Cast
Renée Houston
Acting
Cast
Renée Houston
Known for
Acting
Born
1902-07-24
From
Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Died
1980-02-09
Also known as Renee Houston, Katherina Rita Murphy Gribbin
Biography
Renée Houston (24 July 1902 - 9 February 1980) was a Scottish comedy actress and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles. Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gribbin she toured music halls and revues with her sister Billie Houston as the "Houston Sisters". In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film, the script of which Renée had written. It was produced by Lee De Forest, whose process, Phonofilm, enabled a soundtrack to be played alongside the film (a year before The Jazz Singer). Houston married three times, the second was to the actor Pat Aherne, the brother of Brian Aherne. Her third husband was the actor Donald Stewart. In her later years, she specialised in "battleaxe" roles, notably as shop steward Vic Spanner's (Kenneth Cope) formidable mother in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971). She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled Don't Fence Me In. Houston was also in the early episodes of radio's The Clitheroe Kid and a regular guest on radio panel show The Petticoat Line chaired by Anona Winn. She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
★7.4
MOVIE1965
Repulsion
as Mme Balch
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Time Without Pity
as Mrs. Harker
★6.7
MOVIE1966
Cul-de-sac
as Christopher's Mother
★6.4
MOVIE1962
The Phantom of the Opera
as Mrs. Tucker
★9.0
MOVIE1933
Radio Parade
★6.6
MOVIE1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
as Helen Burke
★5.9
MOVIE1951
Lady Godiva Rides Again
as Beattie
MOVIE1969
The Comic
as Olive
★6.1
MOVIE1958
The Key
as Canteen Worker (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1956
A Town Like Alice
as Ebbey
★6.8
MOVIE1958
The Horse's Mouth
as Sara Monday
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Watch It, Sailor!
as Mrs. Mottram
★6.4
MOVIE1954
The Belles of St Trinian's
as Miss Brimmer
★6.2
MOVIE1971
Carry On at Your Convenience
as Agatha Spanner
★6.4
MOVIE1964
Carry On Spying
as Funhouse Madame
★6.1
MOVIE1963
Nurse on Wheels
as Mrs. Beacon
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Twice Round the Daffodils
as Matron
★5.4
MOVIE1975
Legend of the Werewolf
as Chou-Chou
★6.4
MOVIE1963
Carry On Cabby
as Molly
★5.9
MOVIE1960
And the Same to You
as Mildred Pomphret
★6.0
MOVIE1963
The Rescue Squad
as Mrs Manse
★6.0
MOVIE1963
The Rescue Squad
as Mrs. Manse
★6.0
MOVIE1963
Tomorrow at Ten
as Masie Maddox
★4.9
MOVIE1966
The Idol
as 1st Woman at Party
★9.0
MOVIE1932
Come Into My Parlour
as Jenny MacDonald
★7.3
MOVIE1961
No, My Darling Daughter
as Miss Yardley
★6.9
MOVIE1944
Two Thousand Women
as Maud Wright
★4.0
MOVIE1966
The Spy with a Cold Nose
as Lady Blanchflower
★4.8
MOVIE1939
A Girl Must Live
as Gloria Lind
★6.4
MOVIE1961
Three on a Spree
as Mrs. Gray
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Big Money
as Bobbie
★6.1
MOVIE1955
Track the Man Down
as Pat Sherwood
★10.0
MOVIE1934
Lost In The Legion
as Mary McFee
★5.8
MOVIE1943
The Peterville Diamond
as Lady Margaret
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Out of the Fog
as Ma
★6.6
MOVIE1941
Old Bill and Son
as Stella Malloy
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Fine Feathers
as Teenie McPherson
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Their Night Out
as Maggie Oliphant
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Mister Cinders
as Mrs. Phipps
★3.6
MOVIE1966
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
MOVIE1943
Down Melody Lane
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1967
River Rivals
as Mrs. Fredericks
★10.0
MOVIE1958
The Nice Americans
as Mrs. Adams
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Happy Days Are Here Again
as Kitty Seymour
★7.0
MOVIE1935