Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 6, 1904
Place of Birth:
London, England, UK
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Catherine Lacey
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Mrs. Arbuthnot |
| 1970 | Wine of India | Bee |
| 1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Woman in Wheelchair |
| 1968 | All's Well That Ends Well | Countess of Rousillon |
| 1967 | The Mummy's Shroud | Haiti |
| 1967 | The Sorcerers | Estelle Monserrat |
| 1963 | The Servant | Lady Agatha Mounset |
| 1961 | The Shadow of the Cat | Ella Venable |
| 1960 | Crack in the Mirror | Mother Superior |
| 1958 | Rockets Galore | Mrs Waggett |
| 1958 | Innocent Sinners | Angela Chesney |
| 1958 | The Master Builder | Mrs. Solness |
| 1958 | The Solitary Child | Mrs. Evans |
| 1957 | The Man in the Sky | Mary's mother |
| 1954 | Another Sky | Selena Prouse |
| 1949 | Whisky Galore! | Mrs. Waggett |
| 1947 | When The Bough Breaks | Almoner |
| 1947 | The White Unicorn | Miss Cater |
| 1947 | The October Man | Miss Selby |
| 1946 | Carnival | Florry Raeburn |
| 1945 | I Know Where I'm Going! | Mrs. Robinson |
| 1945 | Pink String and Sealing Wax | Miss Porter |
| 1941 | Cottage to Let | Mrs. Stokes |
| 1940 | Castle of Crimes | Francine Rollard |
| 1939 | Marco Millions | |
| 1939 | Poison Pen | Connie Fateley |
| 1938 | The Lady Vanishes | The Nun |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Mrs Steinberg |
| 1970 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Dowager Duchess of Norfolk |
| 1968 | Journey to the Unknown | |
| 1965 | Gideon's Way | Sarah Fischer |
| 1963 | The Human Jungle | Mrs. Box |
| 1960 | Maigret |