Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

  • Birthday: 1904-05-06
  • Deathday: 1979-09-23
  • Place of birth: London, England, UK

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.

Filmography

The Shadow of the Cat

1961

As Ella Venable

The Servant

1963

As Lady Mounset

Whisky Galore!

1949

As Mrs. Waggett

The Mummy's Shroud

1967

As Haiti

The Sorcerers

1967

As Estelle Monserrat

I Know Where I'm Going!

1945

As Mrs. Robinson

Pink String and Sealing Wax

1945

As Miss Porter

Rockets Galore

1958

As Mrs Waggett

Innocent Sinners

1958

As Angela Chesney

When The Bough Breaks

1947

As Almoner

The White Unicorn

1947

As Miss Cater

Carnival

1946

As Florry Raeburn

Crack in the Mirror

1960

As Mother Superior

Poison Pen

1939

As Connie Fateley

Castle of Crimes

1940

As Francine Rollard

The October Man

1947

As Miss Selby

The Solitary Child

1958

As Mrs. Evans

All's Well That Ends Well

1968

As Countess of Rousillon

The Man in the Sky

1957

As Mary's mother

The Lady Vanishes

1938

As The Nun

Cottage to Let

1941

As Mrs. Stokes

Another Sky

1954

As Selena Prouse

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970

As Woman in Wheelchair

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

1973

As Mrs. Arbuthnot

The Master Builder

1958

As Mrs. Solness

Wine of India

1970

As Bee

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