Katherine Duffy (1872-1943) emigrated to America from Ireland as a child, and began a stage career in 1890.
It is claimed in some sources that she made her screen debut in 1902, but no film is named nor evidence provided. More certain is that she made shorts for the New York Kalem Company in 1910. Later, she worked in Florida, partnered with a young Oliver Hardy.
Price relocated to Hollywood in 1917 and found regular character work at a variety of studios. In 1926 she played the matriarch of the Kelly family in The Cohens and the Kellys, the first in a popular series of seven ethnic comedies.
Kate Price is thought to have made around 300 shorts and features, one of which was MGM’s The Rogue Song, in which she played the maidservant Petrovna.
