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