Kathie Browne

Kathie Browne (September 19, 1929 – April 8, 2003) was an American stage, film and television actress.

Early life

She was born Jacqueline Sue Browne on September 19, 1929 in Humansville, Missouri to Winn Roscoe Browne and Erma Mae Wood.Jacqueline Sue Brown in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, retrieved fro
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/ref> Her family later moved to San Luis Obispo, California, then when she turned ten, to Los Angeles, where she went to city schools. She received her first social security card at age 13 during April 1943.Her 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 After high school, she studied drama at Los Angeles City College (LACC), where she won a best acting award.

Tustin Playbox

May Rose Borum, a drama teacher at LACC, founded a community theatre called the Tustin Playbox in June 1952. As "Cathy Browne" (her first stage name; she does not appear to have used "Kathie Browne" until March 1959), Browne was active in this theater for many years, both as performer and co-producer with her first husband, Sherwood Price.Price's birth name was Frank Sherwood Gell; his early credits from 1948 were as Sherwood Gell, eventually changing to Sherwood Price in 1952.

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 murderer 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" and as Deela in the 1968 '' Star Trek'' episode "Wink of an Eye".

Other television series on which she appeared include:

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.Sherwood P Gell in the California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1949-1959, retrieved fro
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On December 31, 1969, Browne married actor Darren McGavin and was his third wife.

Death

A breast cancer survivor, on April 8, 2003, Browne died of natural causes in Beverly Hills, California. She was 72. She is buried as Kathie Browne-McGavin at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles County, California. McGavin, to whom she was married for 34 years, died on February 26, 2006, in Los Angeles, California. He was 83. Oddly, Darren McGavin is interred at another cemetery just 6 miles away, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Filmography

Notes

References

External links

Kathie Browne's Official Website
(archived 2009)

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1930 births
2003 deaths
Actresses from Los Angeles
American film actresses
American television actresses
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
Los Angeles City College alumni
People from San Luis Obispo, California
Western (genre) television actors
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women