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Kathleen Harrison
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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. I…
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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.
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Kathleen Harrison's Filmography
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Blondes: Diana Dors
as Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
The London Connection
as Elderly Lady
Lock Up Your Daughters
as Lady Clumsey
West 11
as Mrs. Beckett
The Fast Lady
as Mrs. Staggers
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
as Mrs Gibbons
On the Fiddle
as Mrs. Cooksley
Alive and Kicking
as Rosie
A Cry from the Streets
as Mrs. Farrer
The Big Money
as Mrs Frith
Seven Thunders
as Mme. Abou
Home and Away
as Elsie Knowles
It's a Wonderful World
as Miss Gilly
All for Mary
as Nannie Cartwright
Cast a Dark Shadow
as Emmie
Where There's a Will
as Annie Yeo
Lilacs in the Spring
as Kate
The Dog and the Diamonds
as Mrs. Fossett
Turn the Key Softly
as Granny Quilliam
The Pickwick Papers
as Rachel Wardle
The Happy Family
as Lillian Lord
The Magic Box
as Mother in Family Group
Scrooge
as Mrs. Dilber
No Poster
The Day Begins Early
as Ethel Huggett
Trio
as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Waterfront
as Mrs. McCabe
Double Confession
as Kate
Golden Arrow
as Isobel
Landfall
as Mona's Mother
Now Barabbas
as Mrs. Brown
The Huggetts Abroad
as Ethel Huggett
Vote for Huggett
as Ethel Huggett
Here Come the Huggetts
as Ethel Huggett
The Winslow Boy
as Violet
Oliver Twist
as Mrs Sowerberry
Bond Street
as Ethel Brawn
Holiday Camp
as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
The Shop at Sly Corner
as Mrs. Catt
Temptation Harbour
as Mabel Slater
I See a Dark Stranger
as Waitress (uncredited)
Wanted for Murder
as Florrie
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
Great Day
as Pub Customer
Meet Sexton Blake
as Mrs. Bardell
Waterloo Road
No Poster
It Happened One Sunday
as Mrs. Purkiss
The New Lot
as Keith's Mother
Much Too Shy
as Amelia Peabody
In Which We Serve
as Mrs. Blake
Letter from Home
as Ethel
I Thank You
as Kathleen
No Poster
Once a Crook
as Auntie
Major Barbara
as Mrs. Price
The Ghost Train
as Miss Bourne
No Poster
A Call for Arms!
as Mrs. James
The Flying Squad
as Mrs. Schifan
Gaslight
as Bit Role
Girl in the News
as Cook
They Came by Night
as Mrs. Lightbody
Salvage with a Smile
as Housekeeper
A Girl Must Live
as Penelope
No Poster
Discoveries
as Kitchen Maid
The Outsider
as Mrs. Coates
Convict 99
as Mabel
No Poster
The Terror
as Parlour Maid
Bank Holiday
as May
Wanted!
as Belinda
Night Must Fall
as Emily Terence
Aren't Men Beasts!
as Annie
The Tenth Man
as Confused Voter
Broken Blossoms
as Mrs. Lossy
Jury's Evidence
as Secretary
Inside the Room
as Nurse
Dandy Dick
as Jane (the Maid)
The Great Defender
as Agnes Carter
What Happened Then?
The Ghoul
as Kaney
The Man from Toronto
as Martha
Aren't We All?
as Bit Role
Hobson's Choice
as Ada Figgins