Kathie Browne
American actress (1930-2003)
Jacqueline Sue "Kathie" Browne (September 19, 1930 – April 8, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress.
Early life
Browne was born on September 19, 1930, in Humansville, Missouri, to Winn Roscoe Browne and Erma Mae Wood. 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. 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.
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" 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.
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