Cast & creator
Catherine Lacey
Best known for The Wednesday Play, The Wednesday Play, Theatre 625
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.
28
film credits
14
television credits
42
1938–1973 · acting roles
7.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (42)
Showing 42 of 42 credits
The Wednesday Play
Frau Mittermayer
1964The Wednesday Play
Bee
1964
Theatre 625
1964
Maigret
1960Drama 61-67
Mrs. Mourtzinos
1961
Espionage
Mother
1963
Gideon's Way
Sarah Fischer
1965
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Mrs Steinberg
1971Festival
The Rat-Wife
1963
The Human Jungle
Mrs. Box
1963
Journey to the Unknown
Miss Sarah Prinn
1968
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
1970
The Lady Vanishes
The Nun
1938
The Servant
Lady Agatha Mounset
1963The Wednesday Thriller
Miss Chafecote
1965
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Woman in Wheelchair
1970
The Intruder
Miss Hendry
1972
The Mummy's Shroud
Haiti
1967
I Know Where I'm Going!
Mrs. Robinson
1945
The Shadow of the Cat
Ella Venable
1961
Innocent Sinners
Angela Chesney
1958
Poison Pen
Connie Fateley
1939
Whisky Galore!
Mrs. Waggett
1949
The Man in the Sky
Mary's mother
1957
The October Man
Miss Selby
1947
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Miss Porter
1945
The Sorcerers
Estelle Monserrat
1967Marco Millions
1939
Crack in the Mirror
Mother Superior
1960When The Bough Breaks
Almoner
1947All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rousillon
1968
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Arbuthnot
1973
Cottage to Let
Mrs. Stokes
1941Wine of India
Bee
1970
Another Sky
Selena Prouse
1954
Rockets Galore
Mrs Waggett
1958Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
Gentlewoman
1945
The White Unicorn
Miss Cater
1947
Carnival
Florry Raeburn
1946
The Solitary Child
Mrs. Evans
1958
Castle of Crimes
Francine Rollard
1940
The Master Builder
Aline Solness
1958