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Kathleen Harrison
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
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 expr…
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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.
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1999
Blondes: Diana Dors
Movie Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
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1979
The London Connection
Movie Elderly Lady
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1979
Danger UXB
TV show Mrs. Dollery
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1976
Our Mutual Friend
TV show Henrietta Boffin
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1969
Lock Up Your Daughters
Movie Lady Clumsey
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Rose
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1967
NBC Experiment in Television
TV show (voice)
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1966
Mrs Thursday
TV show
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1965
BBC Play of the Month
TV show Mrs. Ashworth
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1964
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV show
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1963
West 11
Movie Mrs. Beckett
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1962
The Fast Lady
Movie Mrs. Staggers
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1962
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Movie Mrs Gibbons
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1961
On the Fiddle
Movie Mrs. Cooksley
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1959
Alive and Kicking
Movie Rosie
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1958
A Cry from the Streets
Movie Mrs. Farrer
More credits
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1958
The Big Money
Movie Mrs Frith
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1957
Seven Thunders
Movie Mme. Abou
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1956
Home and Away
Movie Elsie Knowles
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1956
It's a Wonderful World
Movie Miss Gilly
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1955
All for Mary
Movie Nannie Cartwright
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1955
Cast a Dark Shadow
Movie Emmie
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1955
Where There's a Will
Movie Annie Yeo
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1954
Lilacs in the Spring
Movie Kate
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1953
The Dog and the Diamonds
Movie Mrs. Fossett
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1953
Turn the Key Softly
Movie Granny Quilliam
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1952
The Pickwick Papers
Movie Rachel Wardle
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1952
The Happy Family
Movie Lillian Lord
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1952
The Magic Box
Movie Mother in Family Group
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1951
Scrooge
Movie Mrs. Dilber
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1950
The Day Begins Early
Movie Ethel Huggett
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1950
Trio
Movie Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
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1950
Waterfront
Movie Mrs. McCabe
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1950
Double Confession
Movie Kate
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1949
Golden Arrow
Movie Isobel
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1949
Landfall
Movie Mona's Mother
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1949
Now Barabbas
Movie Mrs. Brown
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1949
The Huggetts Abroad
Movie Ethel Huggett
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1949
Vote for Huggett
Movie Ethel Huggett
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1948
Here Come the Huggetts
Movie Ethel Huggett
