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Kathleen Harrison

Kathleen Harrison

Birthday: 1892-02-23 | Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1961
On the Fiddle

as    Mrs. Cooksley

1958
The Big Money

as    Mrs Frith

1957
Cast a Dark Shadow

as    Emmie

1957
Seven Thunders

as    Mme. Abou

1956
Home and Away

as    Elsie Knowles

1956
It's a Wonderful World

as    Miss Gilly

1954
Turn the Key Softly

as    Granny Quilliam

1951
Scrooge

as    Mrs. Dilber

1950
Double Confession

as    Kate

1949
The Huggetts Abroad

as    Ethel Huggett

1949
Landfall

as    Mona's Mother

1948
Here Come the Huggetts

as    Ethel Huggett

1948
Holiday Camp

as    Mrs. Ethel Huggett

1946
Wanted for Murder

as    Florrie

1944
It Happened One Sunday

as    Mrs. Purkiss

1941
The Ghost Train

as    Miss Bourne

1940
They Came by Night

as    Mrs. Lightbody

1940
The Flying Squad

as    Mrs. Schifan

1937
Night Must Fall

as    Emily Terence

1933
The Man from Toronto

as    Martha