Catherine Lacey
Acting
Born: 1904-05-06 in London, England, UK
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
Frau Mittermayer
The Wednesday Play
Bee
Maigret
Theatre 625
Gideon's Way
Sarah Fischer
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Mrs Steinberg
Espionage
Mother
Journey to the Unknown
Miss Sarah Prinn
The Human Jungle
Mrs. Box
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
The Servant
Lady Agatha Mounset
Marco Millions
The Lady Vanishes
The Nun
The Intruder
Miss Hendry
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Woman in Wheelchair
Whisky Galore!
Mrs. Waggett
I Know Where I'm Going!
Mrs. Robinson
Innocent Sinners
Angela Chesney
Poison Pen
Connie Fateley
Another Sky
Selena Prouse
The Shadow of the Cat
Ella Venable
The Mummy's Shroud
Haiti
The October Man
Miss Selby
Cottage to Let
Mrs. Stokes
Crack in the Mirror
Mother Superior
Rockets Galore
Mrs Waggett
Carnival
Florry Raeburn
The Man in the Sky
Mary's mother
The White Unicorn
Miss Cater
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Miss Porter
The Sorcerers
Estelle Monserrat
The Master Builder
Aline Solness
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
Gentlewoman