Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 5/6/1904
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Died
- 9/23/1979 (aged 75)
- Gender
- Female
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.
12 titles

The Lady Vanishes
1938
The Nun

The Servant
1963
Lady Agatha Mounset

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
Woman in Wheelchair

I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
Mrs. Robinson

Whisky Galore!
1949
Mrs. Waggett

The Sorcerers
1967
Estelle Monserrat

The Mummy's Shroud
1967
Haiti

The Shadow of the Cat
1961
Ella Venable

The October Man
1947
Miss Selby

Cottage to Let
1941
Mrs. Stokes

Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945
Miss Porter

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1970TV
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk


