Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey

Birth Date

5/6/1904 (Age 75)

Birth Place

London, England, UK

Death Date

9/23/1979

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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 Sci...

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Acting

Gender

Female

Total Credits

9

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Best Known For

The Nun

Lady Agatha Mounset

Mrs. Robinson

Estelle Monserrat

Miss Selby

Haiti

Frequent Collaborators

Michael Reeves

Michael Reeves

2 films together

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

1 film together

Tom Baker

1 film together

Michael Powell

Michael Powell

2 films together

Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger

2 films together

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