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.
Filmography
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
1973
as Mrs. Arbuthnot
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
as Woman in Wheelchair
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Wine of India
1970
as Bee
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All's Well That Ends Well
1968
as Countess of Rousillon
The Sorcerers
1967
as Estelle Monserrat
The Mummy's Shroud
1967
as Haiti
The Servant
1963
as Lady Agatha Mounset
The Shadow of the Cat
1961
as Ella Venable
Crack in the Mirror
1960
as Mother Superior
The Solitary Child
1958
as Mrs. Evans
Rockets Galore
1958
as Mrs Waggett
Innocent Sinners
1958
as Angela Chesney
The Master Builder
1958
as Aline Solness
The Man in the Sky
1957
as Mary's mother
Another Sky
1954
as Selena Prouse
Whisky Galore!
1949
as Mrs. Waggett
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When The Bough Breaks
1947
as Almoner
The White Unicorn
1947
as Miss Cater
The October Man
1947
as Miss Selby
Carnival
1946
as Florry Raeburn
Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945
as Miss Porter
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
as Mrs. Robinson
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Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
1945
as Gentlewoman
Cottage to Let
1941
as Mrs. Stokes