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Kathleen Harrison

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK, 1892-02-22

Died: 1995-12-07

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1931	Hobson's Choice	Ada Figgins	40
2	1932	Aren't We All?	Bit Role	0
3	1933	The Man from Toronto	Martha	40
4	1933	The Ghoul	Kaney	55
5	1934	What Happened Then?		50
6	1934	The Great Defender	Agnes Carter	48
7	1935	Dandy Dick	Jane (the Maid)	58
8	1935	Inside the Room	Nurse	50
9	1936	Jury's Evidence	Secretary	0
10	1936	Broken Blossoms	Mrs. Lossy	59
11	1936	The Tenth Man	Confused Voter	60
12	1937	Aren't Men Beasts!	Annie	0
13	1937	Night Must Fall	Emily Terence	70
14	1937	Wanted!	Belinda	0
15	1938	Bank Holiday	May	60
16	1938	The Terror	Parlour Maid	63
17	1938	Convict 99	Mabel	68
18	1939	The Outsider	Mrs. Coates	50
19	1939	Discoveries	Kitchen Maid	0
20	1939	A Girl Must Live	Penelope	43
21	1940	Salvage with a Smile	Housekeeper	0
22	1940	They Came by Night	Mrs. Lightbody	50
23	1940	Girl in the News	Cook	64
24	1940	Gaslight	Bit Role	71
25	1940	The Flying Squad	Mrs. Schifan	60
26	1940	A Call for Arms!	Mrs. James	0
27	1941	The Ghost Train	Miss Bourne	59
28	1941	Major Barbara	Mrs. Price	67
29	1941	Once a Crook	Auntie	0
30	1941	I Thank You	Kathleen	74
31	1941	Letter from Home	Ethel	70
32	1942	In Which We Serve	Mrs. Blake	68
33	1942	Much Too Shy	Amelia Peabody	62
34	1943	The New Lot	Keith's Mother	0
35	1944	It Happened One Sunday	Mrs. Purkiss	0
36	1945	Meet Sexton Blake	Mrs. Bardell	55
37	1945	Waterloo Road		62
38	1945	Great Day	Pub Customer	73
39	1945	Caesar and Cleopatra	Egyptian Woman (uncredited)	61
40	1946	Wanted for Murder	Florrie	63
41	1946	I See a Dark Stranger	Waitress (uncredited)	63
42	1947	Temptation Harbour	Mabel Slater	51
43	1947	The Shop at Sly Corner	Mrs. Catt	62
44	1947	Holiday Camp	Mrs. Ethel Huggett	61
45	1948	Bond Street	Ethel Brawn	68
46	1948	Oliver Twist	Mrs Sowerberry	75
47	1948	The Winslow Boy	Violet	70
48	1948	Here Come the Huggetts	Ethel Huggett	65
49	1949	Vote for Huggett	Ethel Huggett	66
50	1949	The Huggetts Abroad	Ethel Huggett	66
51	1949	Now Barabbas	Mrs. Brown	65
52	1949	Landfall	Mona's Mother	70
53	1949	Golden Arrow	Isobel	0
54	1950	Double Confession	Kate	61
55	1950	Waterfront	Mrs. McCabe	64
56	1950	Trio	Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)	63
57	1950	The Day Begins Early	Ethel Huggett	60
58	1951	Scrooge	Mrs. Dilber	74
59	1952	The Magic Box	Mother in Family Group	63
60	1952	The Happy Family	Lillian Lord	72
61	1952	The Pickwick Papers	Rachel Wardle	67
62	1953	Turn the Key Softly	Granny Quilliam	62
63	1953	The Dog and the Diamonds	Mrs. Fossett	55
64	1954	Lilacs in the Spring	Kate	55
65	1955	Where There's a Will	Annie Yeo	64
66	1955	Cast a Dark Shadow	Emmie	64
67	1955	All for Mary	Nannie Cartwright	62
68	1956	It's a Wonderful World	Miss Gilly	53
69	1956	Home and Away	Elsie Knowles	70
70	1957	Seven Thunders	Mme. Abou	55
71	1958	The Big Money	Mrs Frith	64
72	1958	A Cry from the Streets	Mrs. Farrer	72
73	1959	Alive and Kicking	Rosie	69
74	1961	On the Fiddle	Mrs. Cooksley	53
75	1962	The Fast Lady	Mrs. Staggers	57
76	1963	West 11	Mrs. Beckett	69
77	1969	Lock Up Your Daughters	Lady Clumsey	45
78	1979	The London Connection	Elderly Lady	78
79	1987	Lethal Weapon	Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)	73

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Martin Chuzzlewit		0
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Mrs. Ashworth	50
3	1966	Mrs Thursday		50
4	1967	NBC Experiment in Television	(voice)	0
5	1976	Our Mutual Friend	Mrs. Henrietta Boffin	0
6	1979	Danger UXB	Mrs. Dollery	80