13 Facts About Kathleen Harrison

Kathleen Harrison was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs Huggett in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working-class family's misadventures, The Huggetts.

Kathleen Harrison later played the charwoman Mrs Dilber opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 film Scrooge and a Cockney charwoman who inherits a fortune in the television series Mrs Thursday.

Kathleen Harrison was educated at Clapham High School before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Kathleen Harrison spent some years living in Argentina and Madeira before making her professional acting debut in the UK in the 1920s.

Kathleen Harrison made her stage debut as Mrs Judd in The Constant Flirt at the Pier Theatre, Eastbourne in 1926.

Kathleen Harrison had already made her film debut with a minor role in Our Boys, when she appeared in the film Hobson's Choice.

Kathleen Harrison played Kaney in The Ghoul and the matriarch in Mrs Gibbons' Boys, as well as two BBC productions of Charles Dickens's novels, Martin Chuzzlewit and Our Mutual Friend.

Kathleen Harrison later commented that Dickens was her favourite author.

Kathleen Harrison turned down the title role in writer Jeremy Sandford's Play for Today Edna, the Inebriate Woman.

Kathleen Harrison starred with Warner in the film Home and Away, about a working-class family that wins the football pools.

Kathleen Harrison married John Henry Back in 1916; the couple had three children, two sons, and a daughter.

Kathleen Harrison always pretended to be six years younger than her age, but in 1992 she owned up to reaching 100 and received her telegram from the Queen.

Kathleen Harrison was predeceased by her husband, John, and a son.