Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey ( born May 6, 1904 in London, † September 23, 1979 ibid ) was a British actress with character roles in theater, film and television. She played from the 1930s to the 1970s, numerous roles in British theater productions. Among disappears in films like A lady, Enjoy life, The Servant, Under the Spell of Dr. Monserrat or The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
Life and career
Catherine Lacey, born 1904 in London, drew it early as a character actress on stage. From the year 1925 onwards, she appeared in the prestigious British theaters. Her Broadway debut in 1931. In Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, she embodied the mid-1930s numerous roles and in the 1935 season, they had the attention at Stratford in several leading roles. From 1951 on she was a regular at the Old Vic Company in London.
Her film career began Catherine Lacey in the supporting role of the nun in Alfred Hitchcock's famous film classic The Lady Vanishes. The main roles Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. In the 1940s she played on screen character roles in films like I know where I'm going, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, in the thriller pharmacist Sutton directed by Robert Hamer or 1946 in the romance A heart lost in 1947 saw them in three different roles in the movies, in Roy Ward Baker's Mystery Thriller Jim Ackland on suspicion of murder, in Bernard Knowles symbol of happiness and Lawrence Huntington Drama struggle for Jimmy. In 1949 she occupied the director Alexander Mackendrick in his comedy thriller in the female lead role of Mrs. Waggett, where she played alongside fellow actor Basil Radford. In the 1950s, her appearances have been rare in the cinema. Among other things, she was seen in productions of directors Gavin Lambert, Gerald Thomas and Michael Relph. In 1957 she played Charles Crichton's dramatic thriller experimental machine CB 5 and 1958 Philip Leacock Drama in Small culprit.
At the beginning of the 1960s, she was seen alongside Orson Welles, Juliette Greco and Bradford Dillman in cinemas in Richard Fleischer's crime drama drama in the mirror. In Joseph Losey's The Servant of Drama from 1963 with Dirk Bogarde in the lead role she played the role of Lady Mounset. In 1967, she starred in the Hammer film production The Curse of the Mummy. In the same year, it undertook the director Michael Reeves for his horror film Under the Spell of Dr. Monserrat, where she played the female lead opposite Boris Karloff. In 1970, she ended her film career with a role in Billy Wilder's drama The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
In 1938, Catherine Lacey had also turned to television, where he played with increasing age often in eccentric roles. They were seen in episodes of successful series. Belonged to her appearances in the new medium BBC Sunday - Night Theatre (1950-1952), Somerset Maugham Hour ( 1960), Maigret (1962), The Rat Catchers ( 1967) and Play for Today (1973).
Catherine Lacey was married three times, with Geoffrey Clark, Roy Emerton and Anthony Wright. She died on 23 September 1979 at the age of 75 in her hometown of London.