Catherine Lacey

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

Born: London, England, UK, 1904-05-06

Died: 1979-09-23

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1938	The Lady Vanishes	The Nun	74
2	1939	Marco Millions		0
3	1939	Poison Pen	Connie Fateley	65
4	1940	Castle of Crimes	Francine Rollard	0
5	1941	Cottage to Let	Mrs. Stokes	65
6	1945	I Know Where I'm Going!	Mrs. Robinson	71
7	1945	Pink String and Sealing Wax	Miss Porter	63
8	1946	Carnival	Florry Raeburn	76
9	1947	The October Man	Miss Selby	62
10	1947	The White Unicorn	Miss Cater	75
11	1947	When The Bough Breaks	Almoner	63
12	1949	Whisky Galore!	Mrs. Waggett	68
13	1954	Another Sky	Selena Prouse	48
14	1957	The Man in the Sky	Mary's mother	71
15	1958	The Master Builder	Mrs. Solness	0
16	1958	Innocent Sinners	Angela Chesney	70
17	1958	Rockets Galore	Mrs Waggett	60
18	1958	The Solitary Child	Mrs. Evans	50
19	1960	Crack in the Mirror	Mother Superior	75
20	1961	The Shadow of the Cat	Ella Venable	68
21	1963	The Servant	Lady Agatha Mounset	76
22	1967	The Mummy's Shroud	Haiti	55
23	1967	The Sorcerers	Estelle Monserrat	62
24	1968	All's Well That Ends Well	Countess of Rousillon	0
25	1970	Wine of India	Bee	0
26	1970	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes	Woman in Wheelchair	68
27	1973	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont	Mrs. Arbuthnot	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Maigret		69
2	1963	The Human Jungle	Mrs. Box	82
3	1965	Gideon's Way	Sarah Fischer	68
4	1968	Journey to the Unknown		63
5	1970	The Six Wives of Henry VIII	Dowager Duchess of Norfolk	81
6	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Mrs Steinberg	73