Catherine Lacey
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Servant
as Lady Agatha Mounset 1963
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Woman in Wheelchair 1970
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Mrs. Robinson 1945
Whisky Galore!
as Mrs. Waggett 1949
The Sorcerers
as Estelle Monserrat 1967
The Mummy's Shroud
as Haiti 1967
The Shadow of the Cat
as Ella Venable 1961
The October Man
as Miss Selby 1947
Cottage to Let
as Mrs. Stokes 1941
Pink String and Sealing Wax
as Miss Porter 1945
The Man in the Sky
as Mary's mother 1957
Another Sky
as Selena Prouse 1954
Rockets Galore
as Mrs Waggett 1958
Poison Pen
as Connie Fateley 1939
Carnival
as Florry Raeburn 1946
Innocent Sinners
as Angela Chesney 1958