Catherine Lacey
Born: 1904-05-06 in London, England, UK
Died: 1979-09-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen. She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, but was credited as Catherine Lacy. She was subsequently cast in major films like I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), The October Man (1947), Whisky Galore! (1949), The Servant (1963) and The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966), in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. In 1966/67 she played in two notable horror films, as a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and as Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers. For the latter she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968. Eight years earlier she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year. Her television debut, in 1938, was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi; her last appearance, in 1973, was in the Play for Today instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.
Filmography
1973
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont as Mrs. Arbuthnot
1972
- The Intruder as Miss Hendry
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Mrs Steinberg
1970
- Wine of India as Bee
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes as Woman in Wheelchair
1968
- Journey to the Unknown
- All's Well That Ends Well as Countess of Rousillon
1967
- The Sorcerers as Estelle Monserrat
- The Mummy's Shroud as Haiti
1965
- Gideon's Way as Sarah Fischer
1964
1963
- The Servant as Lady Agatha Mounset
- The Human Jungle as Mrs. Box
- Festival as The Rat-Wife
1961
- The Shadow of the Cat as Ella Venable
1960
- Maigret
- Crack in the Mirror as Mother Superior
1958
- Innocent Sinners as Angela Chesney
- The Master Builder as Mrs. Solness
- The Solitary Child as Mrs. Evans
- Rockets Galore as Mrs Waggett
1957
- The Man in the Sky as Mary's mother
1954
- Another Sky as Selena Prouse
1949
- Whisky Galore! as Mrs. Waggett
1947
- The October Man as Miss Selby
- When The Bough Breaks as Almoner
- The White Unicorn as Miss Cater
1946
- Carnival as Florry Raeburn
1945
- I Know Where I'm Going! as Mrs. Robinson
- Pink String and Sealing Wax as Miss Porter
- Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I as Gentlewoman
1941
- Cottage to Let as Mrs. Stokes
1940
- Castle of Crimes as Francine Rollard
1939
- Poison Pen as Connie Fateley
- Marco Millions
1938
- The Lady Vanishes as The Nun