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Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

Birthday: 1904-05-06 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1973
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

as    Mrs. Arbuthnot

1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

as    Woman in Wheelchair

1967
The Sorcerers

as    Estelle Monserrat

1967
The Mummy's Shroud

as    Haiti

1963
The Servant

as    Lady Mounset

1961
The Shadow of the Cat

as    Ella Venable

1960
Crack in the Mirror

as    Mother Superior

1958
The Solitary Child

as    Mrs. Evans

1949
Whisky Galore!

as    Mrs. Waggett

1947
The October Man

as    Miss Selby

1947
I Know Where I'm Going!

as    Mrs. Robinson

1946
Carnival

as    Florry Raeburn

1945
Pink String and Sealing Wax

as    Miss Porter

1944
Castle of Crimes

as    Francine Rollard