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Catherine Lacey

Acting

  • Born
  • May 6, 1904
  • Died
  • September 23, 1979
  • 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.

As actor 41

Theatre 625 poster
Theatre 625
1964
The Wednesday Play poster
The Wednesday Play
1964
Gideon's Way poster
Gideon's Way
1965
Maigret poster
Maigret
1960
Drama 61-67
1961
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes poster
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Festival
1963
Espionage poster
Espionage
1963
The Human Jungle poster
The Human Jungle
1963
Journey to the Unknown poster
Journey to the Unknown
1968
The Six Wives of Henry VIII poster
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1970
The Lady Vanishes poster
The Lady Vanishes
1938
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes poster
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
The Servant poster
The Servant
1963
The Wednesday Thriller
1965
The Intruder poster
The Intruder
1972
Innocent Sinners poster
Innocent Sinners
1958
Poison Pen poster
Poison Pen
1939
I Know Where I'm Going! poster
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
Whisky Galore! poster
Whisky Galore!
1949
The Mummy's Shroud poster
The Mummy's Shroud
1967
Marco Millions
1939
Another Sky poster
Another Sky
1954
Crack in the Mirror poster
Crack in the Mirror
1960
Rockets Galore poster
Rockets Galore
1958
Cottage to Let poster
Cottage to Let
1941
The Shadow of the Cat poster
The Shadow of the Cat
1961
Pink String and Sealing Wax poster
Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945
The Man in the Sky poster
The Man in the Sky
1957
Carnival poster
Carnival
1946
The Sorcerers poster
The Sorcerers
1967
The October Man poster
The October Man
1947
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
The Solitary Child poster
The Solitary Child
1958
When The Bough Breaks
1947
Wine of India
1970
The White Unicorn poster
The White Unicorn
1947
The Master Builder poster
The Master Builder
1958
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont poster
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
1973
Castle of Crimes poster
Castle of Crimes
1940
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
1945