Catherine Lacey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 6, 1904
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Died
- September 23, 1979
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.
Movies with Catherine Lacey
- The Lady Vanishes 1938 · ★ 7.4
- The Servant 1963 · ★ 7.6
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 · ★ 6.8
- I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 · ★ 7.1
- Whisky Galore! 1949 · ★ 6.8
- The Sorcerers 1967 · ★ 6.2
- The Mummy's Shroud 1967 · ★ 5.4
- The Shadow of the Cat 1961 · ★ 6.7
- The October Man 1947 · ★ 6.2
- Cottage to Let 1941 · ★ 6.7
- Pink String and Sealing Wax 1945 · ★ 6.2
- The Man in the Sky 1957 · ★ 7.5
- Another Sky 1954 · ★ 4.8
- Rockets Galore 1958 · ★ 6.4
- Poison Pen 1939 · ★ 6.7
- Carnival 1946 · ★ 7.7
- The Solitary Child 1958 · ★ 6.0
- Innocent Sinners 1958 · ★ 7.5
- When The Bough Breaks 1947 · ★ 6.8
- Crack in the Mirror 1960 · ★ 7.5
- The White Unicorn 1947 · ★ 8.8
- Wine of India 1970 · ★ 10.0
- Marco Millions 1939 · ★ 8.0
- Castle of Crimes 1940 · ★ 9.0
- All's Well That Ends Well 1968 · ★ 10.0
- The Master Builder 1958
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont 1973
- Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I 1945