Katherine Squire

Katherine Squire
Born	March 9, 1903(1903-03-09) Defiance, Ohio, USA
Died	March 29, 1995(1995-03-29) Lake Hill, NY, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1927–1989
Spouse	George Mitchell

Katherine Squire (1903–1995) was an American actress who appeared on Broadway and in regional theater, movies and television, from the 1920s through the 1980s.

Early life

She was born March 9, 1903 in Defiance, Ohio, USA. She graduated from Ohio Wesleyan and began her acting career at the Cleveland Play House. She studied at the American Laboratory Theater.

Broadway career

The Broadway productions in which she appeared were:

• Much Ado About Nothing, playing Watch, November 18, 1927 - December 1927
• The Black Tower, playing Mona, January 11, 1932 - March 1932
• Goodbye Again, playing Julia Wilson, December 28, 1932 - July 1933
• Hipper's Holiday, playing Helen Tyson, October 18, 1934 thru ?
• Three Men on a Horse, playing Audrey Trowbridge (as a replacement), January 30, 1935 - January 9, 1937
• Lady of Letters, playing Winifred Shaw, March 28, 1935 - April 1935
• Life's Too Short, playing Hannah Priest, September 20-?, 1935
• Many Mansions, playing Mrs. Roberts, October 27, 1937 - March 1938
• Liberty Jones, playing Nurse Cotton, February 5–22, 1941
• The Family, playing Anna Petrovna Chernov, March 30, 1943 - April 3, 1943
• Chicken Every Sunday, playing Mrs. Lynch, April 5, 1944 - January 6, 1945
• The Traveling Lady, playing Sitter Mavis, October 27, 1954 - November 20, 1954
• Six Characters in Search of an Author, playing The Mother, December 11, 1955 - February 5, 1956
• The Sin of Pat Muldoon, playing Brigid Muldoon, March 13–16, 1957
• The Shadow of a Gunman , playing Mrs. Grigson, November 20, 1958 - January 3, 1959

Regional Theater Career

She appeared in Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in David Storey's In Celebration at the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C., and in 1979 in Hillbilly Women at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. In the early 1980s, she acted in Hedda Gabler (starring Susannah York) at the Roundabout Theater, and in Memory of Whiteness at the American Place Theater, both in New York.

Film career

She appeared in films both well-known and obscure:

• The Story on Page One (1959) playing Mrs. Hattie Brown
• Studs Lonigan (1960) playing Mrs. Lonigan
• Song Without End (1960) playing Anna Liszt
• Days of Wine and Roses (1962) (uncredited) playing Mrs. Nolan
• Ride in the Whirlwind (1965) playing Catherine
• This Savage Land (1969) (TV) playing Grandma Pride
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) playing Old Woman
• Blade (1973) playing Aunt Cynthia
• Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) playing Chickie Feather
• When Harry Met Sally (1989) playing Documentary Couple

Television career

Katherine Squire acted in television from 1951 through 1975. She performed roles in many of the dramas of the Golden Age of Television: Robert Montgomery Presents, CBS Television Workshop, Playhouse 90, Goodyear Television Playhouse, The United States Steel Hour, Studio One, The Alcoa Hour, and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

She did multiple episodes each for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and The Twilight Zone, and had continuing roles on the soap operas Valiant Lady, The Doctors, and Search For Tomorrow.

She never worked on comedies (the one exception being the Storm Over Shangri-La episode of The Tom Ewell Show), but often did Westerns (Tales of Wells Fargo, The Texan, and The Virginian, among others) and crime dramas (Peter Gunn, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Perry Mason, and Adam-12, among others). She played Doctor Kildare's mother. She quite often paired with her husband in the role of an elderly couple.

Her last television appearance was in 1975 in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie Eric, as Mrs. Harris.

Among her other appearances:

• Mister Peepers

  Episode #1.12 (1952) playing Mrs. Crump

• Shirley Temple's Storybook

  The Little Lame Prince (1958) playing Flora

• Markham

  The Marble Face (1959)

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (2 episodes)

  Pen Pal (1960) playing Miss Lowen

  Man from the South (1960) playing Carlos' Wife

• Perry Mason (3 episodes)

  The Case of the Credulous Quarry (1960) playing Clara Thorpe

  The Case of the Nervous Neighbor (1964) playing Vera Hargrave

  The Case of the Wrongful Writ (1965) playing Esther Norden

• Dr. Kildare

  The Lonely Ones (1961) playing Mrs. Kildare

• Checkmate

  Through a Dark Glass (1961) playing Mrs. Vorlund

• Letter to Loretta

  The Preliminaries (1961) playing Mrs. Douglas

• The Barbara Stanwyck Show

  Dear Charlie (1961) playing Elvie

• The Twilight Zone (2 episodes)

  One More Pallbearer (1962) playing Mrs. Langsford

  In His Image (1963) playing The Old Woman

• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (3 episodes)

  Terror at Northfield (1963) playing Mrs. La Font

  The Star Juror (1963) playing Mrs. Fenton

  Wally the Beard (1965) playing Mrs. Adams

• Profiles in Courage

  Mary S. McDowell (1964) playing Mrs. Simpson

• Peyton Place

  Episode #3.16 (1966) playing Mrs. Burroughs

• The Road West

  "This Savage Land: Part 1 (1966) playing Grandma

  This Savage Land: Part 2 (1966) playing Grandma

• Apple's Way

  The Teacher (1974) playing Mrs. Perry

Personal life

She was born March 9, 1903 in Defiance, Ohio, USA. In 1940, she married George Mitchell, also an actor, with whom she often worked on stage, in film, and on television — he died in 1972. She died on March 29, 1995 in Lake Hill, N.Y., at the age of 92, and was survived by three stepdaughters.

Sources

• Katherine Squire at the Internet Broadway Database
• Katherine Squire at the Internet Movie Database