Kathleen Harrison
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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
Credits
Oliver Twist (1948)
as Mrs Sowerberry
Scrooge (1951)
as Mrs. Dilber
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
In Which We Serve (1942)
as Mrs. Blake
The Winslow Boy (1948)
as Violet
Gaslight (1940)
as Bit Role
The Ghoul (1933)
as Kaney
The Magic Box (1952)
as Mother in Family Group
The Fast Lady (1962)
as Mrs. Staggers
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
as Emmie
Night Must Fall (1937)
as Emily Terence
Girl in the News (1940)
as Cook
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
as Rachel Wardle
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
as Lady Clumsey
On the Fiddle (1961)
as Mrs. Cooksley
They Came by Night (1940)
as Mrs. Lightbody
Major Barbara (1941)
as Mrs. Price
I Thank You (1941)
as Kathleen
Wanted for Murder (1946)
as Florrie
Discoveries (1939)
as Kitchen Maid
Seven Thunders (1957)
as Mme. Abou
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
as Kate
Letter from Home (1941)
as Ethel
The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
as Mrs. Catt
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
as Waitress (uncredited)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
as Ethel Huggett
A Girl Must Live (1939)
as Penelope
Bank Holiday (1938)
as May
Holiday Camp (1947)
as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
Inside the Room (1935)
as Nurse
Bond Street (1948)
as Ethel Brawn
The Big Money (1958)
as Mrs Frith
West 11 (1963)
as Mrs. Beckett
Waterfront (1950)
as Mrs. McCabe
Where There's a Will (1955)
as Annie Yeo
Now Barabbas (1949)
as Mrs. Brown
A Cry from the Streets (1958)
as Mrs. Farrer
It's a Wonderful World (1956)
as Miss Gilly
Golden Arrow (1949)
as Isobel
Trio (1950)
as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
as Ethel Huggett
Great Day (1945)
as Pub Customer
The Happy Family (1952)
as Lillian Lord
The London Connection (1979)
as Elderly Lady
Waterloo Road (1945)
Actor
Blondes: Diana Dors (1999)
as Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
Aren't We All? (1932)
as Bit Role
Double Confession (1950)
as Kate
Alive and Kicking (1959)
as Rosie
Landfall (1949)
as Mona's Mother
The New Lot (1943)
as Keith's Mother
The Outsider (1939)
as Mrs. Coates
All for Mary (1955)
as Nannie Cartwright
Home and Away (1956)
as Elsie Knowles
Temptation Harbour (1947)
as Mabel Slater
The Ghost Train (1941)
as Miss Bourne
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
as Ethel Huggett
The Great Defender (1934)
as Agnes Carter
Once a Crook (1941)
as Auntie
Broken Blossoms (1936)
as Mrs. Lossy
The Terror (1938)
as Parlour Maid
Convict 99 (1938)
as Mabel
Turn the Key Softly (1953)
as Granny Quilliam
The Tenth Man (1936)
as Confused Voter
Much Too Shy (1942)
as Amelia Peabody
Salvage with a Smile (1940)
as Housekeeper
What Happened Then? (1934)
Actor
The Flying Squad (1940)
as Mrs. Schifan
The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
as Mrs. Fossett
The Man from Toronto (1933)
as Martha
Dandy Dick (1935)
as Jane (the Maid)
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962)
as Mrs Gibbons
Hobson's Choice (1931)
as Ada Figgins
Jury's Evidence (1936)
as Secretary
Meet Sexton Blake (1945)
as Mrs. Bardell
The Day Begins Early (1950)
as Ethel Huggett
Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
as Annie
Wanted! (1937)
as Belinda
A Call for Arms! (1940)
as Mrs. James
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
as Mrs. Purkiss