Kathleen Harrison
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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Movies (80)
Blondes: Diana Dors
1999 · Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
The London Connection
1979 · Elderly Lady
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969 · Lady Clumsey
West 11
1963 · Mrs. Beckett
The Fast Lady
1962 · Mrs. Staggers
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
1962 · Mrs Gibbons
On the Fiddle
1961 · Mrs. Cooksley
Alive and Kicking
1959 · Rosie
A Cry from the Streets
1958 · Mrs. Farrer
The Big Money
1958 · Mrs Frith
Seven Thunders
1957 · Mme. Abou
Home and Away
1956 · Elsie Knowles
It's a Wonderful World
1956 · Miss Gilly
All for Mary
1955 · Nannie Cartwright
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955 · Emmie
Where There's a Will
1955 · Annie Yeo
Lilacs in the Spring
1954 · Kate
The Dog and the Diamonds
1953 · Mrs. Fossett
Turn the Key Softly
1953 · Granny Quilliam
The Pickwick Papers
1952 · Rachel Wardle
The Happy Family
1952 · Lillian Lord
The Magic Box
1952 · Mother in Family Group
Scrooge
1951 · Mrs. Dilber
The Day Begins Early
1950 · Ethel Huggett
Trio
1950 · Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Waterfront
1950 · Mrs. McCabe
Double Confession
1950 · Kate
Golden Arrow
1949 · Isobel
Landfall
1949 · Mona's Mother
Now Barabbas
1949 · Mrs. Brown
The Huggetts Abroad
1949 · Ethel Huggett
Vote for Huggett
1949 · Ethel Huggett
Here Come the Huggetts
1948 · Ethel Huggett
The Winslow Boy
1948 · Violet
Oliver Twist
1948 · Mrs Sowerberry
Bond Street
1948 · Ethel Brawn
Holiday Camp
1947 · Mrs. Ethel Huggett
The Shop at Sly Corner
1947 · Mrs. Catt
Temptation Harbour
1947 · Mabel Slater
Caesar and Cleopatra
1946 · Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · Waitress (uncredited)
Wanted for Murder
1946 · Florrie
Great Day
1945 · Pub Customer
Meet Sexton Blake
1945 · Mrs. Bardell
Waterloo Road
1945
It Happened One Sunday
1944 · Mrs. Purkiss
The New Lot
1943 · Keith's Mother
Much Too Shy
1942 · Amelia Peabody
In Which We Serve
1942 · Mrs. Blake
Letter from Home
1941 · Ethel
I Thank You
1941 · Kathleen
Once a Crook
1941 · Auntie
Major Barbara
1941 · Mrs. Price
The Ghost Train
1941 · Miss Bourne
A Call for Arms!
1940 · Mrs. James
The Flying Squad
1940 · Mrs. Schifan
Gaslight
1940 · Bit Role
Girl in the News
1940 · Cook
They Came by Night
1940 · Mrs. Lightbody
Salvage with a Smile
1940 · Housekeeper
A Girl Must Live
1939 · Penelope
Discoveries
1939 · Kitchen Maid
The Outsider
1939 · Mrs. Coates
Convict 99
1938 · Mabel
The Terror
1938 · Parlour Maid
Bank Holiday
1938 · May
Wanted!
1937 · Belinda
Night Must Fall
1937 · Emily Terence
Aren't Men Beasts!
1937 · Annie
The Tenth Man
1936 · Confused Voter
Broken Blossoms
1936 · Mrs. Lossy
Jury's Evidence
1936 · Secretary
Inside the Room
1935 · Nurse
Dandy Dick
1935 · Jane (the Maid)
The Great Defender
1934 · Agnes Carter
What Happened Then?
1934
The Ghoul
1933 · Kaney
The Man from Toronto
1933 · Martha
Aren't We All?
1932 · Bit Role
Hobson's Choice
1931 · Ada Figgins
