Catherine Lacey

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Catherine Lacey
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Born(1904-05-06)6 May 1904
London, England
Died23 September 1979(1979-09-23) (aged 75)
London, England
OccupationActress
Years active1938–1973
Spouse(s)Roy Emerton
Geoffrey Clark

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.[1]

Her other West End credits included The Beetle (Strand Theatre 1928),

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).[1]

Having acted at Stratford and the Old Vic in 1935/36, she returned to both companies in later years: to the Old Vic in 1951 (Clytemnestra in

Electra)[2] and 1962 (Aase in Peer Gynt, Emilia in Othello),[3] and to the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, playing Volumnia in Coriolanus and the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well.[1]

Screen

She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in

The Sorcerers. For the latter, she won a 'Silver Asteroid' award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968.[4]

Eight years earlier, she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year.[1] 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 and divorced from the British actors Roy Emerton and Geoffrey Clark.[1]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e John Parker (ed), Who's Who in the Theatre 15th edition, Pitman Publishing 1972
  2. ^ TC Worsley, The Fugitive Art: Dramatic Commentaries 1947–1951, John Lehmann Ltd 1952
  3. ^ Frances Stephens, Theatre World Annual 1964, Iliffe Books 1963
  4. ^ Jonathan Rigby, 'British Horror Classics – The Sorcerers', Hammer Horror no 4, June 1995

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