Kathleen Harrison

Although British actress Kathleen Harrison was born in 1892 in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, she was fondly known for her cockney characters throughout her career. Trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she first married and lived overseas in Argentina for nearly eight years.

Gave 1898 as her birth year throughout her career, it was not until just before her 100th birthday that she publicly admitted her real age.

[1914-15] Trained in London at RADA, where she won the Du Maurier bronze medal.

Lived with her husband, who worked for the Western Telegraph Company, in Argentina and Madeira for eight years, only returning to Britain when he became unemployed in the mid-1920's. It was then that she made her stage début, playing Mrs Judd in "The Constant Flirt", at the Pier Theatre, Eastbourne, in 1926.

Upon her return she made her initial stage appearance in "The Constant Flirt" in 1926.

In the 30s she found her way onto the screen, taking many of her delightful theatre roles to film, including Line Engaged (1935), Night Must Fall (1937) (probably her most noteworthy), and Who Is Guilty? (1939).

She added immeasurable Dickensian flavor as various maids and mums to such classics as Oliver Twist (1948), A Christmas Carol (1951) and The Pickwick Papers (1952). She was also openly received as Mrs. Huggett in the "Huggett Family" series that ran a few years in the late 40s. In her five decade career, Kathleen 'toiled' as various servile characters in nearly 80 films.

She is the first actress to appear in the film Their Finest (2016) which was made 124 years after she born and 21 years after she died. They used archive footage.