American actress
Katherine Warren |
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| Born | Katharine C. Warren
(1905-07-12)July 12, 1905
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| Died | July 17, 1965(1965-07-17) (aged 60)
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| Occupation | Actress |
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| Years active | 1930–1963 |
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| Spouse |
Clark Chesney
( m. 1938; died 1951) |
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| Children | 1 |
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Katherine Warren (born Katharine C. Warren;[1][2][3] July 12, 1905 – July 17, 1965) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the 1949 film All the King's Men, the 1951 film The Prowler, and the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny.
Career
Born in Monroe, Michigan,[4] and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois,[5] Warren was the daughter of Frank B. Warren and Lucia M. Landon.[6][7] She attended Dana Hall Boarding School and Pine Manor Junior College.[4] After making her 1927 stage debut at the Repertory Theatre of Boston, Warren continued her studies with the Stuart Walker Repertory Company in Cincinnati.[6]
Prior to her career in films and TV, she was a stage actress on and off Broadway, in summer stock, and many theatrical venues throughout the US. Her signature role was as Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Walter Hampden in the title role. She married Vernon (aka Clark) Tharp Chesney in 1938. The couple had a son, David, in 1947. In 1948, due to her husband's illness, the family moved from New York City to Los Angeles where she began her movie and TV career. Clark Chesney died on January 4, 1951, at the City of Hope in Duarte, California.
She appeared under her maiden name (Katharine Warren, which she spelled as shown here) in over 30 films and dozens of television programs including the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (three episodes, 1956–1957) and Bonanza (1961) and the films Jailhouse Rock (1957), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), All the King's Men (1949), and as the mother of Ensign Willie Keith in the big-budget war drama The Caine Mutiny (1954).
She also coached aspiring young talent for Universal City Studios (then Universal International) in the early to mid-60s, and taught drama to young people at Brown Gables Conservatory in Brentwood, California.
Her final television performances came on the western series Laramie between 1960 and 1963.
Personal life and death
From December 1938 until his death in 1951, Warren was married to fellow actor Vernon Clark Chesney.[8][1] They had one child, a son.[8][9]
On July 17, 1965, Warren died at age 60 in Los Angeles.[10]
Filmography
Broadway
- Three Times the Hour (1931) as Mrs. Lawrence M. Blake
- Wednesday's Child (1934) as Kathryn Phillips
- Blind Alley (1935) as Doris Shelby
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) as Roxane
References
- ^ a b "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JVSJ-2QQ : Sat Feb 24 04:58:40 UTC 2024), Entry for Katharine Warren and Chesney, 1938.
- ^ "United States Census, 1910", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLRD-8JQ : Sun Mar 10 23:21:19 UTC 2024), Entry for Frank B Warren and Lucia L Warren, 1910.
- ^ "United States Census, 1920", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQJ-P2G : Sat Mar 09 08:51:47 UTC 2024), Entry for Kate C Landen and John E Landen, 1920.
- ^ a b Associated Press (November 21, 1950). "Katharine Warren's Career Has Been Teaching, Stage, Movies". The Daily Iberian. p. 4. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ Shaw, Len G. (February 3, 1943). "Still a Trouper: Katherine Cornell to Tour 'Three Sisters'; Plays Extremes; With Hampden". Detroit Free Press. p. 16. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ a b "Various Branches of the Fine Arts Claim Attention of Women in Society". Detroit Free Press. p. 10. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ "Stole March on Friends". Detroit Free Press. October 27, 1904. p. 3. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ a b "Vernon C. Chesney". Shamokin News Dispatch. January 5, 1951. p. 2. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ Karr, Jack (August 26, 1947). "Movie-Go-Round". The Toronto Star. p. 8. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4N-DBH : 26 November 2014), Katharin W Chesney, 17 Jul 1965; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
- ^ "The Man Behind the Gun (1953) – IMDb". IMDb.
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