Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey (6 May 1904 – 23 September 1979) was an English actress of stage and screen.

Stage Lacey made her stage debut, performing with Mrs Patrick Campbell, in The Thirteenth Chair at the West Pier Brighton on 13 April 1925. Her first appearance in the West End was in July 1926 in Cock o' the Roost at the Garrick Theatre.

Her other West End credits included The Beetle (Strand Theatre 1928), The Venetian (Little Theatre 1931; her Broadway debut, at the Masque Theatre, followed in the same play the same year), The Green Bay Tree (St Martin's Theatre 1933), After the Dance (St James' Theatre 1939), She Follows Me About (Garrick Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1949), Tiger at the Gates (Apollo Theatre 1955; she appeared at the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway in the same play later the same year), The Tiger and the Horse (Queen's Theatre 1960) and I Never Sang for My Father (Duke of York's Theatre 1970). and 1962 (Aase in Peer Gynt, Emilia in Othello), and to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, playing Volumnia in Coriolanus and the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well.

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 installment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont.

Personal life She was married to the British actors Roy Emerton and Geoffrey Clark.

Partial filmography The Lady Vanishes (1938) – The Nun Poison Pen (1939) – Connie Fateley The House of the Arrow (1940) – Francine Rollard Cottage to Let (1941) – Mrs. Stokes I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) – Mrs. Robinson Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) – Miss Porter Carnival (1946) – Florrie Raeburn The October Man (1947) – Miss Selby The White Unicorn (1947) – Miss Cater When the Bough Breaks (1947) – Almoner Whisky Galore! (1949) – Mrs. Waggett Another Sky (1954) – Selena Prouse The Man in the Sky (1957) – Mary's Mother Innocent Sinners (1958) – Angela Chesney The Solitary Child (1958) – Mrs. Evans Rockets Galore! (1958) – Mrs. Waggett Crack in the Mirror (1960) – Mother Superior The Shadow of the Cat (1961) – Ella Venable The Servant (1963) – Lady Mounset The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) – (uncredited) The Mummy's Shroud (1967) – Haiti The Sorcerers (1967) – Estelle / Estelle Monserrat Journey to Midnight (1968) – Miss Sarah Prinn (episode 'The Indian Spirit Guide') The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) – Woman in Wheelchair