Kathleen Harrison
Acting • Born 1892-02-22 – Died 1995-12-07
Biography
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
86 credits
Jury's Evidence
Movie • 1936
Secretary
Scrooge
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Dilber
Cast a Dark Shadow
Movie • 1955
Emmie
The Ghoul
Movie • 1933
Kaney
The Ghost Train
Movie • 1941
Miss Bourne
Double Confession
Movie • 1950
Kate
The Fast Lady
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Staggers
Bank Holiday
Movie • 1938
May
Convict 99
Movie • 1938
Mabel
Wanted for Murder
Movie • 1946
Florrie
The Shop at Sly Corner
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Catt
Night Must Fall
Movie • 1937
Emily Terence
The Winslow Boy
Movie • 1948
Violet
Waterfront
Movie • 1950
Mrs. McCabe
Turn the Key Softly
Movie • 1953
Granny Quilliam
Once a Crook
Movie • 1941
Auntie
Trio
Movie • 1950
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Now Barabbas
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Brown
The Big Money
Movie • 1958
Mrs Frith
On the Fiddle
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Cooksley
Seven Thunders
Movie • 1957
Mme. Abou
Lock Up Your Daughters
Movie • 1969
Lady Clumsey
They Came by Night
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Lightbody
Landfall
Movie • 1949
Mona's Mother
Alive and Kicking
Movie • 1959
Rosie
Meet Sexton Blake
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Bardell
Bond Street
Movie • 1948
Ethel Brawn
It Happened One Sunday
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Purkiss
Here Come the Huggetts
Movie • 1948
Ethel Huggett
Vote for Huggett
Movie • 1949
Ethel Huggett
The Huggetts Abroad
Movie • 1949
Ethel Huggett
Holiday Camp
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
Lilacs in the Spring
Movie • 1954
Kate
Much Too Shy
Movie • 1942
Amelia Peabody
Where There's a Will
Movie • 1955
Annie Yeo
The Happy Family
Movie • 1952
Lillian Lord
It's a Wonderful World
Movie • 1956
Miss Gilly
Letter from Home
Movie • 1941
Ethel
Temptation Harbour
Movie • 1947
Mabel Slater
The Man from Toronto
Movie • 1933
Martha
A Cry from the Streets
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Farrer
The Flying Squad
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Schifan
A Girl Must Live
Movie • 1939
Penelope
The Great Defender
Movie • 1934
Agnes Carter
The London Connection
Movie • 1979
Elderly Lady
Home and Away
Movie • 1956
Elsie Knowles
Girl in the News
Movie • 1940
Cook
Gaslight
Movie • 1940
Bit Role
The Tenth Man
Movie • 1936
Confused Voter
The Outsider
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Coates
Aren't We All?
Movie • 1932
Bit Role
Golden Arrow
Movie • 1949
Isobel
The Dog and the Diamonds
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Fossett
Aren't Men Beasts!
Movie • 1937
Annie
I Thank You
Movie • 1941
Kathleen
What Happened Then?
Movie • 1934
Major Barbara
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Price
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
Mother in Family Group
Oliver Twist
Movie • 1948
Mrs Sowerberry
Hobson's Choice
Movie • 1931
Ada Figgins
Broken Blossoms
Movie • 1936
Mrs. Lossy
Discoveries
Movie • 1939
Kitchen Maid
West 11
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Beckett
All for Mary
Movie • 1955
Nannie Cartwright
The Terror
Movie • 1938
Parlour Maid
The New Lot
Movie • 1943
Keith's Mother
Dandy Dick
Movie • 1935
Jane (the Maid)
In Which We Serve
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Blake
The Pickwick Papers
Movie • 1952
Rachel Wardle
I See a Dark Stranger
Movie • 1946
Waitress (uncredited)
Wanted!
Movie • 1937
Belinda
Caesar and Cleopatra
Movie • 1945
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
Great Day
Movie • 1945
Pub Customer
Salvage with a Smile
Movie • 1940
Housekeeper
A Call for Arms!
Movie • 1940
Mrs. James
Waterloo Road
Movie • 1945
The Day Begins Early
Movie • 1950
Ethel Huggett
Inside the Room
Movie • 1935
Nurse
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Movie • 1962
Mrs Gibbons
Blondes: Diana Dors
Movie • 1999
Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
Mrs Thursday
TV • 1966
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV • 1964
NBC Experiment in Television
TV • 1967
(voice)
Danger UXB
TV • 1979
Mrs. Dollery
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Mrs. Ashworth
Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1976
Henrietta Boffin