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. 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 doesn't 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 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". 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 "" episode "Wink of an Eye" (1968). In 1975 Browne co-starred in the "" 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. On December 31, 1969, Browne married actor Darren McGavin and was his third wife. 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.