Kathleen Harrison
Acting
87 titles
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
Blondes: Diana Dors
1999
The London Connection
1979
Danger UXB
1979
Our Mutual Friend
1976
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
NBC Experiment in Television
1967
Mrs Thursday
1966
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
West 11
1963
The Fast Lady
1962
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
1962
On the Fiddle
1961
Alive and Kicking
1959
A Cry from the Streets
1958
The Big Money
1958
Seven Thunders
1957
Home and Away
1956
It's a Wonderful World
1956
All for Mary
1955
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955
Where There's a Will
1955
Lilacs in the Spring
1954
The Dog and the Diamonds
1953
Turn the Key Softly
1953
The Pickwick Papers
1952
The Happy Family
1952
The Magic Box
1952
Scrooge
1951
The Day Begins Early
1950
Trio
1950
Waterfront
1950
Double Confession
1950
Golden Arrow
1949
Landfall
1949
Now Barabbas
1949
The Huggetts Abroad
1949
Vote for Huggett
1949
Here Come the Huggetts
1948
The Winslow Boy
1948
Oliver Twist
1948
Bond Street
1948
Holiday Camp
1947
The Shop at Sly Corner
1947
Temptation Harbour
1947
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
Wanted for Murder
1946
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Great Day
1945
Meet Sexton Blake
1945
Waterloo Road
1945
It Happened One Sunday
1944
The New Lot
1943
Much Too Shy
1942
In Which We Serve
1942
Letter from Home
1941
I Thank You
1941
Once a Crook
1941
Major Barbara
1941
The Ghost Train
1941
A Call for Arms!
1940
The Flying Squad
1940
Gaslight
1940
Girl in the News
1940
They Came by Night
1940
Salvage with a Smile
1940
A Girl Must Live
1939
Discoveries
1939
The Outsider
1939
Convict 99
1938
The Terror
1938
Bank Holiday
1938
Wanted!
1937
Night Must Fall
1937
Aren't Men Beasts!
1937
The Tenth Man
1936
Broken Blossoms
1936
Jury's Evidence
1936
Inside the Room
1935
Dandy Dick
1935
The Great Defender
1934
What Happened Then?
1934
The Ghoul
1933
The Man from Toronto
1933
Aren't We All?
1932
Hobson's Choice
1931