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