Catherine Lacey
Acting • Born 1904-05-06 – Died 1979-09-23
Biography
From Wikipedia Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen. She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, but was credited as Catherine Lacy. She was subsequently cast in major films like I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), The October Man (1947), Whisky Galore! (1949), The Servant (1963) and The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966), in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. In 1966/67 she played in two notable horror films, as a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and as Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers. For the latter she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968. Eight years earlier she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year. Her television debut, in 1938, was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi; her last appearance, in 1973, was in the Play for Today instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.
Filmography
38 credits
The Shadow of the Cat
Movie • 1961
Ella Venable
The Servant
Movie • 1963
Lady Agatha Mounset
Whisky Galore!
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Waggett
Wine of India
Movie • 1970
Bee
The Mummy's Shroud
Movie • 1967
Haiti
The Sorcerers
Movie • 1967
Estelle Monserrat
I Know Where I'm Going!
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Robinson
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Movie • 1945
Miss Porter
Rockets Galore
Movie • 1958
Mrs Waggett
Innocent Sinners
Movie • 1958
Angela Chesney
When The Bough Breaks
Movie • 1947
Almoner
The White Unicorn
Movie • 1947
Miss Cater
Carnival
Movie • 1946
Florry Raeburn
Marco Millions
Movie • 1939
Another Sky
Movie • 1954
Selena Prouse
Crack in the Mirror
Movie • 1960
Mother Superior
Poison Pen
Movie • 1939
Connie Fateley
The Master Builder
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Solness
Castle of Crimes
Movie • 1940
Francine Rollard
The October Man
Movie • 1947
Miss Selby
The Solitary Child
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Evans
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 1968
Countess of Rousillon
The Man in the Sky
Movie • 1957
Mary's mother
The Lady Vanishes
Movie • 1938
The Nun
Cottage to Let
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Stokes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1970
Woman in Wheelchair
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
Movie • 1945
Gentlewoman
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
Sarah Fischer
Journey to the Unknown
TV • 1968
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Mrs Steinberg
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
TV • 1970
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
Maigret
TV • 1960
The Human Jungle
TV • 1963
Mrs. Box
Festival
TV • 1963
The Rat-Wife
The Intruder
TV • 1972
Miss Hendry
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Mrs. Mourtzinos