Birth date
1894-08-09 (130 Years)
Day of death
1978-02-17
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK
Also known as
Katherine Lockhart
Kathleen Arthur
Kathleen Lockhart
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kathleen Lockhart (August 9, 1894 — February 18, 1978) was an English-born stage actress. She was born Kathleen Arthur in Southsea, Hampshire in England. An actress and musician, Kathleen got her start on the stage in England and then immigrated to the United States in 1924, upon her marriage to Canadian-born actor Gene Lockhart. She continued to appear on stage and in Hollywood films for almost forty years. Kathleen and her husband, Gene, occasionally starred opposite each other, most notably as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938). After her husband died in 1957, she retired from acting and made no more film appearances, except for a small role in The Purple Gang (1960). She was the mother of actress June Lockhart and grandmother of actress Anne Lockhart. She died on February 18, 1978 in Los Angeles, California following a long (undisclosed) illness. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard. Her grave is located next to her husband, Gene in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathleen Lockhart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
The Strange Woman
6.1
Overview:
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.The Glenn Miller Story
6.928
Overview:
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.A Christmas Carol
7
Overview:
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.Lady in the Lake
6
Overview:
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.Roughly Speaking
6.8
Overview:
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.Mission to Moscow
5.306
Overview:
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.Plymouth Adventure
5.5
Overview:
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.Walking My Baby Back Home
9
Overview:
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.Something to Sing About
5.912
Overview:
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.Blondie
7.1
Overview:
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.Mother Wore Tights
5.3
Overview:
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.What a Life
NYR
Overview:
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.Confidentially Connie
5.3
Overview:
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.Love Crazy
7.1
Overview:
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.Man of Conquest
5.4
Overview:
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.Sweethearts
5.7
Overview:
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.Lost Angel
7.5
Overview:
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.The Devil Is a Sissy
6.9
Overview:
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.Penrod's Double Trouble
6
Overview:
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.Career Woman
6
Overview:
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.Men Are Such Fools
5.6
Overview:
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.Brides Are Like That
4.8
Overview:
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.The Sickle or the Cross
6
Overview:
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.Our Leading Citizen
NYR
Overview:
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.Are Husbands Necessary?
NYR
Overview:
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly puts them in jeopardy. Liz becomes jealous when George's former girl friend, Myra Ponsonby, comes for a visit with his party-loving friends Bill Stone, Cory Cartwright and Chuck, an artist, after which George spends the entire evening dancing at a nightclub with Myra.I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
6.6
Overview:
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.The Purple Gang
6.3
Overview:
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.Outside These Walls
7.5
Overview:
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.The Good Fellows
NYR
Overview:
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.Acting
1959The Purple Gang as Nun
1954The Glenn Miller Story as Mrs. Miller
1953Walking My Baby Back Home as Mrs. Millard
1953Confidentially Connie as Mrs. Martha Magruder
1952Plymouth Adventure as Mary Brewster
1951I'd Climb the Highest Mountain as Mrs. Brock
1949The Sickle or the Cross as Martha Deems
1947Mother Wore Tights as Mrs. Clarkman (uncredited)
1946Lady in the Lake as Mrs. Grayson
1946The Strange Woman as Mrs. Partridge
1945Bewitched as Mrs. Ellis
1945Roughly Speaking as Henrietta Louise Randall
1943Lost Angel as Mrs. Catty
1943The Good Fellows as Mary Hilton
1943Mission to Moscow as Lady Chilston (uncredited)
1942Are Husbands Necessary? as Laura Atterbury
1941Love Crazy as Mrs. Bristol
1939What a Life as Miss Pike
1939Our Leading Citizen as Mrs. Barker
1939Man of Conquest as Mrs. Allen
1939Outside These Walls as Miss Thornton
1938Sweethearts as Aunt Amelia
1938A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit
1938Blondie as Mrs. Miller
1938Penrod's Double Trouble as Mrs. Schofield
1938Men Are Such Fools as Mrs. Dalton
1937Something to Sing About as Miss Amy Robbins
1936Career Woman as Mrs. Milt Clark
1936Mister Cinderella as Aunt Penelope 'Penny' Winfield
1936The Devil Is a Sissy as Mrs. Murphy
1936Times Square Playboy as Lottie Bancroft
1936Brides Are Like That as Mrs. Ella Robinson
1933Paul Revere, Jr. as Mrs. Standish