{{Short description|American actress (1923–2004)}} {{Use American English|date=August 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2011}} {{Infobox person | name = Katherine Victor | image = Katherine Victor in Teenage Zombies.jpg | image_size = | caption = Victor in ''Teenage Zombies'' (1960) | birth_name = Katena Ktenavea | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|08|18|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2004|10|22|1923|08|18}} | death_place = West Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills | other_names = Katina Vea | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1953–2004 }}
'''Katherine Victor''' (born '''Katena Ktenavea''';<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Weaver |first1=Tom |title=Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes: The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Classic Interviews |date=2000 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786407552 |page=386 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8PK4jszVDoC&dq=%22Katena+Ktenavea%22&pg=RA1-PA386 |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref> August 18, 1923 – October 22, 2004) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Ron Ormond's ''Mesa of Lost Women'' (1953) and a number of Jerry Warren's films. She was also known as '''Katina Vea'''.<ref >{{cite book |last1=Warren |first1=Bill |title=Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition |date=2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476625058 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7kUCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katina+Vea%22&pg=PT1403 |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
== Early years == Victor was born in the Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, neighborhood of New York City, but she grew up in Los Angeles.<ref name=":0" />
== Career == Victor began acting in the late 1940s, working on stage and on radio. Her film debut came in ''Mesa of Lost Women'' (1953).<ref name=":0" />
Victor's work for Warren included ''Teenage Zombies'' (1959), ''Creature of the Walking Dead'' (1965), ''House of the Black Death'' (1965), ''The Wild World of Batwoman'' (1966), and ''Frankenstein Island'' (1981). She also co-starred in ''The Cape Canaveral Monsters'' (1960), directed by Phil Tucker, and the TV movie ''Fear No Evil''.<ref name="Lentz 2005 p362-363">{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M. III |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2004: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |date=2005 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786421039 |page=363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IHvGCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katena+Ktenavea%22&pg=PA363 |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
During the 1970s, Katherine (who used the film name '''Kathrin''') co-starred in indie filmmaker Brian Pinette's ''The Centerfold'' and ''From Caviar to Coleslaw'' which was written for her{{Citation needed |date=August 2023}} and filmed on location in Houston, Texas. She recorded two songs for the film ''From Caviar to Coleslaw'': "The Winds of Change" and "Did I Love Too Much?".
Her later films included ''Bikini Summer'' (1991), a supporting role in ''Fugitive Rage'' (1996) directed by Fred Olen Ray, and a role as Mary Jo Trent in ''Superguy: Behind the Cape'' (2004). From 1960 to 2000, she also worked in various capacities (generally as continuity director/ animation checker) on a number of Disney animated films and cartoons and productions of other studios such as Hanna-Barbera and Filmation.<ref name="Lentz 2005 p362-363">{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M. III |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2004: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |date=2005 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786421039 |page=363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IHvGCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katena+Ktenavea%22&pg=PA363 |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== ===Death=== On October 22, 2004, Victor died after suffering a stroke.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Stephen |title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 |date=2012 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=9781780337135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TtzABAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katena+Ktenavea%22&pg=PT388 |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Her gravesite is at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ellenberger|first1=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786450190|pages=79–80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Leon+Ames%22+actor&pg=PA80|access-date=5 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>{{irrelevant citation|reason=Katherine Victor is not in this source by any name and it was published before she died|date=May 2025}}
===Papers=== Victor's papers (1943–2002) are housed at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, California.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kathrin Victor papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8125vz9/ |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=20 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920234757/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8125vz9/ |archive-date=20 September 2018}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|id=0896124|name=Katherine Victor}}
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