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.Jacqueline Sue Brown in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, retrieved from Ancestry.com 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.Browne 's Social Security Administration file records the following name changes:Apr 1943: Jacqueline Sue BrowneJan 1956: Jacqueline Sue GellMay 1960: Cathy BrowneOct 1961: Kathie BrowneDec 1967: Jacqueline PriceMay 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, which he changed 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 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 from Ancestry.com She later married actor Darren McGavin in December 1969. The marriage ended with her death in 2003.
Death A breast cancer survivor, Browne died of natural causes on April 8, 2003, in Beverly Hills, California, at age 72. She is buried as Kathie Browne-McGavin at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). McGavin, to whom she was married for 34 years, died in 2006 and was interred six 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 episodes1960 Studs Lonigan Wild Party Girl Uncredited1960 Perry Mason Donna Loring Ross Episode: The Case of the Provocative Protege1960CinderfellaUncredited1960Tales of Wells FargoMadeline1961–1964 Bonanza Ellen Henry / Margie Owens / Laura Dayton 6 episodes1961 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 Hate1962 The Underwater City Dotty Steele 1962 Perry Mason Susan Fisher Episode: The Case of the Mystified Miner1962 Have Gun – Will Travel Marie Ellis / Lydia Moss 2 episodes1963 My Favorite Martian Peaches Episode: A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Peaches1963 Perry Mason Carla Eden Episode: The Case of the Festive Felon1964 Man's Favorite Sport? Marcia 1964 The Brass Bottle Hazel Jenks 1964 Alfred Hitchcock Hour Mavis Maxwell Episode: Bed of Roses1965 Alfred Hitchcock Hour Noreen Kimberly Episode: Wally the Beard1965 Brainstorm Angie DeWitt 1965 Perry Mason Lona Upton Episode: The Case of the Thermal Thief1965 The Wild Wild West Faith Cadwallader Episode: The Night of the Human Trigger1966 Branded Jenny Galvin Episode: Call to Glory parts 1, 2 and 31967 The Wild Wild West Jennifer Caine Episode: The Night of the Colonel's Ghost1967 Hondo Angie Dow 17 episodes1968 Star TrekDeela S3:E11, Wink of an Eye1970 Love, American StyleAnn Curtis Episode: Love and the King1972 43: The Richard Petty Story Elizabeth Richard Petty biography film1973 Happy Mother's Day, Love George Crystal 1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker Lieutenant Irene Lamont Episode: The Sentry1980 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
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External links
Kathie Browne's Official Website (archived 2009)