Katherine Warren

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Katherine Warren
Born	(1905-07-12)July 12, 1905 Bay City, Michigan, U.S.
Died	July 17, 1965(1965-07-17) (aged 60) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1930–1963
Spouse	Clark Chesney ​ ​ (m. 1938; died 1951)​
Children	1

Katherine Warren (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

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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949	Mary Ryan, Detective	Mrs. Sawyer
1949	All the King's Men	Mrs. Burden
1949	Tell It to the Judge	Kitty Lawton
1949	The Story of Molly X	Norma Calvert
1949	And Baby Makes Three	Miss Ellis – Nurse	Uncredited
1950	Three Secrets	Mrs. Connors
1950	Harriet Craig	Dr. Lambert	Uncredited
1950	Mystery Submarine	Mrs. Weber
1951	Three Guys Named Mike	Mrs. Scott Bellemy	Uncredited
1951	The Prowler	Grace Crocker
1951	Dear Brat	Mrs. Clark	Uncredited
1951	Lorna Doone	Sarah Ridd	Uncredited
1951	Night Into Morning	Mrs. Margaret Andersen
1951	Force of Arms	Maj. Waldron
1951	The Tall Target	Mrs. Gibbons	Uncredited
1951	The People Against O'Hara	Mrs. William Sheffield
1951	The Lady Pays Off	Dean Bessie Howell
1952	Scandal Sheet	Mrs. Allison	Uncredited
1952	This Woman Is Dangerous	Mrs. Millican
1952	Talk About a Stranger	Mrs. Dorothy Mahler	Uncredited
1952	Paula	Mary	Uncredited
1952	Washington Story	Mrs. Birch
1952	Son of Ali Baba	Princess Karma	Uncredited
1952	Flat Top	Dorothy's Mother	Uncredited
1952	The Steel Trap	Mrs. Kellogg
1952	Battles of Chief Pontiac	Chia
1952	The Star	Mrs. Ruth Morrison	Uncredited
1953	The Man Behind the Gun	Phoebe Sheldon
1954	The Glenn Miller Story	Mrs. Burger
1954	The Caine Mutiny	Mrs. Keith
1954	The Country Girl	Theatregoer	Uncredited
1954	The Violent Men	Mrs. Vail	Uncredited
1954	The Bamboo Prison	Mother Rand	Voice, Uncredited
1956	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Freda Wallingford	Season 1 Episode 23 ("Back for Christmas")
1956	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mother Edwards	Season 1 Episode 34 ("The Hidden Thing")
1956	Inside Detroit	Ethel Linden
1956	Fury at Gunsight Pass	Mrs. Boggs
1957	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Policewoman	Season 3 Episode 5 ("Silent Witness")
1957	Drango	Mrs. Scott
1957	Jailhouse Rock	Mrs. Van Alden	Uncredited
1957	Zero Hour!	Mrs. Purdy	Uncredited
1960	I'll Give My Life	Dora Bradford

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

• Katherine Warren at the Internet Broadway Database

External links

• Katherine Warren at IMDb