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