Catherine Lacey
Known for: Acting
From Wikipedia Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen. She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, but was credited as Catherine Lacy. She was subsequently cast in major films like I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), The October Man (1947), Whisky Galore! (1949), The Servant (1963) and The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966), in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. In 1966/67 she played in two notable horror films, as a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and as Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers. For the latter she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968. Eight years earlier she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year. Her television debut, in 1938, was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi; her last appearance, in 1973, was in the Play for Today instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.
Filmography
Series
The Wednesday Play
Frau Mittermayer
1964
Series
The Wednesday Play
Bee
1964
Series
Gideon's Way
Sarah Fischer
1965
Series
Theatre 625
1964
Series
Maigret
1960
Series
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Mrs Steinberg
1971
Drama 61-67
Mrs. Mourtzinos
1961
Festival
The Rat-Wife
1963
Series
Espionage
Mother
1963
Series
The Human Jungle
Mrs. Box
1963
Series
Journey to the Unknown
Miss Sarah Prinn
1968
Film
The Lady Vanishes
The Nun
1938
Film
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Woman in Wheelchair
1970
Series
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
1970
Film
The Servant
Lady Agatha Mounset
1963
The Wednesday Thriller
Miss Chafecote
1965
Series
The Intruder
Miss Hendry
1972
Film
Whisky Galore!
Mrs. Waggett
1949
Film
I Know Where I'm Going!
Mrs. Robinson
1945
Film
Poison Pen
Connie Fateley
1939
Film
Innocent Sinners
Angela Chesney
1958
Film
The Mummy's Shroud
Haiti
1967
Marco Millions
1939
Film
Another Sky
Selena Prouse
1954
Film
The Sorcerers
Estelle Monserrat
1967
Film
The Man in the Sky
Mary's mother
1957
Film
The Shadow of the Cat
Ella Venable
1961
Film
Rockets Galore
Mrs Waggett
1958
Film
The October Man
Miss Selby
1947
Film
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Miss Porter
1945
Film
Crack in the Mirror
Mother Superior
1960
Film
Cottage to Let
Mrs. Stokes
1941
Wine of India
Bee
1970
Film
The White Unicorn
Miss Cater
1947
When The Bough Breaks
Almoner
1947
Film
Carnival
Florry Raeburn
1946
All's Well That Ends Well
Countess of Rousillon
1968
Film
Castle of Crimes
Francine Rollard
1940
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
Gentlewoman
1945
Film
The Solitary Child
Mrs. Evans
1958
Film
The Master Builder
Aline Solness
1958
Film
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Arbuthnot
1973