Renée Houston

Renée Houston (24 July 1902 - 9 February 1980) was a Scottish comedy actress and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles. Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gribbin she toured music halls and revues with her sister Billie Houston as the "Houston Sisters". In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film, the script of which Renée had written. It was produced by Lee De Forest, whose process, Phonofilm, enabled a soundtrack to be played alongside the film (a year before The Jazz Singer). Houston married three times, the second was to the actor Pat Aherne, the brother of Brian Aherne. Her third husband was the actor Donald Stewart. In her later years, she specialised in "battleaxe" roles, notably as shop steward Vic Spanner's (Kenneth Cope) formidable mother in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled Don't Fence Me In. Houston was also in the early episodes of radio's The Clitheroe Kid and a regular guest on radio panel show The Petticoat Line chaired by Anona Winn. She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For: Acting

Born: Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK, 1902-07-24

Died: 1980-02-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Come Into My Parlour	Jenny MacDonald	0
2	1933	Their Night Out	Maggie Oliphant	0
3	1933	Radio Parade		0
4	1934	Lost In The Legion	Mary McFee	0
5	1935	Mister Cinders	Mrs. Phipps	0
6	1935	No Monkey Business		0
7	1936	Happy Days Are Here Again	Kitty Seymour	0
8	1937	Fine Feathers	Teenie McPherson	0
9	1939	A Girl Must Live	Gloria Lind	43
10	1941	Old Bill and Son	Stella Malloy	65
11	1943	Down Melody Lane	Self	0
12	1943	The Peterville Diamond	Lady Margaret	53
13	1944	Two Thousand Women	Maud Wright	69
14	1951	Lady Godiva Rides Again	Beattie	58
15	1954	The Belles of St. Trinian's	Miss Brimmer	63
16	1955	Track the Man Down	Pat Sherwood	58
17	1956	A Town Like Alice	Ebbey	63
18	1957	Time Without Pity	Mrs. Harker	66
19	1958	The Nice Americans	Mrs. Adams	0
20	1958	The Key	Canteen Worker (uncredited)	60
21	1958	The Big Money	Bobbie	64
22	1958	The Horse's Mouth	Sara Monday	68
23	1960	And the Same to You	Mildred Pomphret	56
24	1960	The Flesh and the Fiends	Helen Burke	66
25	1961	Three on a Spree	Mrs. Gray	60
26	1961	Watch It, Sailor!	Mrs. Mottram	65
27	1961	No, My Darling Daughter	Miss Yardley	63
28	1962	Twice Round the Daffodils	Matron	66
29	1962	The Phantom of the Opera	Mrs. Tucker	64
30	1962	Out of the Fog	Ma	65
31	1963	The Rescue Squad	Mrs Manse	45
32	1963	The Rescue Squad	Mrs. Manse	45
33	1963	Nurse on Wheels	Mrs. Beacon	58
34	1963	Carry On Cabby	Molly	65
35	1963	Tomorrow at Ten	Masie Maddox	61
36	1964	Carry On Spying	Funhouse Madame	65
37	1965	Repulsion	Mme Balch	74
38	1966	Secrets of a Windmill Girl		30
39	1966	The Idol	1st Woman at Party	49
40	1966	Cul-de-sac	Christopher's Mother	67
41	1966	The Spy with a Cold Nose	Lady Blanchflower	33
42	1967	River Rivals	Mrs. Fredericks	0
43	1969	The Comic	Olive	0
44	1971	Carry On at Your Convenience	Agatha Spanner	62
45	1975	Legend of the Werewolf	Chou-Chou	53

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1960	Maigret	Ja-Ja	69
3	1962	Dr. Finlay's Casebook		60
4	1962	The Saint	Ida Warshed	73
5	1962	The Saint	Mrs. McAlister	73
6	1969	Doctor in the House		43

Renée Houston

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