Kathleen Harrison
Acting
Born February 22, 1892, 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.
Filmography
- 1999Blondes: Diana Dors — Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
- Danger UXB — Mrs. Dollery
- 1979The London Connection — Elderly Lady
- Our Mutual Friend — Henrietta Boffin
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Rose
- 1969Lock Up Your Daughters — Lady Clumsey
- NBC Experiment in Television — (voice)
- Mrs Thursday
- BBC Play of the Month — Mrs. Ashworth
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- 1963West 11 — Mrs. Beckett
- 1962Mrs. Gibbons' Boys — Mrs Gibbons
- 1962The Fast Lady — Mrs. Staggers
- 1961On the Fiddle — Mrs. Cooksley
- 1959Alive and Kicking — Rosie
- 1958A Cry from the Streets — Mrs. Farrer
- 1958The Big Money — Mrs Frith
- 1957Seven Thunders — Mme. Abou
- 1956Home and Away — Elsie Knowles
- 1956It's a Wonderful World — Miss Gilly
- 1955All for Mary — Nannie Cartwright
- 1955Cast a Dark Shadow — Emmie
- 1955Where There's a Will — Annie Yeo
- 1954Lilacs in the Spring — Kate
- 1953The Dog and the Diamonds — Mrs. Fossett
- 1953Turn the Key Softly — Granny Quilliam
- 1952The Happy Family — Lillian Lord
- 1952The Magic Box — Mother in Family Group
- 1952The Pickwick Papers — Rachel Wardle
- 1951Scrooge — Mrs. Dilber
- 1950Double Confession — Kate
- 1950The Day Begins Early — Ethel Huggett
- 1950Trio — Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
- 1950Waterfront — Mrs. McCabe
- 1949Golden Arrow — Isobel
- 1949Landfall — Mona's Mother
- 1949Now Barabbas — Mrs. Brown
- 1949The Huggetts Abroad — Ethel Huggett
- 1949Vote for Huggett — Ethel Huggett
- 1948Bond Street — Ethel Brawn
- 1948Here Come the Huggetts — Ethel Huggett
- 1948Oliver Twist — Mrs Sowerberry
- 1948The Winslow Boy — Violet
- 1947Holiday Camp — Mrs. Ethel Huggett
- 1947Temptation Harbour — Mabel Slater
- 1947The Shop at Sly Corner — Mrs. Catt
- 1946I See a Dark Stranger — Waitress (uncredited)
- 1946Wanted for Murder — Florrie
- 1945Caesar and Cleopatra — Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
- 1945Great Day — Pub Customer
- 1945Meet Sexton Blake — Mrs. Bardell
- 1945Waterloo Road
- 1944It Happened One Sunday — Mrs. Purkiss
- 1943The New Lot — Keith's Mother
- 1942In Which We Serve — Mrs. Blake
- 1942Much Too Shy — Amelia Peabody
- 1941I Thank You — Kathleen
- 1941Letter from Home — Ethel
- 1941Major Barbara — Mrs. Price
- 1941Once a Crook — Auntie
- 1941The Ghost Train — Miss Bourne
- 1940A Call for Arms! — Mrs. James
- 1940Gaslight — Bit Role
- 1940Girl in the News — Cook
- 1940Salvage with a Smile — Housekeeper
- 1940The Flying Squad — Mrs. Schifan
- 1940They Came by Night — Mrs. Lightbody
- 1939A Girl Must Live — Penelope
- 1939Discoveries — Kitchen Maid
- 1939The Outsider — Mrs. Coates
- 1938Bank Holiday — May
- 1938Convict 99 — Mabel
- 1938The Terror — Parlour Maid
- 1937Aren't Men Beasts! — Annie
- 1937Night Must Fall — Emily Terence
- 1937Wanted! — Belinda
- 1936Broken Blossoms — Mrs. Lossy
- 1936Jury's Evidence — Secretary
- 1936The Tenth Man — Confused Voter
- 1935Dandy Dick — Jane (the Maid)
- 1935Inside the Room — Nurse
- 1934The Great Defender — Agnes Carter
- 1934What Happened Then?
- 1933The Ghoul — Kaney
- 1933The Man from Toronto — Martha
- 1932Aren't We All? — Bit Role
- 1931Hobson's Choice — Ada Figgins