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