Catherine Lacey

Acting

Born May 6, 1904, London, England, UK

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

• 1973Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont — Mrs. Arbuthnot
• The Intruder — Miss Hendry
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Mrs Steinberg
• 1970The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Woman in Wheelchair
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII — Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
• 1970Wine of India — Bee
• 1968All's Well That Ends Well — Countess of Rousillon
• Journey to the Unknown — Miss Sarah Prinn
• 1967The Mummy's Shroud — Haiti
• 1967The Sorcerers — Estelle Monserrat
• Gideon's Way — Sarah Fischer
• The Wednesday Thriller — Miss Chafecote
• The Wednesday Play — Frau Mittermayer, Bee
• Theatre 625
• Espionage — Mother
• Festival — The Rat-Wife
• The Human Jungle — Mrs. Box
• 1963The Servant — Lady Agatha Mounset
• Drama 61-67 — Mrs. Mourtzinos
• 1961The Shadow of the Cat — Ella Venable
• 1960Crack in the Mirror — Mother Superior
• Maigret
• 1958Innocent Sinners — Angela Chesney
• 1958Rockets Galore — Mrs Waggett
• 1958The Master Builder — Aline Solness
• 1958The Solitary Child — Mrs. Evans
• 1957The Man in the Sky — Mary's mother
• 1954Another Sky — Selena Prouse
• 1949Whisky Galore! — Mrs. Waggett
• 1947The October Man — Miss Selby
• 1947The White Unicorn — Miss Cater
• 1947When The Bough Breaks — Almoner
• 1946Carnival — Florry Raeburn
• 1945Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I — Gentlewoman
• 1945I Know Where I'm Going! — Mrs. Robinson
• 1945Pink String and Sealing Wax — Miss Porter
• 1941Cottage to Let — Mrs. Stokes
• 1940Castle of Crimes — Francine Rollard
• 1939Marco Millions
• 1939Poison Pen — Connie Fateley
• 1938The Lady Vanishes — The Nun