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Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

Born: 1904-05-06 • London, England, UK

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
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont poster
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
1973 • Mrs. Arbuthnot
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes poster
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 • Woman in Wheelchair
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Wine of India
1970 • Bee
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All's Well That Ends Well
1968 • Countess of Rousillon
The Sorcerers poster
The Sorcerers
1967 • Estelle Monserrat
The Mummy's Shroud poster
The Mummy's Shroud
1967 • Haiti
The Servant poster
The Servant
1963 • Lady Agatha Mounset
The Shadow of the Cat poster
The Shadow of the Cat
1961 • Ella Venable
Crack in the Mirror poster
Crack in the Mirror
1960 • Mother Superior
The Solitary Child poster
The Solitary Child
1958 • Mrs. Evans
Rockets Galore poster
Rockets Galore
1958 • Mrs Waggett
Innocent Sinners poster
Innocent Sinners
1958 • Angela Chesney
The Master Builder poster
The Master Builder
1958 • Mrs. Solness
The Man in the Sky poster
The Man in the Sky
1957 • Mary's mother
Another Sky poster
Another Sky
1954 • Selena Prouse
Whisky Galore! poster
Whisky Galore!
1949 • Mrs. Waggett
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When The Bough Breaks
1947 • Almoner
The White Unicorn poster
The White Unicorn
1947 • Miss Cater
The October Man poster
The October Man
1947 • Miss Selby
Carnival poster
Carnival
1946 • Florry Raeburn
Pink String and Sealing Wax poster
Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945 • Miss Porter
I Know Where I'm Going! poster
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 • Mrs. Robinson
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Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
1945 • Gentlewoman
Cottage to Let poster
Cottage to Let
1941 • Mrs. Stokes
Castle of Crimes poster
Castle of Crimes
1940 • Francine Rollard
Poison Pen poster
Poison Pen
1939 • Connie Fateley
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Marco Millions
1939
The Lady Vanishes poster
The Lady Vanishes
1938 • The Nun