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.
Born: Born: Feb 23, 1892
Known As: Actor
FILMOGRAPHY
1979: Danger UXB
1966: Mrs Thursday
1964: Martin Chuzzlewit
1963: West 11
1962: The Fast Lady
1961: On the Fiddle
1959: Alive and Kicking
1958: The Big Money
1958: A Cry from the Streets
1957: Seven Thunders
1956: It’s a Wonderful World
1956: Home and Away
1955: Where There’s a Will
1955: All for Mary
1955: Cast a Dark Shadow
1954: Lilacs in the Spring
1953: Turn the Key Softly
1953: The Dog and the Diamonds
1952: The Pickwick Papers
1952: The Happy Family
1951: The Magic Box
1951: Scrooge
1950: Double Confession
1950: Trio
1950: Waterfront Women
1949: Vote for Huggett
1949: The Huggetts Abroad
1949: Golden Arrow
1949: Now Barabbas
1949: Landfall
1948: Bond Street
1948: Oliver Twist
1948: Here Come the Huggetts
1948: The Winslow Boy
1947: The Shop at Sly Corner
1947: Holiday Camp
1946: Wanted for Murder
1946: I See a Dark Stranger
1945: Meet Sexton Blake
1945: Caesar and Cleopatra
1945: Great Day
1944: It Happened One Sunday
1943: The New Lot
1942: Much Too Shy
1942: In Which We Serve
1941: Major Barbara
1941: The Ghost Train
1941: Once a Crook
1941: I Thank You
1940: Gaslight
1940: Salvage with a Smile
1940: They Came by Night
1940: A Call for Arms!
1940: The Flying Squad
1940: Girl in the News
1939: The Outsider
1939: Discoveries
1939: A Girl Must Live
1938: Bank Holiday
1938: The Terror
1937: Aren’t Men Beasts!
1937: Night Must Fall
1937: Wanted!
1936: Broken Blossoms
1936: The Tenth Man
1935: Dandy Dick
1934: What Happened Then?
1934: The Great Defender
1933: The Ghoul
1933: The Man from Toronto
1932: Aren’t We All?
1931: Hobson’s Choice
