From Wikipedia Catherine Lacey 6 May 1904 23 September 1979 was an English actress of stage and screen She made her film debut in 1938 as the secretive nun who wears high heels in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes but was credited as Catherine Lacy She was subsequently cast in major films like I Know Where Im Going 1945 The October Man 1947 Whisky Galore 1949 The Servant 1963 and The Fighting Prince of Donegal 1966 in which she played Queen Elizabeth I In 196667 she played in two notable horror films as a malevolent fortuneteller in The Mummys Shroud and as Boris Karloffs insane wife in Michael Reeves The Sorcerers For the latter she won a Silver Asteroid award as Best Actress at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival in 1968 Eight years earlier she received the Guild of TV Producers and Directors award as Actress of the Year 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 instalment Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
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