Catherine Lacey
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.689 |
Birthday | 1904-05-06 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
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1961
The Shadow of the Cat
6.6/29
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The...
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The Shadow of the Cat
1963
The Servant
7.6/325
Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike t...
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The Servant
1949
Whisky Galore!
6.8/128
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, hea...
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Whisky Galore!
1970
Wine of India
0/0
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government cont...
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Wine of India
1967
The Mummy's Shroud
5.5/50
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they un...
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The Mummy's Shroud
1967
The Sorcerers
6.1/61
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his...
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The Sorcerers
1945
I Know Where I'm Going!
7/137
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclemen...
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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
Pink String and Sealing Wax
6/15
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkar...
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
1958
Rockets Galore
6/6
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
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Rockets Galore
1958
Innocent Sinners
7/2
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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Innocent Sinners
1947
When The Bough Breaks
6/2
The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
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When The Bough Breaks
1947
The White Unicorn
7.5/1
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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The White Unicorn
1946
Carnival
7.6/5
A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the brig...
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Carnival
1939
Marco Millions
0/0
Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
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Marco Millions
1954
Another Sky
4.8/6
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
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Another Sky
1960
Crack in the Mirror
7.5/2
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is...
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Crack in the Mirror
1939
Poison Pen
6.4/5
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Poison Pen
1958
The Master Builder
0/0
Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife...
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The Master Builder
1940
Castle of Crimes
0/0
A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..
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Castle of Crimes
1947
The October Man
6.2/23
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found...
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The October Man
1958
The Solitary Child
5/2
A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
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The Solitary Child
1968
All's Well That Ends Well
0/0
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...
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All's Well That Ends Well
1957
The Man in the Sky
7.2/7
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. A...
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The Man in the Sky
1938
The Lady Vanishes
7.445/907
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befrien...
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The Lady Vanishes
1941
Cottage to Let
6.5/18
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfe...
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Cottage to Let
1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
6.8/275
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing...
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1973
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
0/0
Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.
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