- Born
- Died
- Birth nameKatena Ktenavea
- Nickname
- Katina Vea
- Born Katena Ktenavea in the Hell's Kitchen (now Clinton) neighborhood of midtown Manhattan, the future film and TV actress grew up in Los Angeles and began her acting career on the stage and in radio in the late 1940s. She made her film debut in the campy sci-fi adventure film Les Créatures du docteur Aranya (1953). Five years later, she starred as the imperious Dr. Myra in director Jerry Warren's film Teenage Zombies (1959), which led to a series of roles in Warren's impoverished film productions. Always busy outside of acting (in modeling, real estate and in various jobs in the animated cartoon business), Victor felt that the stigma of being a regular in Warren's films stymied her mainstream acting career.- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com> (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous) & A.N. Onymous)
- SpouseOtto Gay Leichliter Jr.(1970 - ?)
- During the 1970s, Katherine (who used the stage name Kathrin) co-starred in independent filmmaker Brian Pinette's "The Centerfold" and "From Caviar to Coleslaw", the second of which was written just for her and filmed on location in Houston, Texas.
- Her papers (1943-2002) are housed at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, California.
- From 1960 to 2000, she also worked in various capacities (generally as a continuity director and an animation checker) on a number of Walt Disney animated films and TV series and on the productions of other studios, such as Hanna-Barbera and Filmation.
- She began acting in the late 1940s, working both on stage and in radio.
- She recorded two songs for the film "From Caviar to Coleslaw": "The Winds of Change" and "Did I Love Too Much?".
- The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960) - $450
- Teenage Zombies (1960) - $300
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