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
Cul-de-sac (1966)
as Christopher's Mother
The Key (1958)
as Canteen Worker (uncredited)
Carry On Cabby (1963)
as Molly
A Town Like Alice (1956)
as Ebbey
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
as Mrs. Tucker
Carry On Spying (1964)
as Funhouse Madame
The Idol (1966)
as 1st Woman at Party
Radio Parade (1933)
Actor
Time Without Pity (1957)
as Mrs. Harker
The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
as Miss Brimmer
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
as Helen Burke
Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
as Agatha Spanner
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
as Sara Monday
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
as Beattie
The Comic (1969)
as Olive
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962)
as Matron
Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
as Mrs. Mottram
Nurse on Wheels (1963)
as Mrs. Beacon
Track the Man Down (1955)
as Pat Sherwood
Tomorrow at Ten (1963)
as Masie Maddox
Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
as Chou-Chou
The Big Money (1958)
as Bobbie
And the Same to You (1960)
as Mildred Pomphret
The Peterville Diamond (1943)
as Lady Margaret
A Girl Must Live (1939)
as Gloria Lind
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
as Lady Blanchflower
Old Bill and Son (1941)
as Stella Malloy
Come Into My Parlour (1932)
as Jenny MacDonald
Two Thousand Women (1944)
as Maud Wright
No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
as Miss Yardley
Three on a Spree (1961)
as Mrs. Gray
Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966)
Actor
Mister Cinders (1935)
as Mrs. Phipps
Out of the Fog (1962)
as Ma
The Rescue Squad (1963)
as Mrs Manse
The Nice Americans (1958)
as Mrs. Adams
No Monkey Business (1935)
Actor
Their Night Out (1933)
as Maggie Oliphant
Happy Days Are Here Again (1936)
as Kitty Seymour
Down Melody Lane (1943)
as Self
Fine Feathers (1937)
as Teenie McPherson
River Rivals (1967)
as Mrs. Fredericks
Lost In The Legion (1934)
as Mary McFee