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.
Movies & TV Shows
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The Lady Vanishes (1938) — The Nun
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The Servant (1963) — Lady Agatha Mounset
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) — Woman in Wheelchair
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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) — Mrs. Robinson
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Whisky Galore! (1949) — Mrs. Waggett
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The Sorcerers (1967) — Estelle Monserrat
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The Mummy's Shroud (1967) — Haiti
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The Shadow of the Cat (1961) — Ella Venable
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The October Man (1947) — Miss Selby
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Cottage to Let (1941) — Mrs. Stokes
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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) — Miss Porter
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Maigret (1960)
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) — Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
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The Man in the Sky (1957) — Mary's mother
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) — Mrs Steinberg
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Another Sky (1954) — Selena Prouse
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Rockets Galore (1958) — Mrs Waggett
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Poison Pen (1939) — Connie Fateley
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Carnival (1946) — Florry Raeburn
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The Solitary Child (1958) — Mrs. Evans
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Gideon's Way (1965) — Sarah Fischer
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The Human Jungle (1963) — Mrs. Box
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Theatre 625 (1964)
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The Wednesday Play (1964) — Frau Mittermayer
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Innocent Sinners (1958) — Angela Chesney
- When The Bough Breaks (1947) — Almoner
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Crack in the Mirror (1960) — Mother Superior
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Journey to the Unknown (1968) — Miss Sarah Prinn
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The White Unicorn (1947) — Miss Cater
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The Intruder (1972) — Miss Hendry
- Wine of India (1970) — Bee
- Marco Millions (1939)
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Castle of Crimes (1940) — Francine Rollard
- All's Well That Ends Well (1968) — Countess of Rousillon
- Festival (1963) — The Rat-Wife
- The Wednesday Thriller (1965) — Miss Chafecote
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Espionage (1963) — Mother
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The Master Builder (1958) — Aline Solness
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1973) — Mrs. Arbuthnot
- Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I (1945) — Gentlewoman