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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
all 34
Movies 27
TV Shows 7
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1973)
The Intruder (1972)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
All's Well That Ends Well (1968)
The Sorcerers (1967)
Gideon's Way (1965)
The Servant (1963)
The Human Jungle (1963)
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
The Solitary Child (1958)
Rockets Galore (1958)
Innocent Sinners (1958)
The Master Builder (1958)
The Man in the Sky (1957)
Another Sky (1954)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
The White Unicorn (1947)
The October Man (1947)
Carnival (1946)
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Cottage to Let (1941)
Castle of Crimes (1940)
Poison Pen (1939)
Marco Millions (1939)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1904-05-06
Deathday1979-09-20 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, England, UK
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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