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