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