Kathleen Harrison

Born: 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.


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as Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1987-03-06

Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs,...

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Oliver Twist

as Mrs Sowerberry
Released: 1948-06-28

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second...

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Scrooge

as Mrs. Dilber
Released: 1951-11-28

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he...

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In Which We Serve

as Mrs. Blake
Released: 1942-09-17

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during...

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Gaslight

as Bit Role
Released: 1940-08-31

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-11

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard...

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Cast a Dark Shadow

as Emmie
Released: 1955-09-20

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his...

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The Winslow Boy

as Violet
Released: 1948-09-24

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his...

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The Ghoul

as Kaney
Released: 1933-08-01

Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried...

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Landfall

as Mona's Mother
Released: 1949-09-30

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a...

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Bank Holiday

as May
Released: 1938-01-27

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to...

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Wanted for Murder

as Florrie
Released: 1946-06-17

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to...

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Major Barbara

as Mrs. Price
Released: 1941-05-14

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She...

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Temptation Harbour

as Mabel Slater
Released: 1947-02-27

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a...

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The Magic Box

as Mother in Family Group
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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Holiday Camp

as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
Released: 1947-08-05

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on...

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Waterfront

as Mrs. McCabe
Released: 1950-07-26

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her...

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Night Must Fall

as Emily Terence
Released: 1937-04-30

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's...

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Dandy Dick

as Jane (the Maid)
Released: 1935-03-01

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of...

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Seven Thunders

as Mme. Abou
Released: 1957-09-04

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

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Waterloo Road

as uncredited
Released: 1945-02-05

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and...

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The Fast Lady

as Mrs. Staggers
Released: 1962-12-14

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon...

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A Cry from the Streets

as Mrs. Farrer
Released: 1958-08-12

Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann...

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Convict 99

as Mabel
Released: 1938-09-26

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned...

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The Ghost Train

as Miss Bourne
Released: 1941-05-05

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn...

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The New Lot

as Keith's Mother
Released: 1943-01-01

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment,...

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The London Connection

as Elderly Lady
Released: 1979-12-21

A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases,...

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Great Day

as Pub Customer
Released: 1945-07-09

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles...

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Trio

as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Released: 1950-10-10

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

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The Shop at Sly Corner

as Mrs. Catt
Released: 1947-03-10

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with...

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I See a Dark Stranger

as Waitress (uncredited)
Released: 1946-07-04

Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are...

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Alive and Kicking

as Rosie
Released: 1959-07-13

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an...

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The Flying Squad

as Mrs. Schifan
Released: 1940-10-12

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling...

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Double Confession

as Kate
Released: 1950-04-30

The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He...

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The Pickwick Papers

as Rachel Wardle
Released: 1952-11-14

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to...

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Vote for Huggett

as Ethel Huggett
Released: 1949-02-01

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front...

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They Came by Night

as Mrs. Lightbody
Released: 1940-03-07

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

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Broken Blossoms

as Mrs. Lossy
Released: 1936-05-20

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake...

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The Huggetts Abroad

as Ethel Huggett
Released: 1949-03-21

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get...

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Bond Street

as Ethel Brawn
Released: 1948-05-12

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond...

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West 11

as Mrs. Beckett
Released: 1963-10-08

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of...

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Lock Up Your Daughters

as Lady Clumsey
Released: 1969-03-29

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

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Meet Sexton Blake

as Mrs. Bardell
Released: 1945-02-05

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find...

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Here Come the Huggetts

as Ethel Huggett
Released: 1948-12-02

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for...

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The Terror

as Parlour Maid
Released: 1938-05-02

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his...

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Golden Arrow

as Isobel
Released: 1949-12-31

On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other...

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It's a Wonderful World

as Miss Gilly
Released: 1956-08-28

Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a...

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I Thank You

as Kathleen
Released: 1941-10-20

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a...

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Where There's a Will

as Annie Yeo
Released: 1955-03-01

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave...

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Turn the Key Softly

as Granny Quilliam
Released: 1953-04-29

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

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Home and Away

as Elsie Knowles
Released: 1956-09-04

When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But...

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The Dog and the Diamonds

as Mrs. Fossett
Released: 1953-11-01

A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be...

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All for Mary

as Nannie Cartwright
Released: 1955-12-21

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both...

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On the Fiddle

as Mrs. Cooksley
Released: 1961-10-10

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main...

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Lilacs in the Spring

as Kate
Released: 1954-12-21

A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each...

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Girl in the News

as Cook
Released: 1940-08-28

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The...

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Now Barabbas

as Mrs. Brown
Released: 1949-05-24

A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.

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What Happened Then?

as uncredited
Released: 1934-09-24

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had...

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The Big Money

as Mrs Frith
Released: 1958-06-09

Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have...

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Aren't We All?

as Bit Role
Released: 1932-03-17

Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than...

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Much Too Shy

as Amelia Peabody
Released: 1942-10-12

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders...

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The Great Defender

as Agnes Carter
Released: 1934-11-26

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly...

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The Outsider

as Mrs. Coates
Released: 1939-01-30

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love...

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A Girl Must Live

as Penelope
Released: 1939-09-24

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

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Aren't Men Beasts!

as Annie
Released: 1937-01-19

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a...

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The Man from Toronto

as Martha
Released: 1933-01-01

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an...

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Wanted!

as Belinda
Released: 1937-08-23

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns...

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Salvage with a Smile

as Housekeeper
Released: 1940-01-01

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the...

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Jury's Evidence

as Secretary
Released: 1936-01-01

'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder...

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The Tenth Man

as Confused Voter
Released: 1936-08-12

George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the...

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Letter from Home

as Ethel
Released: 1941-12-01

Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor,...

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Hobson's Choice

as Ada Figgins
Released: 1931-10-02

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

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Danger UXB

as Mrs. Dollery
First aired: 1979-01-08

Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John...

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Our Mutual Friend

as Mrs. Henrietta Boffin
First aired: 1976-03-01

Based on the Dickens novel, tells the story of a young man who's inherited fortune hangs on his...

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NBC Experiment in Television

as voice
First aired:

An attempt by NBC to emulate the success of the CBS hit The Twilight Zone, this hour-long...

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Mrs Thursday

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-03-15

Mrs Thursday is a British comedy-drama produced by Associated Television, devised by Lord Ted...

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