Renée Houston
Acting • Born 1902-07-24 – Died 1980-02-09
Biography
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
53 credits
Cul-de-sac
Movie • 1966
Christopher's Mother
Repulsion
Movie • 1965
Mme Balch
Carry On Spying
Movie • 1964
Funhouse Madame
Two Thousand Women
Movie • 1944
Maud Wright
Legend of the Werewolf
Movie • 1975
Chou-Chou
Time Without Pity
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Harker
The Horse's Mouth
Movie • 1958
Sara Monday
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Tucker
Carry On Cabby
Movie • 1963
Molly
Carry On at Your Convenience
Movie • 1971
Agatha Spanner
The Flesh and the Fiends
Movie • 1960
Helen Burke
A Town Like Alice
Movie • 1956
Ebbey
The Nice Americans
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Adams
Watch It, Sailor!
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Mottram
The Peterville Diamond
Movie • 1943
Lady Margaret
Track the Man Down
Movie • 1955
Pat Sherwood
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Movie • 1966
Lady Blanchflower
Out of the Fog
Movie • 1962
Ma
No, My Darling Daughter
Movie • 1961
Miss Yardley
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Movie • 1966
Mister Cinders
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Phipps
The Key
Movie • 1958
Canteen Worker (uncredited)
A Girl Must Live
Movie • 1939
Gloria Lind
And the Same to You
Movie • 1960
Mildred Pomphret
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Movie • 1951
Beattie
Radio Parade
Movie • 1933
Their Night Out
Movie • 1933
Maggie Oliphant
Old Bill and Son
Movie • 1941
Stella Malloy
Three on a Spree
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Gray
The Comic
Movie • 1969
Olive
The Rescue Squad
Movie • 1963
Mrs Manse
River Rivals
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Fredericks
Lost In The Legion
Movie • 1934
Mary McFee
Down Melody Lane
Movie • 1943
Self
The Idol
Movie • 1966
1st Woman at Party
Come Into My Parlour
Movie • 1932
Jenny MacDonald
Happy Days Are Here Again
Movie • 1936
Kitty Seymour
The Belles of St. Trinian's
Movie • 1954
Miss Brimmer
Twice Round the Daffodils
Movie • 1962
Matron
Nurse on Wheels
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Beacon
Tomorrow at Ten
Movie • 1963
Masie Maddox
The Big Money
Movie • 1958
Bobbie
Fine Feathers
Movie • 1937
Teenie McPherson
No Monkey Business
Movie • 1935
The Rescue Squad
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Manse
The Saint
TV • 1962
Ida Warshed
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
TV • 1962
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Saint
TV • 1962
Mrs. McAlister
Maigret
TV • 1960
Ja-Ja
Doctor in the House
TV • 1969
Man of the World
TV • 1962
Mrs Van Kempson
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Madame Remy