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Catherine Lacey
Actor· London, England, UK
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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.
Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
17 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Woman in Wheelchair | Film |
| 1967 | The Sorcerers | Estelle Monserrat | Film |
| 1967 | The Mummy's Shroud | Haiti | Film |
| 1963 | The Servant | Lady Agatha Mounset | Film |
| 1961 | The Shadow of the Cat | Ella Venable | Film |
| 1958 | Innocent Sinners | Angela Chesney | Film |
| 1958 | Rockets Galore | Mrs Waggett | Film |
| 1958 | The Master Builder | Aline Solness | Film |
| 1957 | The Man in the Sky | Mary's mother | Film |
| 1949 | Whisky Galore! | Mrs. Waggett | Film |
| 1947 | The October Man | Miss Selby | Film |
| 1947 | When The Bough Breaks | Almoner | Film |
| 1946 | Carnival | Florry Raeburn | Film |
| 1945 | I Know Where I'm Going! | Mrs. Robinson | Film |
| 1945 | Pink String and Sealing Wax | Miss Porter | Film |
| 1941 | Cottage to Let | Mrs. Stokes | Film |
| 1938 | The Lady Vanishes | The Nun | Film |
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