Acting
Catherine Lacey
EN cinema · 28 credits
Born
6 May 1904
Died
23 September 1979 (aged 75)
Birthplace
London, England, UK
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
Filmography
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
as Mrs. Arbuthnot
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Woman in Wheelchair
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
All's Well That Ends Well
as Countess of Rousillon
The Mummy's Shroud
as Haiti
The Sorcerers
as Estelle Monserrat
The Servant
as Lady Agatha Mounset
The Shadow of the Cat
as Ella Venable
Crack in the Mirror
as Mother Superior
Rockets Galore
as Mrs Waggett
Innocent Sinners
as Angela Chesney
The Master Builder
as Aline Solness
The Solitary Child
as Mrs. Evans
The Man in the Sky
as Mary's mother
Another Sky
as Selena Prouse
Whisky Galore!
as Mrs. Waggett
The White Unicorn
as Miss Cater
The October Man
as Miss Selby
Carnival
as Florry Raeburn
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Mrs. Robinson
Pink String and Sealing Wax
as Miss Porter
Cottage to Let
as Mrs. Stokes
Castle of Crimes
as Francine Rollard
Poison Pen
as Connie Fateley
The Lady Vanishes
as The Nun