Catherine Lacey
Nascimento : 1904-05-06, London, England, UK
Morte : 1979-09-23
História
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.
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.
Woman in Wheelchair
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.
Countess of Rousillon
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
Estelle Monserrat
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Roscoe, and enjoy 'being' the younger man. But Estelle soon grows to love the power of controlling Roscoe, and the vicarious pleasures that provides. How far will she go, and can the Professor restrain her in time?
Haiti
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
Lady Mounset
Neste drama histórico de luta de classe e decadência moral, um mulherengo mimado compra uma casa elegante na cidade e contrata um criado dedicado. Passam a surgir problemas quando a namorada do jovem começa a suspeitar do criado.
Ella Venable
Após presenciar a morte de sua estimada dona, um gato inofensivo se transforma em um vingativo assassino em busca dos culpados pelo desaparecimento de sua dona.
Mother Superior
A Story of two love triangles...
Mrs. Evans
A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
Mrs Waggett
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Angela Chesney
A neglected girl (June Archer) in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Mrs. Solness
Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.
Mary's mother
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Selena Prouse
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Mrs. Waggett
Baseado numa história real, o filme conta a história do naufrágio de um navio carregado com 250 mil garrafas de uísque na costa da Escócia. Os habitantes da região recolheram o máximo de garrafas que conseguiram antes da chegada das autoridades.
Almoner
The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.
Miss Cater
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
Miss Selby
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Florry Raeburn
Story of a ballet dancer of the Edwardian era. From the novel by Compton Mackenzie.
Miss Porter
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
Mrs. Robinson
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Mrs. Stokes
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Francine Rollard
A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..
Connie Fateley
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
The Nun
Em um pequeno recanto da Europa os passageiros de um trem ficam retidos em virtude de uma nevasca e são obrigados a pernoitar em uma pequena estalagem. Lá uma rica jovem conhece uma velha governanta e ambas combinam de se encontrarem no dia seguinte no trem. Entretanto, logo após o início da viagem a governanta desaparece e ninguém, por motivos diversos, afirma ter visto a pessoa desaparecida. Ela persiste em suas investigações e acaba convencendo um musicólogo, com quem ela tinha se desentendido na véspera.
