Renée Houston
Renée Houston (24 July 1902 - 9 February 1980) was a Scottish comedy actress and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles.
Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gribbin she toured music halls and revues with her sister Billie Houston as the "Houston Sisters".
In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film, the script of which Renée had written. It was produced by Lee De Forest, whose process, Phonofilm, enabled a soundtrack to be played alongside the film (a year before The Jazz Singer).
Houston married three times, the second was to the actor Pat Aherne, the brother of Brian Aherne. Her third husband was the actor Donald Stewart.
In her later years, she specialised in "battleaxe" roles, notably as shop steward Vic Spanner's (Kenneth Cope) formidable mother in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled Don't Fence Me In.
Houston was also in the early episodes of radio's The Clitheroe Kid and a regular guest on radio panel show The Petticoat Line chaired by Anona Winn.
She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980.
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Known for
The Saint
Ida Warshed
The Saint
Mrs. McAlister
Theatre 625
Madame Remy
No Hiding Place
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Maigret
Ja-Ja
Man of the World
Mrs Van Kempson
Repulsion
Mme Balch
Doctor in the House
The Comic
Olive
The Phantom of the Opera
Mrs. Tucker
The Key
Canteen Worker (uncredited)
Radio Parade
Cul-de-sac
Christopher's Mother
The Horse's Mouth
Sara Monday
Time Without Pity
Mrs. Harker
The Belles of St. Trinian's
Miss Brimmer
Watch It, Sailor!
Mrs. Mottram
Carry On Spying
Funhouse Madame
The Flesh and the Fiends
Helen Burke
A Town Like Alice
Ebbey
Carry On Cabby
Molly
Carry On at Your Convenience
Agatha Spanner
Legend of the Werewolf
Chou-Chou
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Lady Blanchflower
Twice Round the Daffodils
Matron
Tomorrow at Ten
Masie Maddox
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Beattie
Two Thousand Women
Maud Wright
And the Same to You
Mildred Pomphret
The Idol
1st Woman at Party
Old Bill and Son
Stella Malloy
Three on a Spree
Mrs. Gray
No, My Darling Daughter
Miss Yardley
Nurse on Wheels
Mrs. Beacon
The Big Money
Bobbie
Mister Cinders
Mrs. Phipps
A Girl Must Live
Gloria Lind
The Rescue Squad
Mrs Manse
The Rescue Squad
Mrs. Manse
Track the Man Down
Pat Sherwood
Their Night Out
Maggie Oliphant
The Peterville Diamond
Lady Margaret
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Down Melody Lane
Self
No Monkey Business
Lost In The Legion
Mary McFee
Fine Feathers
Teenie McPherson
Out of the Fog
Ma
River Rivals
Mrs. Fredericks
Come Into My Parlour
Jenny MacDonald
Happy Days Are Here Again
Kitty Seymour
The Nice Americans
Mrs. Adams