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

Kathie Browne
Browne in Bonanza, 1963
Born	Jacqueline Sue Browne (1929-09-19)September 19, 1929 Humansville, Missouri, U.S.
Died	April 8, 2003(2003-04-08) (aged 73) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Other names	Cathy Browne Kathie Browne McGavin
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1952–1980
Spouse(s)	Sherwood Price ​ ​ (m. 1953; div. 1961)​ Darren McGavin ​ (m. 1969)​

Early life

She 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 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".^{[citation needed]} Other television series on which she appeared include Coronado 9, Hazel, My Favorite Martian, Get Smart, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Wild Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive, Ironside, The Rockford Files, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Sea Hunt, Ripcord, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Real McCoys, Banacek, Mannix, The Big Valley, The Gray Ghost, The Sheriff of Cochise, The Virginian, Laramie, Hondo, Whispering Smith, Redigo, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Man from Blackhawk, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Tombstone Territory, Rawhide and as Deela in the Star Trek episode "Wink of an Eye" (1968).

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][8]

On December 31, 1969, Browne married actor Darren McGavin and was his third wife.^{[citation needed]}

Death

A breast cancer survivor, on April 8, 2003, Browne died of natural causes in Beverly Hills, California. She was 72.[9] 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 26, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. He was 83.[11] Oddly, Darren McGavin is interred at another cemetery just 6 miles away, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[12]

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
1961–1964	Bonanza	Ellen Henry / Margie Owens / Laura Dayton	6 episodes
1961	Rawhide	Mary Donahoe / Lily	3 episodes
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
1967	Hondo	Angie Dow	17 episodes
1968	Star Trek: The Original Series	Deela	Episode: 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

Notes

References

External links

• Kathie Browne's Official Website

• Kathie Browne at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Kathie Browne at IMDb
• Kathie Browne at AllMovie
• Kathie Browne at Find a Grave

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