Kathleen Harrison
Born: 1892-02-22 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Died: 1995-12-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1999
- Blondes: Diana Dors as Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
1979
- The London Connection as Elderly Lady
- Danger UXB as Mrs. Dollery
1976
- Our Mutual Friend as Henrietta Boffin
1969
- Lock Up Your Daughters as Lady Clumsey
1967
- NBC Experiment in Television as (voice)
1966
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Mrs. Ashworth
1964
1963
- West 11 as Mrs. Beckett
1962
- The Fast Lady as Mrs. Staggers
- Mrs. Gibbons' Boys as Mrs Gibbons
1961
- On the Fiddle as Mrs. Cooksley
1959
- Alive and Kicking as Rosie
1958
- The Big Money as Mrs Frith
- A Cry from the Streets as Mrs. Farrer
1957
- Seven Thunders as Mme. Abou
1956
- It's a Wonderful World as Miss Gilly
- Home and Away as Elsie Knowles
1955
- Where There's a Will as Annie Yeo
- Cast a Dark Shadow as Emmie
- All for Mary as Nannie Cartwright
1954
- Lilacs in the Spring as Kate
1953
- Turn the Key Softly as Granny Quilliam
- The Dog and the Diamonds as Mrs. Fossett
1952
- The Magic Box as Mother in Family Group
- The Pickwick Papers as Rachel Wardle
- The Happy Family as Lillian Lord
1951
- Scrooge as Mrs. Dilber
1950
- Trio as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
- Waterfront as Mrs. McCabe
- The Day Begins Early as Ethel Huggett
- Double Confession as Kate
1949
- Landfall as Mona's Mother
- Now Barabbas as Mrs. Brown
- The Huggetts Abroad as Ethel Huggett
- Vote for Huggett as Ethel Huggett
- Golden Arrow as Isobel
1948
- Bond Street as Ethel Brawn
- Oliver Twist as Mrs Sowerberry
- The Winslow Boy as Violet
- Here Come the Huggetts as Ethel Huggett
1947
- Holiday Camp as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
- Temptation Harbour as Mabel Slater
- The Shop at Sly Corner as Mrs. Catt
1946
- Wanted for Murder as Florrie
- I See a Dark Stranger as Waitress (uncredited)
1945
- Great Day as Pub Customer
- Waterloo Road
- Caesar and Cleopatra as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
- Meet Sexton Blake as Mrs. Bardell
1944
- It Happened One Sunday as Mrs. Purkiss
1943
- The New Lot as Keith's Mother
1942
- In Which We Serve as Mrs. Blake
- Much Too Shy as Amelia Peabody
1941
- Major Barbara as Mrs. Price
- The Ghost Train as Miss Bourne
- I Thank You as Kathleen
- Once a Crook as Auntie
- Letter from Home as Ethel
1940
- They Came by Night as Mrs. Lightbody
- The Flying Squad as Mrs. Schifan
- Salvage with a Smile as Housekeeper
- Girl in the News as Cook
- Gaslight as Bit Role
- A Call for Arms! as Mrs. James
1939
- The Outsider as Mrs. Coates
- A Girl Must Live as Penelope
- Discoveries as Kitchen Maid
1938
- Convict 99 as Mabel
- The Terror as Parlour Maid
- Bank Holiday as May
1937
- Night Must Fall as Emily Terence
- Wanted! as Belinda
- Aren't Men Beasts! as Annie
1936
- Broken Blossoms as Mrs. Lossy
- Jury's Evidence as Secretary
- The Tenth Man as Confused Voter
1935
- Dandy Dick as Jane (the Maid)
- Inside the Room as Nurse
1934
- The Great Defender as Agnes Carter
- What Happened Then?
1933
- The Ghoul as Kaney
- The Man from Toronto as Martha
1932
- Aren't We All? as Bit Role
1931
- Hobson's Choice as Ada Figgins