Kathleen Harrison

Biography

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

Danger UXB

Mrs. Dollery

NBC Experiment in Television

(voice)

Lethal Weapon

Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mrs Thursday

Our Mutual Friend

Mrs. Henrietta Boffin

Scrooge

Mrs. Dilber

Oliver Twist

Mrs Sowerberry

The Winslow Boy

Violet

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1987	Lethal Weapon	Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979	The London Connection	Elderly Lady
1969	Lock Up Your Daughters	Lady Clumsey
1963	West 11	Mrs. Beckett
1962	The Fast Lady	Mrs. Staggers
1961	On the Fiddle	Mrs. Cooksley
1959	Alive and Kicking	Rosie
1958	The Big Money	Mrs Frith
1958	A Cry from the Streets	Mrs. Farrer
1957	Seven Thunders	Mme. Abou
1956	It's a Wonderful World	Miss Gilly
1956	Home and Away	Elsie Knowles
1955	Cast a Dark Shadow	Emmie
1955	Where There's a Will	Annie Yeo
1955	All for Mary	Nannie Cartwright
1954	Lilacs in the Spring	Kate
1953	Turn the Key Softly	Granny Quilliam
1953	The Dog and the Diamonds	Mrs. Fossett
1952	The Happy Family	Lillian Lord
1952	The Magic Box	Mother in Family Group
1952	The Pickwick Papers	Rachel Wardle
1951	Scrooge	Mrs. Dilber
1950	Double Confession	Kate
1950	Waterfront	Mrs. McCabe
1950	Trio	Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
1950	The Day Begins Early	Ethel Huggett
1949	Now Barabbas	Mrs. Brown
1949	Landfall	Mona's Mother
1949	Vote for Huggett	Ethel Huggett
1949	The Huggetts Abroad	Ethel Huggett
1949	Golden Arrow	Isobel
1948	The Winslow Boy	Violet
1948	Bond Street	Ethel Brawn
1948	Here Come the Huggetts	Ethel Huggett
1948	Oliver Twist	Mrs Sowerberry
1947	The Shop at Sly Corner	Mrs. Catt
1947	Holiday Camp	Mrs. Ethel Huggett
1947	Temptation Harbour	Mabel Slater
1946	Wanted for Murder	Florrie
1946	I See a Dark Stranger	Waitress (uncredited)
1945	Meet Sexton Blake	Mrs. Bardell
1945	Caesar and Cleopatra	Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
1945	Great Day	Pub Customer
1945	Waterloo Road
1944	It Happened One Sunday	Mrs. Purkiss
1943	The New Lot	Keith's Mother
1942	Much Too Shy	Amelia Peabody
1942	In Which We Serve	Mrs. Blake
1941	The Ghost Train	Miss Bourne
1941	Once a Crook	Auntie
1941	Letter from Home	Ethel
1941	I Thank You	Kathleen
1941	Major Barbara	Mrs. Price
1940	They Came by Night	Mrs. Lightbody
1940	The Flying Squad	Mrs. Schifan
1940	Gaslight	Bit Role
1940	Girl in the News	Cook
1940	Salvage with a Smile	Housekeeper
1940	A Call for Arms!	Mrs. James
1939	A Girl Must Live	Penelope
1939	The Outsider	Mrs. Coates
1939	Discoveries	Kitchen Maid
1938	Bank Holiday	May
1938	Convict 99	Mabel
1938	The Terror	Parlour Maid
1937	Night Must Fall	Emily Terence
1937	Aren't Men Beasts!	Annie
1937	Wanted!	Belinda
1936	Jury's Evidence	Secretary
1936	The Tenth Man	Confused Voter
1936	Broken Blossoms	Mrs. Lossy
1935	Dandy Dick	Jane (the Maid)
1935	Inside the Room	Nurse
1934	The Great Defender	Agnes Carter
1934	What Happened Then?
1933	The Ghoul	Kaney
1933	The Man from Toronto	Martha
1932	Aren't We All?	Bit Role
1931	Hobson's Choice	Ada Figgins

Year	TV Show	Role
1979	Danger UXB	Mrs. Dollery
1976	Our Mutual Friend	Mrs. Henrietta Boffin
1967	NBC Experiment in Television	(voice)
1966	Mrs Thursday
1964	Martin Chuzzlewit