Kathleen Harrison

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-02-22 (103 years old)

Deathday

1995-12-07

Place of Birth

Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

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...

Acting

1936

Jury's Evidence

as Secretary

1951

Scrooge

as Mrs. Dilber

1955

1933

The Ghoul

as Kaney

1941

The Ghost Train

as Miss Bourne

1962

The Fast Lady

as Mrs. Staggers

1938

1938

Convict 99

as Mabel

1946

1947

1937

Night Must Fall

as Emily Terence

1948

1950

Waterfront

as Mrs. McCabe

1953

Turn the Key Softly

as Granny Quilliam

1941

Once a Crook

as Auntie

1949

Now Barabbas

as Mrs. Brown

1950

Trio

as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)

1958

The Big Money

as Mrs Frith

1961

On the Fiddle

as Mrs. Cooksley

1957

Seven Thunders

as Mme. Abou

1969

Lock Up Your Daughters

as Lady Clumsey

1940

They Came by Night

as Mrs. Lightbody

1949

Landfall

as Mona's Mother

1959

1945

Meet Sexton Blake

as Mrs. Bardell

1948

Bond Street

as Ethel Brawn

1944

It Happened One Sunday

as Mrs. Purkiss

1949

Vote for Huggett

as Ethel Huggett

1949

The Huggetts Abroad

as Ethel Huggett

1948

Here Come the Huggetts

as Ethel Huggett

1947

Holiday Camp

as Mrs. Ethel Huggett

1942

Much Too Shy

as Amelia Peabody

1955

1952

The Happy Family

as Lillian Lord

1956

1941

1947

Temptation Harbour

as Mabel Slater

1958

1940

The Flying Squad

as Mrs. Schifan

1939

A Girl Must Live

as Penelope

1934

The Great Defender

as Agnes Carter

1979

The London Connection

as Elderly Lady

1956

Home and Away

as Elsie Knowles

1940

Gaslight

as Bit Role

1940

1936

The Tenth Man

as Confused Voter

1939

The Outsider

as Mrs. Coates

1932

Aren't We All?

as Bit Role

1949

Golden Arrow

as Isobel

1953

1937

1941

I Thank You

as Kathleen

1941

Major Barbara

as Mrs. Price

1952

The Magic Box

as Mother in Family Group

1948

Oliver Twist

as Mrs Sowerberry

1931

Hobson's Choice

as Ada Figgins

1936

Broken Blossoms

as Mrs. Lossy

1939

Discoveries

as Kitchen Maid

1963

West 11

as Mrs. Beckett

1955

All for Mary

as Nannie Cartwright

1938

The Terror

as Parlour Maid

1943

The New Lot

as Keith's Mother

1935

Dandy Dick

as Jane (the Maid)

1942

In Which We Serve

as Mrs. Blake

1952

The Pickwick Papers

as Rachel Wardle

1946

I See a Dark Stranger

as Waitress (uncredited)

1937

Wanted!

as Belinda

1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)

1945

Great Day

as Pub Customer

1940

Salvage with a Smile

as Housekeeper

1940

A Call for Arms!

as Mrs. James

1987

Lethal Weapon

as Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)

1950

The Day Begins Early

as Ethel Huggett

1935

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