Kathleen Harrison
Acting
🎂 1892-02-22
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.
Cast credits(86)
Mrs. Ashworth
1965
Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)
1987
Mrs. Dilber
1951
Mrs Gibbons
1962
Mrs Sowerberry
1948
Mrs. Dollery
1979
Keith's Mother
1943
Miss Bourne
1941
Bit Role
1940
Elderly Lady
1979
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
1945
Mrs. Beckett
1963
Ethel Huggett
1949
Violet
1948
Mrs. Blake
1942
Emmie
1955
Lady Clumsey
1969
Kathleen
1941
Miss Gilly
1956
Mother in Family Group
1952
Ethel Brawn
1948
Rosie
1959
Mrs. Cooksley
1961
Mrs. Lossy
1936
Mabel
1938
Rachel Wardle
1952
Nannie Cartwright
1955
Waitress (uncredited)
1946
Emily Terence
1937
Mrs. Farrer
1958
Secretary
1936
Mme. Abou
1957
Florrie
1946
Annie
1937
Mrs. Henrietta Boffin
1976
Belinda
1937
Parlour Maid
1938
Granny Quilliam
1953
Bit Role
1932
Isobel
1949
Kate
1950
Cook
1940
Elsie Knowles
1956
Mrs. Staggers
1962
Mrs. Bardell
1945
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
1947
Mrs. Fossett
1953
Mrs. Price
1941
Mrs. Schifan
1940
Mrs. Coates
1939
Mrs. Brown
1949
1966
Nurse
1935
(voice)
1967
Mona's Mother
1949
1945
1964
Pub Customer
1945
Mrs. McCabe
1950
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
1950
Kaney
1933
Mrs. Catt
1947
Auntie
1941
Ethel Huggett
1948
Martha
1933
Mrs Frith
1958
Mrs. Lightbody
1940
Ethel Huggett
1949
Kate
1954
Mabel Slater
1947
Lillian Lord
1952
Amelia Peabody
1942
Housekeeper
1940
Kitchen Maid
1939
1934
May
1938
Ethel
1941
Mrs. Purkiss
1944
Penelope
1939
Confused Voter
1936
Ada Figgins
1931
Agnes Carter
1934
Jane (the Maid)
1935
Annie Yeo
1955
Ethel Huggett
1950
Mrs. James
1940