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Kathleen Harrison | |
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Born | Blackburn, Lancashire, England | 23 February 1892
Died | 7 December 1995 | (aged 103)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1915–79 |
Spouse | John Henry Back (1916–61, his death) |
Children | 3 |
Kathleen Harrison (23 February 1892 – 7 December 1995) was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett (opposite Jack Warner and Petula Clark) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working-class family's misadventures, The Huggetts. She later played the charwoman Mrs. Dilber opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 film Scrooge (US: A Christmas Carol, 1951) and a Cockney charwoman who inherits a fortune in the television series Mrs Thursday (1966–67).