Kathleen Harrison
Birthday: 1892-02-22
Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography: 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.
Movies
Jury's Evidence
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder c...
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Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is v...
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Cast a Dark Shadow
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older w...
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The Ghoul
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in th...
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The Ghost Train
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of l...
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Double Confession
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes i...
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The Fast Lady
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father...
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Bank Holiday
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the s...
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Convict 99
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the ...
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Wanted for Murder
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist th...
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The Shop at Sly Corner
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, has become disillusioned with society since his t...
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Night Must Fall
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fianc...
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The Winslow Boy
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...
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Waterfront
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, w...
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Turn the Key Softly
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail....
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Once a Crook
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Syd...
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Now Barabbas
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer....
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The Big Money
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been ...
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On the Fiddle
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chanc...
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They Came by Night
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist....
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Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a Britis...
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Alive and Kicking
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escap...
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Meet Sexton Blake
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some ...
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Bond Street
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Li...
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It Happened One Sunday
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor w...
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Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land,...
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The Huggetts Abroad
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to S...
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Here Come the Huggetts
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Ro...
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Holiday Camp
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the...
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Lilacs in the Spring
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to...
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Much Too Shy
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders port...
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Where There's a Will
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London ...
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The Happy Family
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, ...
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It's a Wonderful World
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusi...
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Letter from Home
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, tel...
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Temptation Harbour
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa...
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The Man from Toronto
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English wi...
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A Cry from the Streets
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a...
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The Flying Squad
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organi...
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A Girl Must Live
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility....
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The Great Defender
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly fail...
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The London Connection
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air ch...
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Home and Away
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it t...
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Gaslight
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul an...
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Girl in the News
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse i...
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The Tenth Man
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. ...
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The Outsider
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with...
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Aren't We All?
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conductin...
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Golden Arrow
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and in...
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The Dog and the Diamonds
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the...
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Aren't Men Beasts!
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 ye...
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I Thank You
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-...
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What Happened Then?
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted an...
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Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels ...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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Hobson's Choice
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler....
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Broken Blossoms
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of ...
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West 11
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young u...
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All for Mary
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set...
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The Terror
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstw...
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The New Lot
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is sh...
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Dandy Dick
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, wi...
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In Which We Serve
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...
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The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report b...
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I See a Dark Stranger
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...
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Wanted!
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on th...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra....
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Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with...
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Salvage with a Smile
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importanc...
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A Call for Arms!
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in t...
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Waterloo Road
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft...
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The Day Begins Early
A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts"....
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Inside the Room
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a...
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Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Two convicts escape from prison, complicating life for their widowed mother when they return home to...
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Blondes: Diana Dors
Celebrating the life and career of legendary British blonde bombshell Diana Dors, who died in 1984. ...
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