Renée Houston
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.
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Fotos
Filme (44)
Legend of the Werewolf
1975 · Chou-Chou
Carry On at Your Convenience
1971 · Agatha Spanner
The Comic
1969 · Olive
River Rivals
1967 · Mrs. Fredericks
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966 · Lady Blanchflower
Cul-de-sac
1966 · Christopher's Mother
The Idol
1966 · 1st Woman at Party
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1966
Repulsion
1965 · Mme Balch
Carry On Spying
1964 · Funhouse Madame
The Rescue Squad
1963 · Mrs Manse, Mrs. Manse
Tomorrow at Ten
1963 · Masie Maddox
Carry On Cabby
1963 · Molly
Nurse on Wheels
1963 · Mrs. Beacon
Out of the Fog
1962 · Ma
The Phantom of the Opera
1962 · Mrs. Tucker
Twice Round the Daffodils
1962 · Matron
No, My Darling Daughter
1961 · Miss Yardley
Watch It, Sailor!
1961 · Mrs. Mottram
Three on a Spree
1961 · Mrs. Gray
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960 · Helen Burke
And the Same to You
1960 · Mildred Pomphret
The Horse's Mouth
1958 · Sara Monday
The Big Money
1958 · Bobbie
The Key
1958 · Canteen Worker (uncredited)
The Nice Americans
1958 · Mrs. Adams
Time Without Pity
1957 · Mrs. Harker
A Town Like Alice
1956 · Ebbey
Track the Man Down
1955 · Pat Sherwood
The Belles of St Trinian's
1954 · Miss Brimmer
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951 · Beattie
Two Thousand Women
1944 · Maud Wright
The Peterville Diamond
1943 · Lady Margaret
Down Melody Lane
1943 · Self
Old Bill and Son
1941 · Stella Malloy
A Girl Must Live
1939 · Gloria Lind
Fine Feathers
1937 · Teenie McPherson
Happy Days Are Here Again
1936 · Kitty Seymour, Story
No Monkey Business
1935
Mister Cinders
1935 · Mrs. Phipps
Lost In The Legion
1934 · Mary McFee
Radio Parade
1933
Their Night Out
1933 · Maggie Oliphant
Come Into My Parlour
1932 · Jenny MacDonald
Serien (12)
Doctor in the House
1969
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · "Frank" Hickson
ITV Playhouse
1967
Trapped
1967 · Ivy
Theatre 625
1964 · Madame Remy
The Saint
1962 · Ida Warshed, Mrs. McAlister
Man of the World
1962 · Mrs Van Kempson
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962
Maigret
1960 · Ja-Ja
No Hiding Place
1959
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Ethel Watts
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955 · Mother