Kathleen Burke was an American movie actress of the 1930s.

Burke worked as a dental assistant in Chicago, before winning a talent contest sponsored by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

. Her film debut was as Lota, the "Panther Woman" in Island of Lost Souls

Island of Lost Souls (1933 film)

Island of Lost Souls is an American science fiction horror film starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi and Kathleen Burke as The Panther Woman. Produced by Paramount Pictures in 1933 from a script co-written by science fiction legend Philip Wylie, the movie was the...

(1933), the first screen version of H.G. Wells's novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.

This success led to more than a score of screen appearances over the following seven years, most notably as the leading lady in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious...

(1935) opposite Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...

, and The Last Outpost

The Last Outpost (1935 film)

The Last Outpost is a 1935 film directed by Charles Barton and produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon. It starred Cary Grant and Claude Rains. Both Grant's and Rains' character find an interest in a woman played by Gertrude Michael, creating tension between the two close friends, who are both British...

with Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...

 that same year. Her final film role was in 1938, whereupon she retired from screen acting at the age of 25.

Filmography

• Island of Lost Souls
  Island of Lost Souls (1933 film)
  Island of Lost Souls is an American science fiction horror film starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi and Kathleen Burke as The Panther Woman. Produced by Paramount Pictures in 1933 from a script co-written by science fiction legend Philip Wylie, the movie was the...
  
  (1932)
• Murders in the Zoo
  Murders in the Zoo
  Murders in the Zoo is 1933 horror film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller. Considered particularly dark for it's time, film critic Leonard Maltin has called the film "Astonishingly grisly".-Plot:...
  
  (1933)
• Sunset Pass
  Sunset Pass
  Sunset Pass is a 1933 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars Randolph Scott and Tom Keene. -Cast:*Randolph Scott as Ash Preshton*Tom Keene as Jack Rock / Jim Collins*Kathleen Burke as Jane Preston*Harry Carey as John Hesbitt...
  
  (1933)
• Torch Singer
  Torch Singer
  Torch Singer is a 1933 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners and Lyda Roberti.The screenplay was written by Lenore J...
  
  (1933)
• The Mad Game (1933)
• Six of a Kind
  Six of a Kind
  Six of a Kind is a 1934 comedy film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a whimsical and often absurd Road movie about three couples who decide to share their expenses on a trip to Hollywood.-Cast:*Charles Ruggles*Mary Boland*George Burns*Gracie Allen...
  
  (1934)
• Good Dame (1934)
• School for Girls (1934)
• Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
  Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
  Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young.-Plot:...
  
  (1934)
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious...
  
  (1935)
• Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)
• Mutiny Ahead (1935)
• The Awakening of Jim Burke (1935)
• Navy Wife
  Navy Wife
  Navy Wife is a 1956 comedy film directed by Edward Bernds , and starring Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill, Shirley Yamaguchi...
  
  (1935)
• The Last Outpost
  The Last Outpost (1935 film)
  The Last Outpost is a 1935 film directed by Charles Barton and produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon. It starred Cary Grant and Claude Rains. Both Grant's and Rains' character find an interest in a woman played by Gertrude Michael, creating tension between the two close friends, who are both British...
  
  (1935)
• Nevada (1935)
• The Lion Man
  The Lion Man
  The Lion Man was a New Zealand television documentary series about a New Zealand big cat park called Zion Wildlife Gardens. The series was named after the Lion Man, Craig Busch, the park's founder, and followed him and his staff as they managed the park and its collection of approximately 30 lions...
  
  (1936)
• Craig's Wife
  Craig's Wife (film)
  Craig's Wife is a 1936 drama film starring Rosalind Russell as a domineering wife. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play of the same name by George Kelly , and directed by Dorothy Arzner...
  
  (1936)
• The Sheik Steps Out (1937)
• Boy of the Streets (1938)
• Rascals (1938)

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