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