Renée Houston
Known for: Acting
Renée Houston (24 July 1902 - 9 February 1980) was a Scottish comedy actress and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles. Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gribbin she toured music halls and revues with her sister Billie Houston as the "Houston Sisters". In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film, the script of which Renée had written. It was produced by Lee De Forest, whose process, Phonofilm, enabled a soundtrack to be played alongside the film (a year before The Jazz Singer). Houston married three times, the second was to the actor Pat Aherne, the brother of Brian Aherne. Her third husband was the actor Donald Stewart. In her later years, she specialised in "battleaxe" roles, notably as shop steward Vic Spanner's (Kenneth Cope) formidable mother in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled Don't Fence Me In. Houston was also in the early episodes of radio's The Clitheroe Kid and a regular guest on radio panel show The Petticoat Line chaired by Anona Winn. She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
Series
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Mother
1955
Series
The Saint
Ida Warshed
1962
Series
The Saint
Mrs. McAlister
1962
Series
ITV Playhouse
1967
Series
Theatre 625
Madame Remy
1964
Series
Maigret
Ja-Ja
1960
Series
No Hiding Place
1959
Series
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962
Series
Man of the World
Mrs Van Kempson
1962
W. Somerset Maugham
"Frank" Hickson
1969
Film
Repulsion
Mme Balch
1965
Series
Doctor in the House
1969
Film
Cul-de-sac
Christopher's Mother
1966
Film
Time Without Pity
Mrs. Harker
1957
Series
Armchair Theatre
Ethel Watts
1956
Film
The Key
Canteen Worker (uncredited)
1958
Film
The Horse's Mouth
Sara Monday
1958
Film
The Phantom of the Opera
Mrs. Tucker
1962
Film
Carry On at Your Convenience
Agatha Spanner
1971
Film
The Belles of St Trinian's
Miss Brimmer
1954
Film
Carry On Spying
Funhouse Madame
1964
Film
Radio Parade
1933
Film
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Beattie
1951
Film
A Town Like Alice
Ebbey
1956
Film
A Girl Must Live
Gloria Lind
1939
Film
The Flesh and the Fiends
Helen Burke
1960
Film
The Idol
1st Woman at Party
1966
Film
Carry On Cabby
Molly
1963
Film
Nurse on Wheels
Mrs. Beacon
1963
Film
Twice Round the Daffodils
Matron
1962
Film
The Big Money
Bobbie
1958
Film
Watch It, Sailor!
Mrs. Mottram
1961
The Comic
Olive
1969
Film
Three on a Spree
Mrs. Gray
1961
Film
Two Thousand Women
Maud Wright
1944
Film
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Lady Blanchflower
1966
Come Into My Parlour
Jenny MacDonald
1932
Film
Tomorrow at Ten
Masie Maddox
1963
Film
The Rescue Squad
Mrs Manse
1963
Film
The Rescue Squad
Mrs. Manse
1963
Film
Mister Cinders
Mrs. Phipps
1935
Film
Old Bill and Son
Stella Malloy
1941
Film
No, My Darling Daughter
Miss Yardley
1961
Film
No Monkey Business
1935
Film
And the Same to You
Mildred Pomphret
1960
Film
Legend of the Werewolf
Chou-Chou
1975
Film
Out of the Fog
Ma
1962
Film
Track the Man Down
Pat Sherwood
1955
Film
The Peterville Diamond
Lady Margaret
1943
Their Night Out
Maggie Oliphant
1933
Film
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1966
Fine Feathers
Teenie McPherson
1937
The Nice Americans
Mrs. Adams
1958
Down Melody Lane
Self
1943
Lost In The Legion
Mary McFee
1934
Happy Days Are Here Again
Kitty Seymour
1936
River Rivals
Mrs. Fredericks
1967