Renée Houston
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Renée Houston (24 July 1902 - 9 February 1980) was a Scottish comedy actress and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles. Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gribbin she toured music halls and revues with her sister Billie Houston as the "Houston Sisters". In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film, the script of which Renée had written. It was produced by Lee De Forest, whose process, Phonofilm, enabled a soundtrack to be played alongside the film (a year before The Jazz Singer). Houston married three times, the second was to the actor Pat Aherne, the brother of Brian Aherne. Her third husband was the actor Donald Stewart. In her later years, she specialised in "battleaxe" roles, notably as shop steward Vic Spanner's (Kenneth Cope) formidable mother in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled Don't Fence Me In. Houston was also in the early episodes of radio's The Clitheroe Kid and a regular guest on radio panel show The Petticoat Line chaired by Anona Winn. She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
Credits
Repulsion (1965)
as Mme Balch
Time Without Pity (1957)
as Mrs. Harker
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
as Mrs. Tucker
Cul-de-sac (1966)
as Christopher's Mother
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
as Helen Burke
The Comic (1969)
as Olive
Radio Parade (1933)
Actor
The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
as Miss Brimmer
Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
as Agatha Spanner
Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
as Chou-Chou
Carry On Cabby (1963)
as Molly
The Key (1958)
as Canteen Worker (uncredited)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
as Ebbey
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
as Beattie
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
as Sara Monday
Carry On Spying (1964)
as Funhouse Madame
Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
as Mrs. Mottram
Come Into My Parlour (1932)
as Jenny MacDonald
A Girl Must Live (1939)
as Gloria Lind
And the Same to You (1960)
as Mildred Pomphret
The Rescue Squad (1963)
as Mrs Manse
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962)
as Matron
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
as Lady Blanchflower
Three on a Spree (1961)
as Mrs. Gray
Out of the Fog (1962)
as Ma
Track the Man Down (1955)
as Pat Sherwood
The Idol (1966)
as 1st Woman at Party
No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
as Miss Yardley
Old Bill and Son (1941)
as Stella Malloy
The Peterville Diamond (1943)
as Lady Margaret
Nurse on Wheels (1963)
as Mrs. Beacon
Happy Days Are Here Again (1936)
as Kitty Seymour
Lost In The Legion (1934)
as Mary McFee
Tomorrow at Ten (1963)
as Masie Maddox
Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966)
Actor
No Monkey Business (1935)
Actor
The Big Money (1958)
as Bobbie
Mister Cinders (1935)
as Mrs. Phipps
River Rivals (1967)
as Mrs. Fredericks
Two Thousand Women (1944)
as Maud Wright
Down Melody Lane (1943)
as Self
Their Night Out (1933)
as Maggie Oliphant
The Nice Americans (1958)
as Mrs. Adams
Fine Feathers (1937)
as Teenie McPherson