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.
Known for
BBC Play of the Month
Mrs. Ashworth
Lock Up Your Daughters
Lady Clumsey
Holiday Camp
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
Turn the Key Softly
Granny Quilliam
Scrooge
Mrs. Dilber
The Man from Toronto
Martha
The London Connection
Elderly Lady
The Day Begins Early
Ethel Huggett
The Ghoul
Kaney
Wanted for Murder
Florrie
Now Barabbas
Mrs. Brown
Waterloo Road
West 11
Mrs. Beckett
Alive and Kicking
Rosie
The Shop at Sly Corner
Mrs. Catt
Major Barbara
Mrs. Price
The Pickwick Papers
Rachel Wardle
Convict 99
Mabel
Night Must Fall
Emily Terence
The Fast Lady
Mrs. Staggers
In Which We Serve
Mrs. Blake
Seven Thunders
Mme. Abou
The Big Money
Mrs Frith
The Terror
Parlour Maid
Bank Holiday
May
The Great Defender
Agnes Carter
Danger UXB
Mrs. Dollery
The Magic Box
Mother in Family Group
Oliver Twist
Mrs Sowerberry
The Dog and the Diamonds
Mrs. Fossett
Temptation Harbour
Mabel Slater
Caesar and Cleopatra
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
The Outsider
Mrs. Coates
Great Day
Pub Customer
A Cry from the Streets
Mrs. Farrer
Meet Sexton Blake
Mrs. Bardell
Letter from Home
Ethel
Waterfront
Mrs. McCabe
The Ghost Train
Miss Bourne
Hobson's Choice
Ada Figgins
A Girl Must Live
Penelope
Bond Street
Ethel Brawn
Mrs Thursday
On the Fiddle
Mrs. Cooksley
What Happened Then?
Wanted!
Belinda
It Happened One Sunday
Mrs. Purkiss
Landfall
Mona's Mother
The Winslow Boy
Violet
Trio
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
Gaslight
Bit Role
Here Come the Huggetts
Ethel Huggett
Girl in the News
Cook
Our Mutual Friend
Henrietta Boffin
Once a Crook
Auntie
Inside the Room
Nurse
The Happy Family
Lillian Lord
The Huggetts Abroad
Ethel Huggett
Aren't Men Beasts!
Annie
It's a Wonderful World
Miss Gilly
Dandy Dick
Jane (the Maid)
The Flying Squad
Mrs. Schifan
Martin Chuzzlewit
Where There's a Will
Annie Yeo
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
I See a Dark Stranger
Waitress (uncredited)
Cast a Dark Shadow
Emmie
Much Too Shy
Amelia Peabody
Double Confession
Kate
They Came by Night
Mrs. Lightbody
Salvage with a Smile
Housekeeper
Vote for Huggett
Ethel Huggett
Blondes: Diana Dors
Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
Golden Arrow
Isobel
Broken Blossoms
Mrs. Lossy
I Thank You
Kathleen
A Call for Arms!
Mrs. James
The Tenth Man
Confused Voter
Aren't We All?
Bit Role
Lilacs in the Spring
Kate
Home and Away
Elsie Knowles
Jury's Evidence
Secretary
The New Lot
Keith's Mother
All for Mary
Nannie Cartwright
Discoveries
Kitchen Maid
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Mrs Gibbons