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