Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Kathleen Harrison was a warm-hearted
character actress usually cast in Cockney roles. A graduate of the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), she made her stage debut in
The Constant Flirt in 1926. Her first talkie was 1931's Hobson's Choice.
Her wide range of roles encompassed films such as The
Ghoul (1933), Night Must Fall (1937), The
Ghost Train (1941) and Major
Barbara (1941). She later added immeasurable Dickensian flavour
to such classics as David
Lean’s Oliver
Twist (1948), Scrooge
(1951) and The
Pickwick Papers (1952). In 1947, Harrison co-starred with Jack
Warner in Holiday
Camp; the actors played the heads of the Huggett family. This
led to a series of Huggett films; Here Come The Huggets (1948), Vote
for Huggett (1949) and The Huggetts Abroad (1949), that ran during
the late 1940s and featured the well-received duo of Warner and Harrison.
