
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.

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965

Danger UXB
TV • 1979

Our Mutual Friend
TV • 1976

NBC Experiment in Television
TV • 1967

Oliver Twist
MOVIE • 1948

Scrooge
MOVIE • 1951

Martin Chuzzlewit
TV • 1964

Girl in the News
MOVIE • 1940

In Which We Serve
MOVIE • 1942

It's a Wonderful World
MOVIE • 1956

On the Fiddle
MOVIE • 1961

Mrs Thursday
TV • 1966

Caesar and Cleopatra
MOVIE • 1945

They Came by Night
MOVIE • 1940

Trio
MOVIE • 1950

Alive and Kicking
MOVIE • 1959

The Magic Box
MOVIE • 1952

Aren't We All?
MOVIE • 1932