Katherine Kath obit

Actress Katherine Kath has died

 She was not on the list.

She as a French prima ballerina at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, who became an actress after suffering from an injury which destroyed her chances of continuing her career.

Kath was born in Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France, where she also died, at age 92 in 2012, from undisclosed causes. Until shortly before then, she was living in London, near Fulham Road.

She appeared in many international films and television programmes during her acting career. She met British filmmaker Jack Clayton in 1952, during the making of Moulin Rouge, in which she portrayed the can-can dancer La Goulue and on which Clayton was the assistant director.

Jack was gifted a watercolour of Katherine by Marcel Vertès, who won two academy awards for his work on the film. It was signed "A Jack Clayton tres amicalement".

The couple married in 1953, following Clayton's divorce from his first wife, Christine Norden, but the union was shortlivedFilmography

Film

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1947      Captain Blomet                

1948      Le cavalier de Croix-Mort              Sandrine             

1948      The Cupboard Was Bare                L'actrice              

1948      Toute la famille était là Rita Barbara      

1949      Thus Finishes the Night Une voyageuse

1950      Fugitive from Montreal                 

1952      Crimson Curtain                               

1952      Moulin Rouge    Louise Weber (La Goulue)           

1953      Inside a Girls' Dormitory                Mlle. Claude Persal         

1954      Daughters of Destiny      La ribaude           Segment: "Jeanne"

1954      Oh No, Mam'zelle            Gimblette           

1955      Madonna of the Sleeping Cars    Irena     

1956      Peril for the Guy               Anita Fox            

1956      A Touch of the Sun          Lucienne             

1956      Anastasia             Maxime               

1957      Let's Be Happy   Mrs. Fielding     

1957      These Dangerous Years Mrs. Wyman     

1957      Seven Thunders                Mme. Parfait     

1958      The Man Who Wouldn't Talk       Yvonne Delbeau              

1959      Subway in the Sky            Anna Grant        

1961      Fury at Smugglers' Bay   Maman                

1962      Gigot     Colette

1963      Aliki       Anna     

1964      Circus World      Hilda     

1965      The High Bright Sun         Mrs. Andros       

1969      The Assassination Bureau             Mme. Lucoville

1971      Mary, Queen of Scots     Catherine de' Medici      

1977      Marquis de Sade's Justine             Mme. Laronde  

Television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1956, 1966          Armchair Theatre             Mila Kosky, Carole Millard            Episodes: "The Mother", "The Three Barrelled Shotgun"

1957      The Benny Hill Show                       Episode: "2.1"

1958      Uncertain Mercy               Marya Borow     TV film

1958      Sunday Night Theatre     Nina       Episode: "The Uninvited"

1958–59               Television Playwright      Maria Venucci / Anna Rojas         Episodes: "The Marrying of Milly", "The Dark Side of the Earth"

1959      Foreign Field      Cyprine                 TV film

1959      Never Die            Odette Marceau               TV film

1960      BBC Sunday-Night Play   Sister Annelise Episode: "The Small Victory"

1961      The Hunted        Giselle   TV film

1967      The Prisoner       Engadine              Episode: "A. B. and C."

1972      Doomwatch        Lady Janette Holroyd      Episode: "Without the Bomb"

1974      QB VII    Mrs. Czerny        Episode: "Part 3"

1975      Shades of Greene            The Madam        Episode: "The Root of All Evil"

1980      Love in a Cold Climate    Old Countess     Episode: "Monsieur Le Duc"

1984      The Man Who Married a French Wife      Maman                 TV film

1986      Just Good Friends             The Secretary    Episode: "The Wedding"

1987      Horizon                Pop Prior             Episode: "The Race for the Double Helix"

1989      The Pied Piper   French Woman on Train                TV film