Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison was long a stalwart of British cinema. Her place was always firmly below stairs – a cook perhaps, or a cleaning lady often answering the door with a puzzled expression always fearful that trouble was just around the corner.
She was born in 1892 in Blackburn in Lancashire. She studied at RADA and then went to live in Agentina for some time. On her return to Britain, she made her stage debut in 1926 in “The Constant Flirt”. Her first major film role was in 1931 in “Hobson’s Choice”. Kathleen Harrison made one film in Hollywood in Emlyn Williams “Night Must Fall” in 1937 as a maid (naturally). She achieved national fame as Mrs Huggett in four films about the Huggett family. In the mid 1960′s she starred in a very popular television series Mrs Thursday about a cleaner who won the football pools. She died in 1995 at the age of 103.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.531 |
| Birthday | 1892-02-22 |
| Place of Birth | Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Кэтлин Харрисон, |
1936
Jury's Evidence
0/0
'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Jury's Evidence
1951
Scrooge
7.4/308
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
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Scrooge
1955
Cast a Dark Shadow
6.3/50
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When thi...
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Cast a Dark Shadow
1933
The Ghoul
5.4/53
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlan...
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The Ghoul
1941
The Ghost Train
5.9/32
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is s...
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The Ghost Train
1950
Double Confession
6.1/13
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsucc...
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Double Confession
1962
The Fast Lady
5.6/16
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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The Fast Lady
1938
Bank Holiday
5.8/13
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty conte...
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Bank Holiday
1938
Convict 99
6.8/11
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened crimi...
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Convict 99
1946
Wanted for Murder
6.2/29
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Wanted for Murder
1947
The Shop at Sly Corner
6.2/10
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Is...
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The Shop at Sly Corner
1937
Night Must Fall
7.064/39
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs....
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Night Must Fall
1948
The Winslow Boy
6.9/26
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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The Winslow Boy
1950
Waterfront
6.5/10
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...
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Waterfront
1953
Turn the Key Softly
6.2/13
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
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Turn the Key Softly
1941
Once a Crook
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Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Ra...
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Once a Crook
1950
Trio
6.3/12
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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Trio
1949
Now Barabbas
6.5/2
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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Now Barabbas
1958
The Big Money
6.4/5
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only...
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The Big Money
1961
On the Fiddle
6.4/4
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl...
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On the Fiddle
1957
Seven Thunders
5.2/9
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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Seven Thunders
1969
Lock Up Your Daughters
4.5/2
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
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Lock Up Your Daughters
1940
They Came by Night
5/2
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
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They Came by Night
1949
Landfall
7/4
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to...
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Landfall
1959
Alive and Kicking
6.9/6
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an imp...
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Alive and Kicking
1945
Meet Sexton Blake
5.5/1
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man kille...
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Meet Sexton Blake
1948
Bond Street
6.8/3
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending w...
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Bond Street
1944
It Happened One Sunday
0/0
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
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It Happened One Sunday
1948
Here Come the Huggetts
6.4/5
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix'...
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Here Come the Huggetts
1949
Vote for Huggett
6.6/5
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...
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Vote for Huggett
1949
The Huggetts Abroad
6.6/5
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family...
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The Huggetts Abroad
1947
Holiday Camp
6.1/9
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend...
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Holiday Camp
1954
Lilacs in the Spring
5.5/2
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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Lilacs in the Spring
1942
Much Too Shy
6.2/6
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold wit...
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Much Too Shy
1955
Where There's a Will
6.4/6
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face th...
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Where There's a Will
1952
The Happy Family
7.2/4
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the ped...
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The Happy Family
1956
It's a Wonderful World
5.3/3
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of t...
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It's a Wonderful World
1941
Letter from Home
0/0
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimps...
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Letter from Home
1947
Temptation Harbour
4.8/7
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself...
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Temptation Harbour
1933
The Man from Toronto
4/2
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelo...
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The Man from Toronto
1958
A Cry from the Streets
7.2/6
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose...
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A Cry from the Streets
1940
The Flying Squad
6/3
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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The Flying Squad
1939
A Girl Must Live
4.3/3
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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A Girl Must Live
1934
The Great Defender
4.8/5
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the cour...
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The Great Defender
1979
The London Connection
7.8/2
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of...
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The London Connection
1956
Home and Away
7/2
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partner...
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Home and Away
1940
Girl in the News
6.5/5
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...
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Girl in the News
1940
Gaslight
7.1/93
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...
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Gaslight
1936
The Tenth Man
6/1
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and fooli...
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The Tenth Man
1939
The Outsider
5/2
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
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The Outsider
1932
Aren't We All?
0/0
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt h...
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Aren't We All?
1949
Golden Arrow
0/0
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
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Golden Arrow
1953
The Dog and the Diamonds
5.5/2
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
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The Dog and the Diamonds
1937
Aren't Men Beasts!
0/0
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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Aren't Men Beasts!
1941
I Thank You
7.4/5
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded whe...
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I Thank You
1934
What Happened Then?
5/3
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he...
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What Happened Then?
1941
Major Barbara
6.605/19
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...
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Major Barbara
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box
1948
Oliver Twist
7.473/223
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
1931
Hobson's Choice
4/1
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
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Hobson's Choice
1936
Broken Blossoms
6/6
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
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Broken Blossoms
1939
Discoveries
0/0
Carroll Levis brings newly discovered talent to the screen.
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Discoveries
1963
West 11
6.7/10
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description...
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West 11
1955
All for Mary
6.2/4
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. Wh...
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All for Mary
1938
The Terror
5.7/6
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, hav...
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The Terror
1943
The New Lot
0/0
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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The New Lot
1935
Dandy Dick
5.8/3
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-r...
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Dandy Dick
1942
In Which We Serve
6.8/85
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only comman...
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In Which We Serve
1952
The Pickwick Papers
6.6/12
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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The Pickwick Papers
1946
I See a Dark Stranger
6.3/23
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...
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I See a Dark Stranger
1937
Wanted!
0/0
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves ar...
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Wanted!
1945
Caesar and Cleopatra
6.1/56
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Great Day
7.3/5
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Great Day
1940
Salvage with a Smile
0/0
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war...
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Salvage with a Smile
1940
A Call for Arms!
0/0
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchene...
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A Call for Arms!
1987
Lethal Weapon
7.291/4509
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a dea...
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Lethal Weapon
1945
Waterloo Road
6/16
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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Waterloo Road
The Day Begins Early
6/1
A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts".
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The Day Begins Early
1935
Inside the Room
5/1
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
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