Kate Cutler
Actor
Biography
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Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ingénue in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex in 1924 shortly before opening night.
Cutler performed in films between 1929 and 1938, including Such Is the Law (1930), The Great Gay Road (1931), Lord of the Manor (1933), Come Out of the Pantry (1935) and Moscow Nights (1935). Her last film was Pygmalion in 1938. The Manchester Guardian said of her in an obituary notice, "She proved that an actress who can play the lead in musical comedy can go on to play the lead in anything else. ... She was a really accomplished actress with that indefinable quality which we call style."
Cutler's second husband, Major Charles Dudley Ward, predeceased her. She died at her home in London, age 90.
Filmography
Wedding Rehearsal
as Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster 1932
Moscow Nights
as Madame Kovrin 1934
Lord of the Manor
as Lady Bovey 1933
When Knights Were Bold
as Aunt Agatha 1936
The Black Mask
as Lady Mincott 1935
To Brighton with Gladys
as Aunt Dorothy 1933
That's a Good Girl
as Helen Malone 1933
Action for Slander
as The Dowager 1937
Dark Red Roses
as Laura's Mother 1929
Come Out of the Pantry
as Dowager Marchioness of Axminster 1935
Such Is the Law
as Mother 1930