Cast & creator
Kathleen Harrison
Best known for BBC Play of the Month, ITV Saturday Night Theatre, NBC Experiment in Television
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.
Also known as: Кэтлин Харрисон
80
film credits
7
television credits
87
1931–1999 · acting roles
6.8
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (87)
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BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Ashworth
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Rose
1969
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
1967
Danger UXB
Mrs. Dollery
1979
Oliver Twist
Mrs Sowerberry
1948
Our Mutual Friend
Henrietta Boffin
1976
Scrooge
Mrs. Dilber
1951
Mrs Thursday
1966
Caesar and Cleopatra
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
1945
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Blake
1942
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
Girl in the News
Cook
1940
On the Fiddle
Mrs. Cooksley
1961
Lilacs in the Spring
Kate
1954
The Winslow Boy
Violet
1948
The Pickwick Papers
Rachel Wardle
1952
Cast a Dark Shadow
Emmie
1955
The Shop at Sly Corner
Mrs. Catt
1947
It's a Wonderful World
Miss Gilly
1956
The Big Money
Mrs Frith
1958
Turn the Key Softly
Granny Quilliam
1953
Gaslight
Bit Role
1940
They Came by Night
Mrs. Lightbody
1940
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lady Clumsey
1969
I See a Dark Stranger
Waitress (uncredited)
1946
The Magic Box
Mother in Family Group
1952
Aren't We All?
Bit Role
1932
A Girl Must Live
Penelope
1939
Where There's a Will
Annie Yeo
1955
A Cry from the Streets
Mrs. Farrer
1958
Here Come the Huggetts
Ethel Huggett
1948
Salvage with a Smile
Housekeeper
1940
Trio
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
1950
Night Must Fall
Emily Terence
1937
Waterfront
Mrs. McCabe
1950
The Fast Lady
Mrs. Staggers
1962
Alive and Kicking
Rosie
1959
Major Barbara
Mrs. Price
1941
The Man from Toronto
Martha
1933
All for Mary
Nannie Cartwright
1955
The Dog and the Diamonds
Mrs. Fossett
1953It Happened One Sunday
Mrs. Purkiss
1944
The Ghoul
Kaney
1933
Blondes: Diana Dors
Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
1999
Bank Holiday
May
1938
Wanted for Murder
Florrie
1946
Aren't Men Beasts!
Annie
1937
Seven Thunders
Mme. Abou
1957
Double Confession
Kate
1950
Temptation Harbour
Mabel Slater
1947
Broken Blossoms
Mrs. Lossy
1936
The London Connection
Elderly Lady
1979
West 11
Mrs. Beckett
1963
Now Barabbas
Mrs. Brown
1949
Waterloo Road
1945
Great Day
Pub Customer
1945The Terror
Parlour Maid
1938Discoveries
Kitchen Maid
1939
The Happy Family
Lillian Lord
1952
I Thank You
Kathleen
1941
Home and Away
Elsie Knowles
1956
Dandy Dick
Jane (the Maid)
1935
Letter from Home
Ethel
1941
The Flying Squad
Mrs. Schifan
1940The Day Begins Early
Ethel Huggett
1950
Holiday Camp
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
1947
Golden Arrow
Isobel
1949
Inside the Room
Nurse
1935
Vote for Huggett
Ethel Huggett
1949
The Huggetts Abroad
Ethel Huggett
1949
Bond Street
Ethel Brawn
1948
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Mrs Gibbons
1962
Jury's Evidence
Secretary
1936
The New Lot
Keith's Mother
1943
The Ghost Train
Miss Bourne
1941
What Happened Then?
1934
The Outsider
Mrs. Coates
1939
The Tenth Man
Confused Voter
1936A Call for Arms!
Mrs. James
1940
Much Too Shy
Amelia Peabody
1942
The Great Defender
Agnes Carter
1934
Meet Sexton Blake
Mrs. Bardell
1945
Landfall
Mona's Mother
1949
Convict 99
Mabel
1938Once a Crook
Auntie
1941
Hobson's Choice
Ada Figgins
1931
Wanted!
Belinda
1937