Actress
Silent-screen actress.
Blonde silent screen actress, from the musical stage. Appeared in vamp-ish roles from 1915 in films for Metro and Pathe.
Husband Hugh Beaumont ("Ward Cleaver" of "Leave It to Beaver" ) died suddenly while visiting their son, Hunter, a psychology professor in Munich, Germany.
After leaving acting to marry and raise three children with Hugh Beaumont , she taught school, earned a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology, became a licensed psychologist and after retirement returned to her first love-writing. She published two books, "A Long Year of Silence" and "Wild Orphan" through Edinborough Press and is scheduled to release her memoirs in the Fall of 2007.
Retired from films after marrying Hugh Beaumont in 1942, but returned once to co-star with him in the film Blonde for a Day .
Lives in Mankato, Minnesota, USA with her husband, Fred Doty.
Kathryn Adams Doty, an actress best known for her supporting role in Alfred Hitchcocks "Saboteur," died on Friday, October 14, 2016. She was 96. Kathryn Adams Doty was born July 15, 1920, in New Ulm, Minnesota, and began working in Hollywood in the late 1930s after competing in a radio contest called "Gateway to Hollywood." She began using the stage name Kathryn Adams and scored her first screen part in 1939s "Fifth Avenue Girl," starring Ginger Rogers. She married fellow actor Hugh Beaumont, (who was Ward Cleaver in "Leave It to Beaver"), in 1942, and also nabbed the role that she is perhaps most well-known for, that of a young mother named Mrs. Brown in Hitchcocks "Saboteur." With Beaumont, she had three children. Her final film acting part was in 1946 as Phyllis Hamilton in "Blonde for a Day," in which she starred alongside Beaumont. The couple divorced in 1974. Kathryn later married Fred Doty, who died in 2011. After retiring from acting, Kathryn worked as a teacher and a psychologist. She also wrote two novels, "A Long Year of Silence" and "Wild Orphan," and an autobiography, "Becoming the Mother of Me." She is survived by her three children, Hunter, Kristan and Mark; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grand children.
