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name: "Katherine DeMille"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katherine-demille"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 June 1911"
died: "27 April 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:11:47.294224+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Katherine DeMille

Actor. Born 29 June 1911 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Died 27 April 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 June 1911, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Died:** 27 April 1995
- **Active:** 1934–1936
- **Also known as:** Katherine Lester DeMille
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_DeMille, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454944, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93226

## Biography

Katherine DeMille (born Katherine Paula Lester; 29 June 1911 – 27 April 1995) was a Canadian-born American actress. Orphaned as a child, she was adopted by film director Cecil B. DeMille and his wife Constance Adams DeMille. She gained stage experience in the early 1930s and made her first credited screen appearance as Rosita Morales in *Viva Villa!* (1934).

She played around 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s. Her work included *The Crusades* (1935), *Call of the Wild* (1935), *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), *The Black Room* (1935) and *Unconquered* (1947). She signed a contract with Paramount Pictures after early roles and later worked at other studios.

DeMille married actor Anthony Quinn in 1937; they had five children and divorced in 1965. She largely retired from acting in the early 1940s but returned for roles in *Black Gold* (1947) and *The Judge* (1949).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), Fi1m 63, as Rosaline — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet.md)
- *Viva Villa!* (1934), Fi1m 66, as Rosita Morales — [page](https://film.one/film/viva-villa.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Judge* (1949), as Lucille Strang
- *Unconquered* (1947), as Hannah
- *Black Gold* (1947), as Sarah Eagle
- *Aloma of the South Seas* (1941), as Kari
- *Dark Streets of Cairo* (1940), as Shari Abbadi
- *Ellery Queen, Master Detective* (1940), as Valerie Norris
- *Isle Of Destiny* (1940), as Inda Barton
- *In Old Caliente* (1939), as Rita Vargas
- *Trapped in the Sky* (1939), as Carol Rayder
- *Blockade* (1938), as Peasant Woman on Train
- *Under Suspicion* (1937), as Mary Brookhart
- *Love Under Fire* (1937), as Rosa
- *The Californian* (1937), as Chata
- *Charlie Chan at the Olympics* (1937), as Yvonne Roland
- *Banjo on My Knee* (1936), as Leota Long
- *The Sky Parade* (1936), as Geraldine Croft
- *Ramona* (1936), as Margarita
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), as Rosaline — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet.md)
- *Drift Fence* (1936), as Molly Dunn
- *Hollywood Extra Girl* (1935), as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
- *The Crusades* (1935), as Alice, Princess of France
- *Call of the Wild* (1935), as Marie
- *The Black Room* (1935), as Mashka
- *All the King's Horses* (1935), as Fraülein Mimi
- *Belle of the Nineties* (1934), as Molly Brant
- *Viva Villa!* (1934), as Rosita Morales — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/viva-villa.md)
- *The Trumpet Blows* (1934), as Lupe the Maid
- *Four Frightened People* (1934), Script Supervisor
- *Girls About Town* (1931), as Party Girl (uncredited)
- *Son of India* (1931), as Karim's Servant Amah (uncredited)
- *Madam Satan* (1930), as Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
- *Love Among the Millionaires* (1930), as Society Girl (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Katherine DeMille](https://film.one/media/person/1227716/gallery-a2466bb32492.jpg) Katherine DeMille — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Katherine_DeMille_in_1935.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Canadian-born American actress Katherine DeMille on the cover of Cinegraf magazine (September 1936).](https://film.one/media/person/1227716/gallery-a931c6f1a261.jpg) Canadian-born American actress Katherine DeMille on the cover of Cinegraf magazine (September 1936). — Cinegraf magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Katherine_DeMille_on_the_cover_of_Cinegraf.jpg/1280px-Katherine_DeMille_on_the_cover_of_Cinegraf.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Screenshot of actress Katherine DeMille in the film Isle of Destiny (1940).](https://film.one/media/person/1227716/gallery-b884b81846c2.jpg) Screenshot of actress Katherine DeMille in the film Isle of Destiny (1940). — RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Katherine_DeMille_in_Isle_of_Destiny.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actress Katherine De Mille poses with a dog that stands on his back feet, balancing a branch with two birds on either end in his mouth. (1935)](https://film.one/media/person/1227716/gallery-109766ee0241.jpg) Actress Katherine De Mille poses with a dog that stands on his back feet, balancing a branch with two birds on either end in his mouth. (1935) — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Katherine_DeMille_with_trick_dog.jpg/1280px-Katherine_DeMille_with_trick_dog.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Katherine DeMille](https://film.one/media/person/1227716/gallery-119be806b665.jpg) Katherine DeMille — Image via TMDB

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