Kathleen Harrison was long a stalwart of British cinema. Her place was always firmly below stairs – a cook perhaps, or a cleaning lady often answering the door with a puzzled expression always fearful that trouble was just around the corner.She was born in 1892 in Blackburn in Lancashire. She studied at RADA and then went to live in Agentina for some time. On her return to Britain, she made her stage debut in 1926 in “The Constant Flirt”. Her first major film role was in 1931 in “Hobson’s Choice”. Kathleen Harrison made one film in Hollywood in Emlyn Williams “Night Must Fall” in 1937 as a maid (naturally). She achieved national fame as Mrs Huggett in four films about the Huggett family. In the mid 1960′s she starred in a very popular television series Mrs Thursday about a cleaner who won the football pools. She died in 1995 at the age of 103.

All movies available from Kathleen Harrison

Poster movie Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Movie
Poster movie West 11

West 11

Movie
Poster movie In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

Movie
Poster movie Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

Tv series

Movies unavailable from Kathleen Harrison

Jury's Evidence

Secretary

Movie 1936

Scrooge

Mrs. Dilber

Movie 1951

Cast a Dark Shadow

Emmie

Movie 1955

The Ghoul

Kaney

Movie 1933

The Ghost Train

Miss Bourne

Movie 1941

Double Confession

Kate

Movie 1950

The Fast Lady

Mrs. Staggers

Movie 1962

Bank Holiday

May

Movie 1938

Convict 99

Mabel

Movie 1938

Wanted for Murder

Florrie

Movie 1946

The Shop at Sly Corner

Mrs. Catt

Movie 1947

Night Must Fall

Emily Terence

Movie 1937

The Winslow Boy

Violet

Movie 1948

Waterfront

Mrs. McCabe

Movie 1950

Turn the Key Softly

Granny Quilliam

Movie 1953

Once a Crook

Auntie

Movie 1941

Now Barabbas

Mrs. Brown

Movie 1949

Trio

Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)

Movie 1950

The Big Money

Mrs Frith

Movie 1958

On the Fiddle

Mrs. Cooksley

Movie 1961

Seven Thunders

Mme. Abou

Movie 1957

Lock Up Your Daughters

Lady Clumsey

Movie 1969

They Came by Night

Mrs. Lightbody

Movie 1940

Landfall

Mona's Mother

Movie 1949

Alive and Kicking

Rosie

Movie 1959

Meet Sexton Blake

Mrs. Bardell

Movie 1945

Bond Street

Ethel Brawn

Movie 1948

It Happened One Sunday

Mrs. Purkiss

Movie 1944

The Huggetts Abroad

Ethel Huggett

Movie 1949

Here Come the Huggetts

Ethel Huggett

Movie 1948

Vote for Huggett

Ethel Huggett

Movie 1949

Holiday Camp

Mrs. Ethel Huggett

Movie 1947

Lilacs in the Spring

Kate

Movie 1954

Much Too Shy

Amelia Peabody

Movie 1942

Where There's a Will

Annie Yeo

Movie 1955

The Happy Family

Lillian Lord

Movie 1952

It's a Wonderful World

Miss Gilly

Movie 1956

Letter from Home

Ethel

Movie 1941

Temptation Harbour

Mabel Slater

Movie 1947

The Man from Toronto

Martha

Movie 1933

A Cry from the Streets

Mrs. Farrer

Movie 1958

The Flying Squad

Mrs. Schifan

Movie 1940

A Girl Must Live

Penelope

Movie 1939

The Great Defender

Agnes Carter

Movie 1934

The London Connection

Elderly Lady

Movie 1979

Home and Away

Elsie Knowles

Movie 1956

Girl in the News

Cook

Movie 1940

Gaslight

Bit Role

Movie 1940

The Tenth Man

Confused Voter

Movie 1936

The Outsider

Mrs. Coates

Movie 1939

Aren't We All?

Bit Role

Movie 1932

Golden Arrow

Isobel

Movie 1949

The Dog and the Diamonds

Mrs. Fossett

Movie 1953

Aren't Men Beasts!

Annie

Movie 1937

I Thank You

Kathleen

Movie 1941

What Happened Then?

Movie 1934

Major Barbara

Mrs. Price

Movie 1941

The Magic Box

Mother in Family Group

Movie 1952

Hobson's Choice

Ada Figgins

Movie 1931

Broken Blossoms

Mrs. Lossy

Movie 1936

Discoveries

Kitchen Maid

Movie 1939

All for Mary

Nannie Cartwright

Movie 1955

The Terror

Parlour Maid

Movie 1938

The New Lot

Keith's Mother

Movie 1943

Dandy Dick

Jane (the Maid)

Movie 1935

The Pickwick Papers

Rachel Wardle

Movie 1952

I See a Dark Stranger

Waitress (uncredited)

Movie 1946

Wanted!

Belinda

Movie 1937

Caesar and Cleopatra

Egyptian Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1945

Great Day

Pub Customer

Movie 1945

Salvage with a Smile

Housekeeper

Movie 1940

A Call for Arms!

Mrs. James

Movie 1940

Lethal Weapon

Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie 1987

Waterloo Road

Movie 1945

The Day Begins Early

Movie

Inside the Room

Nurse

Movie 1935

Tv series unavailable from Kathleen Harrison

Mrs Thursday

Tv 1966

Martin Chuzzlewit

Tv 1964

NBC Experiment in Television

(voice)

Tv 1967

Danger UXB

Mrs. Dollery

Tv 1979