Kathie Browne
Kathie Browne (September 19, 1929 – April 8, 2003) was an American stage, film and television actress.
Early life
Browne was born Jacqueline Sue Browne on September 19, 1929, in Humansville, Missouri, to Winn Roscoe Browne and Erma Mae Wood.[1] Her family later moved to San Luis Obispo, California, then when she turned ten, to Los Angeles, where she went to city schools.[2] She received her first social security card at age 13 during April 1943.[fn 1][1] After high school, she studied drama at Los Angeles City College (LACC), where she won a best acting award.[3]
Tustin Playbox
May Rose Borum, a drama teacher at LACC, founded a community theatre called the Tustin Playbox in June 1952.[4] As "Cathy Browne" (her first stage name; she does not appear to have used "Kathie Browne" until March 1959),[5] Browne was active in this theater for many years, both as performer and co-producer with her first husband, Sherwood Price.[fn 2][6][5][7]
Career
In 1955, Browne's television acting career began with her appearance in one episode of Big Town. She appeared in many films and television series, including four roles on Perry Mason: as title character and defendant Donna Loring Ross in the 1960 episode "The Case of the Provocative Protégée", as defendant Susan Fisher in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Mystified Miner", as Carla Eden in the 1963 episode "The Case of the Festive Felon" and as defendant Lona Upton in the 1965 episode "The Case of the Thermal Thief." In 1962, Browne appeared as Laurie Kemper on the TV Western Lawman in the episode titled "Heritage of Hate"[8]: 258 and as Deela in the 1968 Star Trek episode "Wink of an Eye".
Other television series on which she appeared include:
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Banacek
- The Big Valley
- The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
- Cade's County
- Coronado 9
- Fantasy Island
- The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)
- Get Smart
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- The Gray Ghost
- Gunsmoke
- Have Gun Will Travel
- Hawaiian Eye
- Hazel
- ‘’Hondo’’
- Ironside
- Laramie
- Longstreet
- The Man from Blackhawk
- Mannix
- My Favorite Martian
- Police Story
- The Real McCoys
- Redigo
- Ripcord
- The Rockford Files
- The Sheriff of Cochise
- Tombstone Territory
- The Virginian
- Wagon Train
- Wanted Dead or Alive
- Whispering Smith
In 1975 Browne co-starred in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "Sentry", in which her husband, Darren McGavin, starred. She played Chicago P.D. Lieutenant Irene Lamont.
Personal life
As Jacqueline Sue Browne she married actor-producer Sherwood Price on November 22, 1953, at the Chapman Park Hotel in Los Angeles.[5][9] She later married actor Darren McGavin in December 1969. The marriage ended with her death in 2003.[10]
Death
A breast cancer survivor, Browne died of natural causes on April 8, 2003, in Beverly Hills, California. She was 73.[11] She is buried as Kathie Browne-McGavin at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles County, California.[10] McGavin, to whom she was married for 34 years, died on February 25, 2006, in Los Angeles, California. He was 83.[12] Darren McGavin is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery[13] just 6 miles away.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1958 | Murder by Contract | Mary – Secretary and Party Girl | |
1958 | City of Fear | Jeanne | |
1960–1961 | Sea Hunt | Eleana Dales / Kathryn Drayton / Suzie Kenyon | 3 episodes |
1960 | Studs Lonigan | Wild Party Girl | Uncredited |
1960 | Perry Mason | Donna Loring Ross | Episode: The Case of the Provocative Protege |
1960 | Cinderfella | Uncredited | |
1960 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Madeline | |
1961–1964 | Bonanza | Ellen Henry / Margie Owens / Laura Dayton | 6 episodes |
1961 | Rawhide | Mary Donahoe | S3:E23, "Incident of the Phantom Bugler" |
1961 | Rawhide | Lily | S3:E30, "Incident of the Wager on Payday" |
1961 | Rawhide | Lily | S4:E4, "Judgement at Hondo Seco" |
1962 | Lawman | Laurie Kemper | Episode: Heritage of Hate |
1962 | The Underwater City | Dotty Steele | |
1962 | Perry Mason | Susan Fisher | Episode: The Case of the Mystified Miner |
1962 | Have Gun – Will Travel | Marie Ellis / Lydia Moss | 2 episodes |
1963 | My Favorite Martian | Peaches | Episode: A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Peaches |
1963 | Perry Mason | Carla Eden | Episode: The Case of the Festive Felon |
1964 | Man's Favorite Sport? | Marcia | |
1964 | The Brass Bottle | Hazel Jenks | |
1964 | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Mavis Maxwell | Episode: Bed of Roses |
1965 | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Noreen Kimberly | Episode: Wally the Beard |
1965 | Brainstorm | Angie DeWitt | |
1965 | Perry Mason | Lona Upton | Episode: The Case of the Thermal Thief |
1965 | The Wild Wild West | Faith Cadwallader | Episode: The Night of the Human Trigger |
1966 | Branded | Jenny Galvin | Episode: Call to Glory parts 1, 2 and 3 |
1967 | The Wild Wild West | Jennifer Caine | Episode: The Night of the Colonel's Ghost |
1967 | Hondo | Angie Dow | 17 episodes |
1968 | Star Trek: The Original Series | Deela | S3:E11, Wink of an Eye |
1970 | Love, American Style | Ann Curtis | Episode: Love and the King |
1972 | 43: The Richard Petty Story | Elizabeth | |
1973 | Happy Mother's Day, Love George | Crystal | |
1975 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Lieutenant Irene Lamont | Episode: The Sentry |
1980 | The Love Boat | Mary Ann Walker | Episode: The Family Plan/The Promoter/May the Best Man Win/Forever Engaged/The Judges: Part 1 and 2 |
References
Informational notes
- ^ Browne 's Social Security Administration file records the following name changes:
Apr 1943: Jacqueline Sue Browne
Jan 1956: Jacqueline Sue Gell
May 1960: Cathy Browne
Oct 1961: Kathie Browne
Dec 1967: Jacqueline Price
May 1971: Kathie McGavin - ^ Price's birth name was Frank Sherwood Gell; his early credits from 1948 were as Sherwood Gell, which he changed to Sherwood Price in 1952.
Citations
- ^ a b Jacqueline Sue Brown in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, retrieved from Ancestry.com
- ^ "Tustin Plays Big Part in Life of Cathy Price". The Tustin News. Tustin, California. August 29, 1957. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Year Round Plays a Goal of Playbox at Tustin". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. December 12, 1954. p. 163 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Tustin Playbox to Present Summer Stock Plays with Center Staging". The Tustin News. Tustin, California. June 27, 1952. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Playbox Stars to Wed Nov. 22". The Tustin News. Tustin, California. November 20, 1953. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stock Will Reopen in Tustin". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. May 30, 1954. p. 88 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dunlap, Velma (August 31, 1959). "'Gigi' Proves Delightful in Tustin". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Lentz, Harris M. (1997). Television Westerns Episode Guide: All United States Series, 1949-1996. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-7386-1.
- ^ Sherwood P Gell in the California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1949-1959, retrieved from Ancestry.com
- ^ a b Aaker, Everett (16 May 2017). Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-1-4766-2856-1. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
- ^ "Kathie B. McGavin, 72; Acted in Popular TV Series of 1950s, '60s". Los Angeles Times. April 17, 2003.
- ^ Brozan, Nadine (February 27, 2006). "Darren McGavin, Versatile Veteran Actor, Dies at 83". The New York Times.
- ^ Stephens, E. J.; Stephens, Kim (2017). Legends of Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-439-66142-0.
External links
- Kathie Browne's Official Website (archived 2009)
- Kathie Browne at Memory Alpha
- Kathie Browne at IMDb
- Kathie Browne at AllMovie
- Kathie Browne at Find a Grave