Katherine Griffith

Katherine Kiernan Griffith (September 30, 1876 – October 17, 1921), also seen as Catherine Kiernan, was an American character actress on stage and in silent films.

Early life Catherine Kiernan was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Irish immigrants Peter Kiernan and Catherine Kiernan. Described as a "large, commanding woman", she appeared in dozens of silent films, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1913), The Gray Nun of Belgium (1915), The Greater Power (1916), Murdered by Mistake (1916), A Little Princess (1917) with Mary Pickford, In Judgment Of (1918), A Yankee Princess (1919) with Bessie Love, The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919), The Spite Bride (1919) with Olive Thomas, The Woman Next Door (1919), Pollyanna (1920), again with Mary Pickford, Huckleberry Finn (1920), with her son Gordon Griffith as Tom Sawyer, Mid-Channel (1920), and They Shall Pay (1921).

Personal life Kiernan married fellow actor Harry Sutherland Griffith in 1897. her son Gordon became a child actor.