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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...
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The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964
Theatre 625Series • 1964
MaigretSeries • 1960
The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesSeries • 1971
Gideon's WaySeries • 1965
EspionageSeries • 1963
The Private Life of Sherlock HolmesMovie • 1970
The ServantMovie • 1963
The Lady VanishesMovie • 1938
I Know Where I'm Going!Movie • 1945
The Shadow of the CatMovie • 1961
The Mummy's ShroudMovie • 1967
Whisky Galore!Movie • 1949
Pink String and Sealing WaxMovie • 1945
Cottage to LetMovie • 1941
The October ManMovie • 1947
The SorcerersMovie • 1967