Katherine Warren (born Katharine C. 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

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.

Personal life and death

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.

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

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