Name
Catherine Lacey
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1904-05-06
Deathday
1979-09-23 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia
Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen.
She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, but was credited as Catherine Lacy. She was subsequently cast in major films like I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), The October Man (1947), Whisky Galore! (1949), The Servant (1963) and The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966), in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. In 1966/67 she played in two notable horror films, as a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and as Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers. For the latter she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968.
Eight years earlier she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year. Her television debut, in 1938, was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi; her last appearance, in 1973, was in the Play for Today instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.
Known For
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- 1961 The Shadow of the Cat as Ella Venable
- 1963 The Servant as Lady Agatha Mounset
- 1949 Whisky Galore! as Mrs. Waggett
- 1970 Wine of India as Bee
- 1967 The Mummy's Shroud as Haiti
- 1967 The Sorcerers as Estelle Monserrat
- 1945 I Know Where I'm Going! as Mrs. Robinson
- 1945 Pink String and Sealing Wax as Miss Porter
- 1958 Rockets Galore as Mrs Waggett
- 1958 Innocent Sinners as Angela Chesney
- 1947 When The Bough Breaks as Almoner
- 1947 The White Unicorn as Miss Cater
- 1946 Carnival as Florry Raeburn
- 1939 Marco Millions
- 1954 Another Sky as Selena Prouse
- 1960 Crack in the Mirror as Mother Superior
- 1939 Poison Pen as Connie Fateley
- 1958 The Master Builder as Aline Solness
- 1940 Castle of Crimes as Francine Rollard
- 1947 The October Man as Miss Selby
- 1958 The Solitary Child as Mrs. Evans
- 1968 All's Well That Ends Well as Countess of Rousillon
- 1957 The Man in the Sky as Mary's mother
- 1938 The Lady Vanishes as The Nun
- 1941 Cottage to Let as Mrs. Stokes
- 1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes as Woman in Wheelchair
- 1973 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont as Mrs. Arbuthnot
- 1945 Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I as Gentlewoman
- 1965 Gideon's Way ( 1 episode ) as Sarah Fischer
- 1968 Journey to the Unknown ( 1 episode ) as Miss Sarah Prinn
- 1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Steinberg
- 1970 The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1 episode ) as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
- 1960 Maigret ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Human Jungle ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Box
- 1963 Festival ( 1 episode ) as The Rat-Wife
- 1972 The Intruder ( 8 episodes ) as Miss Hendry
- 1964 Theatre 625 ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Drama 61-67 ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Mourtzinos
- 1965 The Wednesday Thriller ( 1 episode ) as Miss Chafecote
- 1963 Espionage ( 1 episode ) as Mother
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Frau Mittermayer
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Bee
