Katie Johnson
Biography
Katie Johnson (18 November 1878 in Clayton, Sussex, England - 4 May 1957, Elham, Kent), born Bessie Kate Johnson, was an English actress who appeared on stage from the 1890s and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1908 she was married to the actor Frank Goodenough Bayley who predeceased her. She first appeared in a film at age 55, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 77, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce. The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress. She died less than two years afterwards having only appeared in a single further film. She also appeared in the BBC science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and played a spy in I See a Dark Stranger (1946).
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Filmography
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
1957
as Alice
The Ladykillers
1955
as Mrs. Wilberforce
John and Julie
1955
as Old Lady
The Delavine Affair
1955
as Mrs. Bissett
The Large Rope
1953
as Grandmother
Three Steps In The Dark
1953
as Mrs Riddle
- No poster
The Passionate Pilgrim
1953
as Aunt Eugenie
Lady in the Fog
1952
as Mad Mary - Old Inmate at Murder Scene
I Believe in You
1952
as Miss Macklin
Death of an Angel
1952
as Sarah Oddy
The Shop at Sly Corner
1947
as Woman in Shop
The Years Between
1946
as Old Man's Wife
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
as Old Lady on Train
Tawny Pipit
1944
as Miss Pyman
Talk About Jacqueline
1942
as Ethel the Housekeeper
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
as Train Passenger
Freedom Radio
1941
as Granny Schmidt
Gaslight
1940
as Alice Barlow's Maid
Marigold
1938
as Miss Sarita Dunlop
- No poster
The Dark Stairway
1938
Farewell Again
1937
as Mother of soldier in hospital
Dusty Ermine
1936
as Emily Kent
Laburnum Grove
1936
as Mrs. Radfern
- No poster
A Glimpse of Paradise
1935
as Mrs Fielding