Name
Kathleen Harrison
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1892-02-22
Deathday
1995-12-07 (103 years old)
Place of Birth
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography
Kathleen Harrison was long a stalwart of British cinema. Her place was always firmly below stairs – a cook perhaps, or a cleaning lady often answering the door with a puzzled expression always fearful that trouble was just around the corner.
She was born in 1892 in Blackburn in Lancashire. She studied at RADA and then went to live in Agentina for some time. On her return to Britain, she made her stage debut in 1926 in “The Constant Flirt”. Her first major film role was in 1931 in “Hobson’s Choice”. Kathleen Harrison made one film in Hollywood in Emlyn Williams “Night Must Fall” in 1937 as a maid (naturally). She achieved national fame as Mrs Huggett in four films about the Huggett family. In the mid 1960′s she starred in a very popular television series Mrs Thursday about a cleaner who won the football pools. She died in 1995 at the age of 103.
Known For
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At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by th...
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Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the gi...
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Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France....
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In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but h...
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The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and t...
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A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tyc...
- 1936 Jury's Evidence as Secretary
- 1951 Scrooge as Mrs. Dilber
- 1955 Cast a Dark Shadow as Emmie
- 1933 The Ghoul as Kaney
- 1941 The Ghost Train as Miss Bourne
- 1950 Double Confession as Kate
- 1962 The Fast Lady as Mrs. Staggers
- 1938 Bank Holiday as May
- 1938 Convict 99 as Mabel
- 1946 Wanted for Murder as Florrie
- 1947 The Shop at Sly Corner as Mrs. Catt
- 1937 Night Must Fall as Emily Terence
- 1948 The Winslow Boy as Violet
- 1950 Waterfront as Mrs. McCabe
- 1953 Turn the Key Softly as Granny Quilliam
- 1941 Once a Crook as Auntie
- 1949 Now Barabbas as Mrs. Brown
- 1950 Trio as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
- 1958 The Big Money as Mrs Frith
- 1961 On the Fiddle as Mrs. Cooksley
- 1957 Seven Thunders as Mme. Abou
- 1969 Lock Up Your Daughters as Lady Clumsey
- 1940 They Came by Night as Mrs. Lightbody
- 1949 Landfall as Mona's Mother
- 1959 Alive and Kicking as Rosie
- 1945 Meet Sexton Blake as Mrs. Bardell
- 1948 Bond Street as Ethel Brawn
- 1944 It Happened One Sunday as Mrs. Purkiss
- 1949 Vote for Huggett as Ethel Huggett
- 1949 The Huggetts Abroad as Ethel Huggett
- 1948 Here Come the Huggetts as Ethel Huggett
- 1947 Holiday Camp as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
- 1954 Lilacs in the Spring as Kate
- 1942 Much Too Shy as Amelia Peabody
- 1955 Where There's a Will as Annie Yeo
- 1952 The Happy Family as Lillian Lord
- 1956 It's a Wonderful World as Miss Gilly
- 1941 Letter from Home as Ethel
- 1947 Temptation Harbour as Mabel Slater
- 1933 The Man from Toronto as Martha
- 1958 A Cry from the Streets as Mrs. Farrer
- 1940 The Flying Squad as Mrs. Schifan
- 1939 A Girl Must Live as Penelope
- 1934 The Great Defender as Agnes Carter
- 1979 The London Connection as Elderly Lady
- 1956 Home and Away as Elsie Knowles
- 1940 Gaslight as Bit Role
- 1940 Girl in the News as Cook
- 1936 The Tenth Man as Confused Voter
- 1939 The Outsider as Mrs. Coates
- 1932 Aren't We All? as Bit Role
- 1949 Golden Arrow as Isobel
- 1953 The Dog and the Diamonds as Mrs. Fossett
- 1937 Aren't Men Beasts! as Annie
- 1941 I Thank You as Kathleen
- 1934 What Happened Then?
- 1941 Major Barbara as Mrs. Price
- 1952 The Magic Box as Mother in Family Group
- 1948 Oliver Twist as Mrs Sowerberry
- 1931 Hobson's Choice as Ada Figgins
- 1936 Broken Blossoms as Mrs. Lossy
- 1939 Discoveries as Kitchen Maid
- 1963 West 11 as Mrs. Beckett
- 1955 All for Mary as Nannie Cartwright
- 1938 The Terror as Parlour Maid
- 1943 The New Lot as Keith's Mother
- 1935 Dandy Dick as Jane (the Maid)
- 1942 In Which We Serve as Mrs. Blake
- 1952 The Pickwick Papers as Rachel Wardle
- 1946 I See a Dark Stranger as Waitress (uncredited)
- 1937 Wanted! as Belinda
- 1945 Caesar and Cleopatra as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
- 1945 Great Day as Pub Customer
- 1940 Salvage with a Smile as Housekeeper
- 1940 A Call for Arms! as Mrs. James
- 1945 Waterloo Road
- 1950 The Day Begins Early as Ethel Huggett
- 1935 Inside the Room as Nurse
- 1962 Mrs. Gibbons' Boys as Mrs Gibbons
- 1999 Blondes: Diana Dors as Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
- 1966 Mrs Thursday ( 38 episodes )
- 1964 Martin Chuzzlewit ( 3 episodes )
- 1967 NBC Experiment in Television ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
- 1979 Danger UXB ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Dollery
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Ashworth
- 1976 Our Mutual Friend ( 4 episodes ) as Henrietta Boffin
- 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Rose
