About
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.
Known for
BBC Play of the MonthSeries • 1965
ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries • 1969
Oliver TwistMovie • 1948
ScroogeMovie • 1951
Caesar and CleopatraMovie • 1945
In Which We ServeMovie • 1942
Cast a Dark ShadowMovie • 1955
The Fast LadyMovie • 1962
GaslightMovie • 1940
I See a Dark StrangerMovie • 1946
The GhoulMovie • 1933
The Winslow BoyMovie • 1948
The Magic BoxMovie • 1952
Major BarbaraMovie • 1941
Night Must FallMovie • 1937
The Ghost TrainMovie • 1941
Wanted for MurderMovie • 1946
Waterloo RoadMovie • 1945