Kathleen Harrison

Birthday:
02/22/1892
Place of birth:
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK:
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.

Credits

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

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