# Lottie Williams (actress, born 1874)

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.

## Career

Williams debuted on film in a supporting role in the 1920 silent comedy A Full House. She appeared in over 70 films, mostly in smaller and supporting roles, during her 30-year career.
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; the 1939 melodrama Dark Victory, with Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and George Brent; Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck; the screwball comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, and Monty Woolley; and Edge of Darkness (1942), starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan; 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.

## Filmography

(Per AFI database)
* 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)