Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

1904-05-06 – 1979-09-23 (age 75) London, England, UK
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Biography

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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.

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Known For

The Servant
The Servant

1963

as Lady Agatha Mounset

The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes

1938

as The Nun

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970

as Woman in Wheelchair

Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore!

1949

as Mrs. Waggett

The Shadow of the Cat
The Shadow of the Cat

1961

as Ella Venable

I Know Where I'm Going!
I Know Where I'm Going!

1945

as Mrs. Robinson

The Mummy's Shroud
The Mummy's Shroud

1967

as Haiti

The Sorcerers
The Sorcerers

1967

as Estelle Monserrat

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Wine of India

1970

as Bee

Carnival
Carnival

1946

as Florry Raeburn

Cottage to Let
Cottage to Let

1941

as Mrs. Stokes

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When The Bough Breaks

1947

as Almoner

Poison Pen
Poison Pen

1939

as Connie Fateley

Rockets Galore
Rockets Galore

1958

as Mrs Waggett

The Man in the Sky
The Man in the Sky

1957

as Mary's mother

Innocent Sinners
Innocent Sinners

1958

as Angela Chesney

The October Man
The October Man

1947

as Miss Selby

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All's Well That Ends Well

1968

as Countess of Rousillon

Pink String and Sealing Wax
Pink String and Sealing Wax

1945

as Miss Porter