Katherine Warren

• Name — Katherine Warren • Birth Name — Katharine C. Warren • Born — 12 July 1905 • Birthplace — Monroe, Michigan, U.S. • Died — 17 July 1965 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1930–1963 • Children — 1

Born in Monroe, Michigan, and raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, Warren was the daughter of Frank B. Warren and Lucia M. Landon. She attended Dana Hall Boarding School and Pine Manor Junior College. After making her 1927 stage debut at the Repertory Theatre of Boston, Warren continued her studies with the Stuart Walker Repertory Company in Cincinnati. 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.

From December 1938 until his death in 1951, Warren was married to fellow actor Vernon Clark Chesney. They had one child, a son. On July 17, 1965, Warren died at age 60 in Los Angeles.

• 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

• 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