Catherine Lacey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1904-05-06
Day of Death
1979-09-23 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Catherine Lacey
Biography
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
as Mrs. Arbuthnot
(1970)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Woman in Wheelchair
(1970)
Wine of India
as Bee
(1968)
All's Well That Ends Well
as Countess of Rousillon
(1967)
The Mummy's Shroud
as Haiti
(1967)
The Sorcerers
as Estelle Monserrat
(1963)
The Servant
as Lady Agatha 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
(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)
The October Man
as Miss Selby
(1947)
When The Bough Breaks
as Almoner
(1947)
The White Unicorn
as Miss Cater
(1946)
Carnival
as Florry Raeburn
(1945)
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Mrs. Robinson
(1945)
Pink String and Sealing Wax
as Miss Porter
(1941)
Cottage to Let
as Mrs. Stokes
(1940)
Castle of Crimes
as Francine Rollard
(1939)
Poison Pen
as Connie Fateley
(1939)
(1938)
The Lady Vanishes
as The Nun