Kathleen Harrison was long a stalwart of British cinema Her place was always firmly below stairs a cook perhaps or a cleaning lady often answering the door with a puzzled expression always fearful that trouble was just around the corner She was born in 1892 in Blackburn in Lancashire She studied at RADA and then went to live in Agentina for some time On her return to Britain she made her stage debut in 1926 in The Constant Flirt Her first major film role was in 1931 in Hobsons Choice Kathleen Harrison made one film in Hollywood in Emlyn Williams Night Must Fall in 1937 as a maid naturally She achieved national fame as Mrs Huggett in four films about the Huggett family In the mid 1960s she starred in a very popular television series Mrs Thursday about a cleaner who won the football pools She died in 1995 at the age of 103
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