Kathleen Harrison
Acting
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.
Born: February 22, 1892
Place of Birth: Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For
Danger UXB
Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.
The London Connection
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
I Thank You
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Great Day
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
The Happy Family
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
Gaslight
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
A Cry from the Streets
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Filmography
as Mrs. Huggett(archive footage)
as Elderly Lady
as Mrs. Dollery
as Henrietta Boffin
as Lady Clumsey
as (voice)
as Mrs. Ashworth
as Mrs. Beckett
as Mrs. Staggers
as Mrs Gibbons
as Mrs. Cooksley
as Rosie
as Mrs. Farrer
as Mrs Frith
as Mme. Abou
as Elsie Knowles
as Miss Gilly
as Nannie Cartwright
as Emmie
as Annie Yeo
as Kate
as Mrs. Fossett
as Granny Quilliam
as Rachel Wardle
as Lillian Lord
as Mother in Family Group
as Mrs. Dilber
as Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
as Mrs. McCabe
as Kate
as Isobel
as Mona's Mother
as Mrs. Brown
as Ethel Huggett
as Ethel Huggett
as Ethel Huggett
as Violet
as Mrs Sowerberry
as Ethel Brawn
as Mrs. Ethel Huggett
as Mrs. Catt
as Mabel Slater
as Waitress (uncredited)
as Florrie
as Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
as Pub Customer
as Mrs. Bardell
as Keith's Mother
as Amelia Peabody
as Mrs. Blake
as Ethel
as Kathleen
as Mrs. Price
as Miss Bourne
as Mrs. Schifan
as Bit Role
as Cook
as Mrs. Lightbody
as Housekeeper
as Penelope
as Mrs. Coates
as Mabel
as Parlour Maid
as May
as Belinda
as Emily Terence
as Annie
as Confused Voter
as Mrs. Lossy
as Nurse
as Jane (the Maid)
as Agnes Carter
as Kaney
as Martha
as Bit Role
as Ada Figgins