Kathleen Harrison
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.
87 acting credits
Acting · 87
BBC Play of the Month
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Danger UXB
1979
Scrooge
1951
Oliver Twist
1948
NBC Experiment in Television
1967
Our Mutual Friend
1976
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
In Which We Serve
1942
Major Barbara
1941
Mrs Thursday
1966
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Now Barabbas
1949
Trio
1950
The Ghost Train
1941
Waterfront
1950
The Magic Box
1952
Bank Holiday
1938
The Winslow Boy
1948
The Fast Lady
1962
Alive and Kicking
1959
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
Gaslight
1940
The Shop at Sly Corner
1947
The Ghoul
1933
Temptation Harbour
1947
The Outsider
1939
Waterloo Road
1945
Landfall
1949
Letter from Home
1941
Broken Blossoms
1936
Aren't We All?
1932
A Call for Arms!
1940
Holiday Camp
1947
The New Lot
1943
Where There's a Will
1955
Vote for Huggett
1949
The Happy Family
1952
Night Must Fall
1937
Here Come the Huggetts
1948
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955
Convict 99
1938
The London Connection
1979
On the Fiddle
1961
The Pickwick Papers
1952
West 11
1963
Wanted for Murder
1946
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
Great Day
1945
Bond Street
1948
The Big Money
1958
Home and Away
1956
The Man from Toronto
1933
Dandy Dick
1935
A Cry from the Streets
1958
The Terror
1938
Blondes: Diana Dors
1999
Girl in the News
1940
Lilacs in the Spring
1954
The Huggetts Abroad
1949
Double Confession
1950
Wanted!
1937
I Thank You
1941
A Girl Must Live
1939
It's a Wonderful World
1956
All for Mary
1955
The Flying Squad
1940
Turn the Key Softly
1953
The Dog and the Diamonds
1953
Seven Thunders
1957
It Happened One Sunday
1944
The Great Defender
1934
They Came by Night
1940
Much Too Shy
1942
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
1962
The Tenth Man
1936
Aren't Men Beasts!
1937
Hobson's Choice
1931
What Happened Then?
1934
Meet Sexton Blake
1945
Jury's Evidence
1936
The Day Begins Early
1950
Inside the Room
1935
Salvage with a Smile
1940
Golden Arrow
1949
Discoveries
1939
Once a Crook
1941