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.
Movie | Neurons to Nirvana | Self | 2013-10-19 |
Movie | DMT: The Spirit Molecule | Herself - Ethnobotanist | 2010-10-15 |
Movie | Lethal Weapon | Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1987-03-06 |
Movie | The London Connection | Elderly Lady | 1979-12-21 |
Movie | Lock Up Your Daughters | Lady Clumsey | 1969-03-29 |
Series | Mrs Thursday | 1966-03-15 | |
Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Unknown | 1964-01-19 |
Movie | West 11 | Mrs. Beckett | 1963-10-08 |
Movie | The Fast Lady | Mrs. Staggers | 1962-12-14 |
Movie | On the Fiddle | Mrs. Cooksley | 1961-10-10 |
Movie | Alive and Kicking | Rosie | 1959-07-13 |
Movie | The Big Money | Mrs Frith | 1958-06-09 |
Movie | A Cry from the Streets | Mrs. Farrer | 1958-08-12 |
Movie | Seven Thunders | Mme. Abou | 1957-09-04 |
Movie | It's a Wonderful World | Miss Gilly | 1956-08-28 |
Movie | Home and Away | Elsie Knowles | 1956-09-04 |
Movie | Where There's a Will | Annie Yeo | 1955-03-01 |
Movie | Cast a Dark Shadow | Emmie | 1955-09-20 |
Movie | All for Mary | Nannie Cartwright | 1955-12-21 |
Movie | Lilacs in the Spring | Kate | 1954-12-21 |
Movie | The Dog and the Diamonds | Mrs. Fossett | 1953-11-01 |
Movie | Turn the Key Softly | Granny Quilliam | 1953-04-29 |
Movie | The Magic Box | Mother in Family Group | 1952-01-01 |
Movie | The Pickwick Papers | Rachel Wardle | 1952-11-14 |
Movie | The Happy Family | Lillian Lord | 1952-03-30 |
Movie | Scrooge | Mrs. Dilber | 1951-11-28 |
Movie | Trio | Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger) | 1950-10-10 |
Movie | Double Confession | Kate | 1950-04-30 |
Movie | Waterfront | Mrs. McCabe | 1950-07-26 |
Movie | Vote for Huggett | Ethel Huggett | 1949-02-01 |
Movie | The Huggetts Abroad | Ethel Huggett | 1949-03-21 |
Movie | Golden Arrow | Isobel | 1949-12-31 |
Movie | Now Barabbas | Mrs. Brown | 1949-05-24 |
Movie | Landfall | Mona's Mother | 1949-09-30 |
Movie | Oliver Twist | Mrs Sowerberry | 1948-06-28 |
Movie | Bond Street | Ethel Brawn | 1948-05-12 |
Movie | The Winslow Boy | Violet | 1948-09-24 |
Movie | Here Come the Huggetts | Ethel Huggett | 1948-12-02 |
Movie | Temptation Harbour | Mabel Slater | 1947-02-27 |
Movie | The Shop at Sly Corner | Mrs. Catt | 1947-03-10 |
Movie | Holiday Camp | Mrs. Ethel Huggett | 1947-08-05 |
Movie | Wanted for Murder | Florrie | 1946-06-17 |
Movie | I See a Dark Stranger | Waitress (uncredited) | 1946-07-04 |
Movie | Meet Sexton Blake | Mrs. Bardell | 1945-02-05 |
Movie | Waterloo Road | 1945-02-05 | |
Movie | Caesar and Cleopatra | Egyptian Woman (uncredited) | 1945-12-11 |
Movie | Great Day | Pub Customer | 1945-07-09 |
Movie | It Happened One Sunday | Mrs. Purkiss | 1944-07-28 |
Movie | The New Lot | Keith's Mother | 1943-01-01 |
Movie | Much Too Shy | Amelia Peabody | 1942-10-12 |
Movie | In Which We Serve | Mrs. Blake | 1942-09-17 |
Movie | Major Barbara | Mrs. Price | 1941-05-14 |
Movie | The Ghost Train | Miss Bourne | 1941-05-05 |
Movie | Once a Crook | Auntie | 1941-08-23 |
Movie | I Thank You | Kathleen | 1941-10-20 |
Movie | They Came by Night | Mrs. Lightbody | 1940-03-07 |
Movie | Girl in the News | Cook | 1940-08-28 |
Movie | Salvage with a Smile | Housekeeper | 1940-01-01 |
Movie | Gaslight | Bit Role | 1940-08-31 |
Movie | The Flying Squad | Mrs. Schifan | 1940-10-12 |
Movie | Discoveries | Kitchen Maid | 1939-09-15 |
Movie | The Outsider | Mrs. Coates | 1939-01-30 |
Movie | A Girl Must Live | Penelope | 1939-09-24 |
Movie | Bank Holiday | May | 1938-01-27 |
Movie | The Terror | Parlour Maid | 1938-05-02 |
Movie | Convict 99 | Mabel | 1938-09-26 |
Movie | Night Must Fall | Emily Terence | 1937-04-30 |
Movie | Aren't Men Beasts! | Annie | 1937-01-19 |
Movie | Wanted! | Belinda | 1937-08-23 |
Movie | Jury's Evidence | Secretary | 1936-01-01 |
Movie | Broken Blossoms | Mrs. Lossy | 1936-05-20 |
Movie | The Tenth Man | Confused Voter | 1936-08-12 |
Movie | Dandy Dick | Jane (the Maid) | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | What Happened Then? | 1934-09-24 | |
Movie | The Great Defender | Agnes Carter | 1934-11-26 |
Movie | The Ghoul | Kaney | 1933-08-01 |
Movie | The Man from Toronto | Martha | 1933-01-01 |
Movie | Aren't We All? | Bit Role | 1932-03-17 |
Movie | Hobson's Choice | Ada Figgins | 1931-10-02 |