Kathleen Harrison
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Oliver Twist
1948
as Mrs Sowerberry
Scrooge
1951
as Mrs. Dilber
In Which We Serve
1942
as Mrs. Blake
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
Gaslight
1940
as Bit Role
Major Barbara
1941
as Mrs. Price
Bank Holiday
1938
as May
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955
as Emmie
The Magic Box
1952
as Mother in Family Group
The Ghoul
1933
as Kaney
On the Fiddle
1961
as Mrs. Cooksley
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
as Lady Clumsey
The London Connection
1979
as Elderly Lady
Girl in the News
1940
as Cook
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Waitress (uncredited)
Trio
1950
as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
A Girl Must Live
1939
as Penelope
West 11
1963
as Mrs. Beckett
Night Must Fall
1937
as Emily Terence
Turn the Key Softly
1953
as Granny Quilliam