
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