Kathleen Harrison
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.
Known For
Secretary
Jury's Evidence
Mrs. Dilber
Scrooge
Emmie
Cast a Dark Shadow
Kaney
The Ghoul
Miss Bourne
The Ghost Train
Kate
Double Confession
Mrs. Staggers
The Fast Lady
May
Bank Holiday
Mabel
Convict 99
Florrie
Wanted for Murder
Mrs. Catt
The Shop at Sly Corner
Emily Terence
Night Must Fall
Violet
The Winslow Boy
Mrs. McCabe
Waterfront
Granny Quilliam
Turn the Key Softly
Auntie
Once a Crook
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Trio
Mrs. Brown
Now Barabbas
Mrs Frith
The Big Money
Mrs. Cooksley
On the Fiddle
Mme. Abou
Seven Thunders
Lady Clumsey
Lock Up Your Daughters
Mrs. Lightbody
They Came by Night
Mona's Mother
Landfall
Rosie
Alive and Kicking
Mrs. Bardell
Meet Sexton Blake
Ethel Brawn
Bond Street
Mrs. Purkiss
It Happened One Sunday
Ethel Huggett
Here Come the Huggetts
Ethel Huggett
Vote for Huggett
Ethel Huggett
The Huggetts Abroad
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
Holiday Camp
Kate
Lilacs in the Spring
Amelia Peabody
Much Too Shy
Annie Yeo
Where There's a Will
Lillian Lord
The Happy Family
Miss Gilly
It's a Wonderful World
Ethel
Letter from Home
Mabel Slater
Temptation Harbour
Martha
The Man from Toronto
Mrs. Farrer
A Cry from the Streets
Mrs. Schifan
The Flying Squad
Penelope
A Girl Must Live
Agnes Carter
The Great Defender
Elderly Lady
The London Connection
Elsie Knowles
Home and Away
Cook
Girl in the News
Bit Role
Gaslight
Confused Voter
The Tenth Man
Mrs. Coates
The Outsider
Bit Role
Aren't We All?
Isobel
Golden Arrow
Mrs. Fossett
The Dog and the Diamonds
Annie
Aren't Men Beasts!
Kathleen
I Thank You
What Happened Then?
Mrs. Price
Major Barbara
Mother in Family Group
The Magic Box
Mrs Sowerberry
Oliver Twist
Ada Figgins
Hobson's Choice
Mrs. Lossy
Broken Blossoms
Kitchen Maid
Discoveries
Mrs. Beckett
West 11
Nannie Cartwright
All for Mary
Parlour Maid
The Terror
Keith's Mother
The New Lot
Jane (the Maid)
Dandy Dick
Mrs. Blake
In Which We Serve
Rachel Wardle
The Pickwick Papers
Waitress (uncredited)
I See a Dark Stranger
Belinda
Wanted!
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
Caesar and Cleopatra
Pub Customer
Great Day
Housekeeper
Salvage with a Smile
Mrs. James
A Call for Arms!
Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lethal Weapon
Waterloo Road
Ethel Huggett
The Day Begins Early
Nurse
Inside the Room
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Female
Birthday
1892-02-22
Place of Birth
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
Кэтлин Харрисон