# Kathie Browne

Kathie Browne (September 19, 1930 – April 8, 2003) was an American stage, film and television actress.

## Early life

Browne was born Jacqueline Sue Browne 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"$^{:258}$ 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
* Bonanza
* 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. 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. 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 25, 2006, in Los Angeles, California. He was 83. Darren McGavin is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery 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 | 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 |