Acting · London, England, UK · Born May 6, 1904
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.
MovieMrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
1973
as Mrs. Arbuthnot
TVThe Intruder
1972
as Miss Hendry
TVThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Mrs Steinberg
MovieThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
as Woman in Wheelchair
Wine of India
1970
as Bee
TVThe Six Wives of Henry VIII
1970
as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
TVJourney to the Unknown
1968
as Miss Sarah Prinn
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
as Countess of Rousillon
MovieThe Sorcerers
1967
as Estelle Monserrat
MovieThe Mummy's Shroud
1967
as Haiti
The Wednesday Thriller
1965
as Miss Chafecote
TVGideon's Way
1965
as Sarah Fischer
TVThe Wednesday Play
1964
as Frau Mittermayer
TVTheatre 625
1964
MovieThe Servant
1963
as Lady Agatha Mounset
Festival
1963
as The Rat-Wife
TVEspionage
1963
as Mother
TVThe Human Jungle
1963
as Mrs. Box
MovieThe Shadow of the Cat
1961
as Ella Venable
Drama 61-67
1961
as Mrs. Mourtzinos
TVMaigret
1960
MovieCrack in the Mirror
1960
as Mother Superior
MovieThe Solitary Child
1958
as Mrs. Evans
MovieRockets Galore
1958
as Mrs Waggett
MovieInnocent Sinners
1958
as Angela Chesney
MovieThe Master Builder
1958
as Aline Solness
MovieThe Man in the Sky
1957
as Mary's mother
MovieAnother Sky
1954
as Selena Prouse
MovieWhisky Galore!
1949
as Mrs. Waggett
When The Bough Breaks
1947
as Almoner
MovieThe White Unicorn
1947
as Miss Cater
MovieThe October Man
1947
as Miss Selby
MovieCarnival
1946
as Florry Raeburn
MoviePink String and Sealing Wax
1945
as Miss Porter
MovieI Know Where I'm Going!
1945
as Mrs. Robinson
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
1945
as Gentlewoman
MovieCottage to Let
1941
as Mrs. Stokes
MovieCastle of Crimes
1940
as Francine Rollard
MoviePoison Pen
1939
as Connie Fateley
Marco Millions
1939
MovieThe Lady Vanishes
1938
as The Nun
