Katherine Squire

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Katherine Squire (born March 9, 1903 in Defiance , Ohio , † March 29, 1995 in Lake Hill , New York ) was an American theater and film actress .

Life

Katherine Squire was born in Defiance , Ohio , in 1903 . After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan College, she studied acting at the American Laboratory Theater and initially performed at the Cleveland Play House. In 1927, she made her debut on New York's Broadway with a small role in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing , where she appeared several times until the 1950s. Over the years she has played mainly in regional theaters such as the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis or the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven . In the early 1980s, she also starred in New York's Roundabout Theater in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler opposite lead actress Susannah York .

From 1952 onwards she had often stood in front of the television camera, for example for the television series Mike Hammer (1958), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) and The People from Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian , 1962). In 1959, she made her first screen appearance as the caring mother of Rita Hayworth in Clifford Odet's court drama Sensation on Page 1 ( The Story on Page One ) . This was followed by small supporting roles in films such as The Days of Wine and Roses ( Days of Wine and Roses , 1962) and Asphalt Races ( Two-Lane Blacktop , 1971). She was most recently seen in Rob Reiner's love comedy Harry and Sally ( When Harry met Sally ... , 1989) as the older woman of an interviewed couple.

Her first marriage was to her fellow actor Byron McGrath. In 1940 she married the actor George Mitchell, who brought three daughters into the marriage and with whom she stood on stage and in front of the camera several times. They lived together in Nyack , Rockland County until Mitchell's death in 1972 . Katherine Squire died in Lake Hill, New York in 1995 at the age of 92 .

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  1. ↑ Katherine Squire, 92, Actress In Theater, Film and Television . In: The New York Times , April 5, 1995.
  2. ↑ Craig Hamrick, RJ Jamison: Barnabas & Company: The Cast of the TV Classic Dark Shadows . 2nd edition, iUniverse, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4759-1034-6 , pp. 431-432.
personal data
SURNAME Squire, Katherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Defiance , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1995
Place of death Lake Hill , New York