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name: "Kathleen Burke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kathleen-burke"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 September 1913"
died: "9 April 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:03:37.430214+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kathleen Burke

Actor. Born 5 September 1913 in Hammond, Indiana, USA. Died 9 April 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 September 1913, Hammond, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 9 April 1980
- **Also known as:** Kathleen B. Burke, Kathleen Duff Burke
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Burke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925978, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121753/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29761

## Biography

Kathleen Burke (5 September 1913 – 9 April 1980) was an American actress. Born in Hammond, Indiana, she worked as a fashion model and radio actress in Chicago before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest from around 60,000 entrants to play Lota the Panther Woman in *Island of Lost Souls* (1932).

Her film career in the 1930s included roles in *Murders in the Zoo* (1933), *The Merry Widow* (1934), *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer* (1935) as Tania Volkanskaya, and *The Last Outpost* (1935). She appeared in around twenty films before retiring from screen acting in 1938. In the early 1940s she performed in summer theatre productions.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer* (1935), Fi1m 74, as Tania Volkanskaya — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-a-bengal-lancer.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film* (2014), as The Panther Woman (archive footage)
- *Rascals* (1938), as Dr. Carter's Nurse
- *Boy of the Streets* (1938), as Julie Stone
- *The Sheik Steps Out* (1937), as Gloria Parker
- *Craig's Wife* (1936), as Adelaide Passmore
- *The Lion Man* (1936), as Eulilah
- *Nevada* (1935), as Hettie Ide
- *The Last Outpost* (1935), as Ilya
- *Navy Wife* (1935), as Serena Morrison
- *The Awakening of Jim Burke* (1935), as Laura
- *The Fighting Westerner* (1935), as Flora Ballard
- *Mutiny Ahead* (1935), as Carol Bixby
- *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer* (1935), as Tania Volkanskaya — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-a-bengal-lancer.md)
- *The Merry Widow* (1934), as Prisoner (uncredited)
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1934), as Jane Sothern
- *School for Girls* (1934), as Gladys Deacon
- *Good Dame* (1934), as Zandra
- *Six of a Kind* (1934), as Woman (uncredited)
- *The Mad Game* (1933), as Marilyn Kirk
- *Torch Singer* (1933), as Sobbing Girl
- *Sunset Pass* (1933), as Jane Preston
- *Murders in the Zoo* (1933), as Evelyn Gorman
- *Island of Lost Souls* (1932), as Lota the Panther Woman

## Gallery

- ![Promotional photograph of Kathleen Burke as Lota the Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls (1933)](https://film.one/media/person/1228268/gallery-5d4449954b9b.jpg) Promotional photograph of Kathleen Burke as Lota the Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls (1933) — Chalmers Publishing Company; Paramount Pictures, no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Kathleen-Burke-Panther-Woman-1932.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kathleen Burke](https://film.one/media/person/1228268/gallery-0abc087310d8.jpg) Kathleen Burke — uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Kathleen_Burke_Photoplay_1936.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actress Kathleen Burke in court for her divorce, wearing a dress, hat and necklace with a pendant cross (1934)](https://film.one/media/person/1228268/gallery-ed82e30b289e.jpg) Actress Kathleen Burke in court for her divorce, wearing a dress, hat and necklace with a pendant cross (1934) — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Kathleen_Burke_in_court.jpg/1280px-Kathleen_Burke_in_court.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kathleen Burke](https://film.one/media/person/1228268/gallery-33660a678efe.jpg) Kathleen Burke — Image via TMDB
- ![Kathleen Burke](https://film.one/media/person/1228268/gallery-ffe3587f81cd.jpg) Kathleen Burke — Image via TMDB

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