Catherine Lacey
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 television debut, in 1938, was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi; her last appearance, in 1973, was in the Play for Today instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.
The Lady Vanishes
as The NunOn a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a...
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Woman in WheelchairHolmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The...
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The Servant
as Lady MounsetHugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well...
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Whisky Galore!
as Mrs. WaggettBased on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S...
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The Mummy's Shroud
as HaitiArchaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be...
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I Know Where I'm Going!
as Mrs. RobinsonPlucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order...
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Cottage to Let
as Mrs. StokesAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime...
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The Sorcerers
as Estelle MonserratThe great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds,...
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The Shadow of the Cat
as Ella VenableTabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious,...
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
as Miss PorterMelodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a...
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The October Man
as Miss SelbyJim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a...
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Poison Pen
as Connie FateleyThe inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone...
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Crack in the Mirror
as Mother SuperiorThree stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in...
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The Man in the Sky
as Mary's motherThe efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two...
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
as Mrs. ArbuthnotMrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she...
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The White Unicorn
as Miss CaterIn a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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The Master Builder
as Mrs. SolnessHalvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a...
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Rockets Galore
as Mrs WaggettThe inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is,...
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Innocent Sinners
as Angela ChesneyA neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny...
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The Solitary Child
as Mrs. EvansA young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
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Another Sky
as Selena ProuseAfter a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
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Castle of Crimes
as Francine RollardA wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..
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Carnival
as Florry RaeburnA melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying...
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Maigret
as uncreditedBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs SteinbergAdaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Gideon's Way
as Sarah FischerGideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...
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Journey to the Unknown
as uncreditedA British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and...
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The Human Jungle
as Mrs. BoxThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
as Dowager Duchess of NorfolkSeries of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization...
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