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Catherine Lacey

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
42

Gender
Female

Birthday
May 6, 1904 (122 years old)

Place of Birth
London, England, UK

Catherine Lacey

Biography

From Wikipedia

Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen.

She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, but was credited as Catherine Lacy. She was subsequently cast in major films like I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), The October Man (1947), Whisky Galore! (1949), The Servant (1963) and The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966), in which she played Queen Elizabeth I. In 1966/67 she played in two notable horror films, as a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and as Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers. For the latter she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968.

Eight years earlier she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year. Her television debut, in 1938, was in a BBC production of The Duchess of Malfi; her last appearance, in 1973, was in the Play for Today instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.

Known For

Acting

1973Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremontas Mrs. Arbuthnot
1972The Intruderas Miss Hendry
1971The Rivals of Sherlock Holmesas Mrs Steinberg
1970The Private Life of Sherlock Holmesas Woman in Wheelchair
1970Wine of Indiaas Bee
1970The Six Wives of Henry VIIIas Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
1968Journey to the Unknownas Miss Sarah Prinn
1968All's Well That Ends Wellas Countess of Rousillon
1967The Sorcerersas Estelle Monserrat
1967The Mummy's Shroudas Haiti
1965The Wednesday Thrilleras Miss Chafecote
1965Gideon's Wayas Sarah Fischer
1964The Wednesday Playas Bee
1964The Wednesday Playas Frau Mittermayer
1964Theatre 625as
1963The Servantas Lady Agatha Mounset
1963Festivalas The Rat-Wife
1963Espionageas Mother
1963The Human Jungleas Mrs. Box
1961The Shadow of the Catas Ella Venable
1961Drama 61-67as Mrs. Mourtzinos
1960Maigretas
1960Crack in the Mirroras Mother Superior
1958The Solitary Childas Mrs. Evans
1958Rockets Galoreas Mrs Waggett
1958Innocent Sinnersas Angela Chesney
1958The Master Builderas Aline Solness
1957The Man in the Skyas Mary's mother
1954Another Skyas Selena Prouse
1949Whisky Galore!as Mrs. Waggett
1947When The Bough Breaksas Almoner
1947The White Unicornas Miss Cater
1947The October Manas Miss Selby
1946Carnivalas Florry Raeburn
1945Pink String and Sealing Waxas Miss Porter
1945I Know Where I'm Going!as Mrs. Robinson
1945Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene Ias Gentlewoman
1941Cottage to Letas Mrs. Stokes
1940Castle of Crimesas Francine Rollard
1939Poison Penas Connie Fateley
1939Marco Millionsas
1938The Lady Vanishesas The Nun

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