Kathleen Harrison
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Ashworth
1965
Series
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Rose
1969
Film
Oliver Twist
Mrs Sowerberry
1948
Series
Danger UXB
Mrs. Dollery
1979
Film
Scrooge
Mrs. Dilber
1951
Series
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
1967
Film
Caesar and Cleopatra
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
1945
Series
Our Mutual Friend
Henrietta Boffin
1976
Series
Mrs Thursday
1966
Film
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Blake
1942
Film
Gaslight
Bit Role
1940
Series
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
Film
The Winslow Boy
Violet
1948
Film
A Cry from the Streets
Mrs. Farrer
1958
Film
The Ghoul
Kaney
1933
Film
The Fast Lady
Mrs. Staggers
1962
Film
Cast a Dark Shadow
Emmie
1955
Film
Night Must Fall
Emily Terence
1937
Film
Temptation Harbour
Mabel Slater
1947
Film
Girl in the News
Cook
1940
Film
Where There's a Will
Annie Yeo
1955
Film
Letter from Home
Ethel
1941
Film
The Magic Box
Mother in Family Group
1952
Film
Seven Thunders
Mme. Abou
1957
Film
Bank Holiday
May
1938
Film
On the Fiddle
Mrs. Cooksley
1961
Film
A Girl Must Live
Penelope
1939
Film
Alive and Kicking
Rosie
1959
Film
Now Barabbas
Mrs. Brown
1949
Film
Vote for Huggett
Ethel Huggett
1949
Film
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lady Clumsey
1969
Film
The Happy Family
Lillian Lord
1952
Film
The Pickwick Papers
Rachel Wardle
1952
Film
West 11
Mrs. Beckett
1963
Film
Holiday Camp
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
1947
Film
Bond Street
Ethel Brawn
1948
Film
All for Mary
Nannie Cartwright
1955
Film
I Thank You
Kathleen
1941
Film
Major Barbara
Mrs. Price
1941
Film
Aren't We All?
Bit Role
1932
Film
Waterfront
Mrs. McCabe
1950
Film
The Ghost Train
Miss Bourne
1941
Film
Blondes: Diana Dors
Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
1999
Film
Here Come the Huggetts
Ethel Huggett
1948
Film
I See a Dark Stranger
Waitress (uncredited)
1946
Film
Waterloo Road
1945
Film
Lilacs in the Spring
Kate
1954
The Terror
Parlour Maid
1938
Film
Wanted for Murder
Florrie
1946
Film
Home and Away
Elsie Knowles
1956
Film
The Shop at Sly Corner
Mrs. Catt
1947
Film
The Outsider
Mrs. Coates
1939
Film
Turn the Key Softly
Granny Quilliam
1953
Film
The London Connection
Elderly Lady
1979
Film
The Man from Toronto
Martha
1933
Film
Much Too Shy
Amelia Peabody
1942
Film
The Great Defender
Agnes Carter
1934
Discoveries
Kitchen Maid
1939
Film
The Tenth Man
Confused Voter
1936
Film
They Came by Night
Mrs. Lightbody
1940
Film
Double Confession
Kate
1950
Film
It's a Wonderful World
Miss Gilly
1956
Film
Inside the Room
Nurse
1935
Film
Salvage with a Smile
Housekeeper
1940
Film
Trio
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
1950
Film
The New Lot
Keith's Mother
1943
Film
The Big Money
Mrs Frith
1958
Film
The Dog and the Diamonds
Mrs. Fossett
1953
Film
Great Day
Pub Customer
1945
Film
Convict 99
Mabel
1938
Once a Crook
Auntie
1941
Film
Broken Blossoms
Mrs. Lossy
1936
Film
The Flying Squad
Mrs. Schifan
1940
Film
Aren't Men Beasts!
Annie
1937
Film
Meet Sexton Blake
Mrs. Bardell
1945
Film
Wanted!
Belinda
1937
Film
Dandy Dick
Jane (the Maid)
1935
Film
Landfall
Mona's Mother
1949
Film
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Mrs Gibbons
1962
It Happened One Sunday
Mrs. Purkiss
1944
Film
The Huggetts Abroad
Ethel Huggett
1949
Film
Jury's Evidence
Secretary
1936
The Day Begins Early
Ethel Huggett
1950
Film
Golden Arrow
Isobel
1949
Film
Hobson's Choice
Ada Figgins
1931
A Call for Arms!
Mrs. James
1940
Film
What Happened Then?
1934