Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Kathleen Harrison
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Jury's Evidence | Secretary | 1936 |
Scrooge | Mrs. Dilber | 1951 |
Cast a Dark Shadow | Emmie | 1955 |
The Ghoul | Kaney | 1933 |
The Ghost Train | Miss Bourne | 1941 |
Double Confession | Kate | 1950 |
The Fast Lady | Mrs. Staggers | 1962 |
Bank Holiday | May | 1938 |
Convict 99 | Mabel | 1938 |
Wanted for Murder | Florrie | 1946 |
The Shop at Sly Corner | Mrs. Catt | 1947 |
Night Must Fall | Emily Terence | 1937 |
The Winslow Boy | Violet | 1948 |
Waterfront | Mrs. McCabe | 1950 |
Turn the Key Softly | Granny Quilliam | 1953 |
Once a Crook | Auntie | 1941 |
Trio | Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger) | 1950 |
Now Barabbas | Mrs. Brown | 1949 |
The Big Money | Mrs Frith | 1958 |
On the Fiddle | Mrs. Cooksley | 1961 |
Seven Thunders | Mme. Abou | 1957 |
Lock Up Your Daughters | Lady Clumsey | 1969 |
They Came by Night | Mrs. Lightbody | 1940 |
Landfall | Mona's Mother | 1949 |
Alive and Kicking | Rosie | 1959 |
Meet Sexton Blake | Mrs. Bardell | 1945 |
Bond Street | Ethel Brawn | 1948 |
It Happened One Sunday | Mrs. Purkiss | 1944 |
Here Come the Huggetts | Ethel Huggett | 1948 |
Vote for Huggett | Ethel Huggett | 1949 |
The Huggetts Abroad | Ethel Huggett | 1949 |
Holiday Camp | Mrs. Ethel Huggett | 1947 |
Lilacs in the Spring | Kate | 1954 |
Much Too Shy | Amelia Peabody | 1942 |
Where There's a Will | Annie Yeo | 1955 |
The Happy Family | Lillian Lord | 1952 |
It's a Wonderful World | Miss Gilly | 1956 |
Letter from Home | Ethel | 1941 |
Temptation Harbour | Mabel Slater | 1947 |
The Man from Toronto | Martha | 1933 |
A Cry from the Streets | Mrs. Farrer | 1958 |
The Flying Squad | Mrs. Schifan | 1940 |
A Girl Must Live | Penelope | 1939 |
The Great Defender | Agnes Carter | 1934 |
The London Connection | Elderly Lady | 1979 |
Home and Away | Elsie Knowles | 1956 |
Girl in the News | Cook | 1940 |
Gaslight | Bit Role | 1940 |
The Tenth Man | Confused Voter | 1936 |
The Outsider | Mrs. Coates | 1939 |
Aren't We All? | Bit Role | 1932 |
Golden Arrow | Isobel | 1949 |
The Dog and the Diamonds | Mrs. Fossett | 1953 |
Aren't Men Beasts! | Annie | 1937 |
I Thank You | Kathleen | 1941 |
What Happened Then? | 1934 | |
Major Barbara | Mrs. Price | 1941 |
The Magic Box | Mother in Family Group | 1952 |
Oliver Twist | Mrs Sowerberry | 1948 |
Hobson's Choice | Ada Figgins | 1931 |
Broken Blossoms | Mrs. Lossy | 1936 |
Discoveries | Kitchen Maid | 1939 |
West 11 | Mrs. Beckett | 1963 |
All for Mary | Nannie Cartwright | 1955 |
The Terror | Parlour Maid | 1938 |
The New Lot | Keith's Mother | 1943 |
Dandy Dick | Jane (the Maid) | 1935 |
In Which We Serve | Mrs. Blake | 1942 |
The Pickwick Papers | Rachel Wardle | 1952 |
I See a Dark Stranger | Waitress (uncredited) | 1946 |
Wanted! | Belinda | 1937 |
Caesar and Cleopatra | Egyptian Woman (uncredited) | 1945 |
Great Day | Pub Customer | 1945 |
Salvage with a Smile | Housekeeper | 1940 |
A Call for Arms! | Mrs. James | 1940 |
Lethal Weapon | Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1987 |
Waterloo Road | 1945 | |
The Day Begins Early | 1970 | |
Inside the Room | Nurse | 1935 | Series | Cast | Year |
Mrs Thursday | 1966 | |
Martin Chuzzlewit | 1964 | |
Our Mutual Friend | Mrs. Henrietta Boffin | 1976 |
NBC Experiment in Television | (voice) | 1967 |
Danger UXB | Mrs. Dollery | 1979 |