Known For
Acting
Known Credits
42
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 6, 1904 (122 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
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.
| 1973 | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremontas Mrs. Arbuthnot | |
| 1972 | The Intruderas Miss Hendry | |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmesas Mrs Steinberg | |
| 1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmesas Woman in Wheelchair | |
| 1970 | Wine of Indiaas Bee | |
| 1970 | The Six Wives of Henry VIIIas Dowager Duchess of Norfolk | |
| 1968 | Journey to the Unknownas Miss Sarah Prinn | |
| 1968 | All's Well That Ends Wellas Countess of Rousillon | |
| 1967 | The Sorcerersas Estelle Monserrat | |
| 1967 | The Mummy's Shroudas Haiti | |
| 1965 | The Wednesday Thrilleras Miss Chafecote | |
| 1965 | Gideon's Wayas Sarah Fischer | |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Playas Bee | |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Playas Frau Mittermayer | |
| 1964 | Theatre 625as | |
| 1963 | The Servantas Lady Agatha Mounset | |
| 1963 | Festivalas The Rat-Wife | |
| 1963 | Espionageas Mother | |
| 1963 | The Human Jungleas Mrs. Box | |
| 1961 | The Shadow of the Catas Ella Venable | |
| 1961 | Drama 61-67as Mrs. Mourtzinos | |
| 1960 | Maigretas | |
| 1960 | Crack in the Mirroras Mother Superior | |
| 1958 | The Solitary Childas Mrs. Evans | |
| 1958 | Rockets Galoreas Mrs Waggett | |
| 1958 | Innocent Sinnersas Angela Chesney | |
| 1958 | The Master Builderas Aline Solness | |
| 1957 | The Man in the Skyas Mary's mother | |
| 1954 | Another Skyas Selena Prouse | |
| 1949 | Whisky Galore!as Mrs. Waggett | |
| 1947 | When The Bough Breaksas Almoner | |
| 1947 | The White Unicornas Miss Cater | |
| 1947 | The October Manas Miss Selby | |
| 1946 | Carnivalas Florry Raeburn | |
| 1945 | Pink String and Sealing Waxas Miss Porter | |
| 1945 | I Know Where I'm Going!as Mrs. Robinson | |
| 1945 | Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene Ias Gentlewoman | |
| 1941 | Cottage to Letas Mrs. Stokes | |
| 1940 | Castle of Crimesas Francine Rollard | |
| 1939 | Poison Penas Connie Fateley | |
| 1939 | Marco Millionsas | |
| 1938 | The Lady Vanishesas The Nun |