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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 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.

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Mrs. Arbuthnot

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

1973

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Mrs Steinberg

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971

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Woman in Wheelchair

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970

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Bee

Wine of India

1970

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Dowager Duchess of Norfolk

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

1970

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Journey to the Unknown

1968

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Countess of Rousillon

All's Well That Ends Well

1968

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Estelle Monserrat

The Sorcerers

1967

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Haiti

The Mummy's Shroud

1967

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Sarah Fischer

Gideon's Way

1965

Credits

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

as Mrs. Arbuthnot

1973

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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Mrs Steinberg

1971

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

as Woman in Wheelchair

1970

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Wine of India

as Bee

1970

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII

as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk

1970

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Journey to the Unknown

1968

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All's Well That Ends Well

as Countess of Rousillon

1968

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The Sorcerers

as Estelle Monserrat

1967

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The Mummy's Shroud

as Haiti

1967

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Gideon's Way

as Sarah Fischer

1965

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The Servant

as Lady Agatha Mounset

1963

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The Human Jungle

as Mrs. Box

1963

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The Shadow of the Cat

as Ella Venable

1961

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Maigret

1960

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Crack in the Mirror

as Mother Superior

1960

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The Solitary Child

as Mrs. Evans

1958

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Rockets Galore

as Mrs Waggett

1958

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Innocent Sinners

as Angela Chesney

1958

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The Master Builder

as Mrs. Solness

1958

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The Man in the Sky

as Mary's mother

1957

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Another Sky

as Selena Prouse

1954

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Whisky Galore!

as Mrs. Waggett

1949

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When The Bough Breaks

as Almoner

1947

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The White Unicorn

as Miss Cater

1947

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The October Man

as Miss Selby

1947

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Carnival

as Florry Raeburn

1946

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Pink String and Sealing Wax

as Miss Porter

1945

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I Know Where I'm Going!

as Mrs. Robinson

1945

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Cottage to Let

as Mrs. Stokes

1941

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Castle of Crimes

as Francine Rollard

1940

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Poison Pen

as Connie Fateley

1939

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Marco Millions

1939

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The Lady Vanishes

as The Nun

1938

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