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

The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play

Theatre 625

Maigret

Gideon's Way

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Espionage

The Human Jungle

All Movies (28)

• Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont1973 · as Mrs. Arbuthnot
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes1970 · as Woman in Wheelchair
• Wine of India1970 · as Bee
• All's Well That Ends Well1968 · as Countess of Rousillon
• The Sorcerers1967 · as Estelle Monserrat
• The Mummy's Shroud1967 · as Haiti
• The Servant1963 · as Lady Agatha Mounset
• The Shadow of the Cat1961 · as Ella Venable
• Crack in the Mirror1960 · as Mother Superior
• The Solitary Child1958 · as Mrs. Evans
• Rockets Galore1958 · as Mrs Waggett
• Innocent Sinners1958 · as Angela Chesney
• The Master Builder1958 · as Aline Solness
• The Man in the Sky1957 · as Mary's mother
• Another Sky1954 · as Selena Prouse
• Whisky Galore!1949 · as Mrs. Waggett
• When The Bough Breaks1947 · as Almoner
• The White Unicorn1947 · as Miss Cater
• The October Man1947 · as Miss Selby
• Carnival1946 · as Florry Raeburn
• Pink String and Sealing Wax1945 · as Miss Porter
• I Know Where I'm Going!1945 · as Mrs. Robinson
• Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I1945 · as Gentlewoman
• Cottage to Let1941 · as Mrs. Stokes
• Castle of Crimes1940 · as Francine Rollard
• Poison Pen1939 · as Connie Fateley
• Marco Millions1939
• The Lady Vanishes1938 · as The Nun

All TV Shows (14)

• The Intruder1972 · as Miss Hendry
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971 · as Mrs Steinberg
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII1970 · as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
• Journey to the Unknown1968 · as Miss Sarah Prinn
• The Wednesday Thriller1965 · as Miss Chafecote
• Gideon's Way1965 · as Sarah Fischer
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Frau Mittermayer
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Bee
• Theatre 6251964
• Festival1963 · as The Rat-Wife
• Espionage1963 · as Mother
• The Human Jungle1963 · as Mrs. Box
• Drama 61-671961 · as Mrs. Mourtzinos
• Maigret1960