Kathleen Harrison
Birthday
1892/02/22
Day of death
1995/12/07 (103 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Also know as
Кэтлин Харрисон
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 Choi...Read more
Acting
(1936) Jury's Evidence
as Secretary
(1951) Scrooge
as Mrs. Dilber
(1955) Cast a Dark Shadow
as Emmie
(1933) The Ghoul
as Kaney
(1941) The Ghost Train
as Miss Bourne
(1950) Double Confession
as Kate
(1962) The Fast Lady
as Mrs. Staggers
(1938) Bank Holiday
as May
(1938) Convict 99
as Mabel
(1946) Wanted for Murder
as Florrie
(1947) The Shop at Sly Corner
as Mrs. Catt
(1937) Night Must Fall
as Emily Terence
(1948) The Winslow Boy
as Violet
(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) Alive and Kicking
as Rosie
(1945) Meet Sexton Blake
as Mrs. Bardell
(1948) Bond Street
as Ethel Brawn
(1944) It Happened One Sunday
as Mrs. Purkiss
(1949) The Huggetts Abroad
as Ethel Huggett
(1948) Here Come the Huggetts
as Ethel Huggett
(1949) Vote for Huggett
as Ethel Huggett
(1947) Holiday Camp
as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
(1954) Lilacs in the Spring
as Kate
(1942) Much Too Shy
as Amelia Peabody
(1955) Where There's a Will
as Annie Yeo
(1952) The Happy Family
as Lillian Lord
(1956) It's a Wonderful World
as Miss Gilly
(1941) Letter from Home
as Ethel
(1947) Temptation Harbour
as Mabel Slater
(1933) The Man from Toronto
as Martha
(1958) A Cry from the Streets
as Mrs. Farrer
(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) Girl in the News
as Cook
(1940) Gaslight
as Bit Role
(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) The Dog and the Diamonds
as Mrs. Fossett
(1937) Aren't Men Beasts!
as Annie
(1941) I Thank You
as Kathleen
(1934) What Happened Then?
as ---
(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)
(1945) Waterloo Road
as ---
(1950) The Day Begins Early
as Ethel Huggett
(1935) Inside the Room
as Nurse
(1966) Mrs Thursday
as ---
(1964) Martin Chuzzlewit
as ---
(1976) Our Mutual Friend
as Mrs. Henrietta Boffin
(1967) NBC Experiment in Television
as (voice)
(1979) Danger UXB
as Mrs. Dollery