About

Known credits:
27
Birthday:
1904-05-06
Place of birth:
London, England, UK
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Catherine Lacey

Overview

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

Acting
1973 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Actor Mrs. Arbuthnot N/A
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1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Actor Woman in Wheelchair 62
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1970 Wine of India Actor Bee N/A
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1968 All's Well That Ends Well Actor Countess of Rousillon N/A
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1967 The Sorcerers Actor Estelle Monserrat 59
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1967 The Mummy's Shroud Actor Haiti 58
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1963 The Servant Actor Lady Mounset 65
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1961 The Shadow of the Cat Actor Ella Venable 59
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1960 Crack in the Mirror Actor Mother Superior 59
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1958 The Solitary Child Actor Mrs. Evans 59
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1958 Rockets Galore Actor Mrs Waggett 59
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1958 Innocent Sinners Actor Angela Chesney 59
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1958 The Master Builder Actor Mrs. Solness N/A
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1957 The Man in the Sky Actor Mary's mother 59
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1954 Another Sky Actor Selena Prouse 59
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1949 Whisky Galore! Actor Mrs. Waggett 60
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1947 When The Bough Breaks Actor Almoner 59
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1947 The White Unicorn Actor Miss Cater 59
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1947 The October Man Actor Miss Selby 59
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1946 Carnival Actor Florry Raeburn 59
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1945 Pink String and Sealing Wax Actor Miss Porter 59
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1945 I Know Where I'm Going! Actor Mrs. Robinson 61
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1941 Cottage to Let Actor Mrs. Stokes 59
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1940 Castle of Crimes Actor Francine Rollard N/A
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1939 Poison Pen Actor Connie Fateley 59
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1939 Marco Millions Actor N/A
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1938 The Lady Vanishes Actor The Nun 68
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