Catherine Lacey

Birthday: 1904-05-06
Deathday: 1979-09-23
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
1973-10-18 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Mrs. Arbuthnot
1970-10-29 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Woman in Wheelchair
1970-04-15 Wine of India Bee
1968-03-06 All's Well That Ends Well Countess of Rousillon
1967-06-25 The Sorcerers Estelle Monserrat
1967-03-15 The Mummy's Shroud Haiti
1963-11-14 The Servant Lady Mounset
1961-05-01 The Shadow of the Cat Ella Venable
1960-05-19 Crack in the Mirror Mother Superior
1958-12-09 The Solitary Child Mrs. Evans
1958-10-19 Rockets Galore Mrs Waggett
1958-03-25 Innocent Sinners Angela Chesney
1958-02-23 The Master Builder Mrs. Solness
1957-01-24 The Man in the Sky Mary's mother
1954-01-01 Another Sky Selena Prouse
1949-06-16 Whisky Galore! Mrs. Waggett
1947-11-19 When The Bough Breaks Almoner
1947-10-29 The White Unicorn Miss Cater
1947-08-28 The October Man Miss Selby
1946-12-02 Carnival Florry Raeburn
1945-11-22 Pink String and Sealing Wax Miss Porter
1945-11-16 I Know Where I'm Going! Mrs. Robinson
1941-09-06 Cottage to Let Mrs. Stokes
1940-10-26 Castle of Crimes Francine Rollard
1939-07-03 Poison Pen Connie Fateley
1939-01-02 Marco Millions
1938-10-07 The Lady Vanishes The Nun