Renée Houston
Acting
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
Legend of the Werewolf
Chou-Chou
Carry On at Your Convenience
Agatha Spanner
The Comic
Olive
River Rivals
Mrs. Fredericks
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Lady Blanchflower
Cul-de-sac
Christopher's Mother
The Idol
1st Woman at Party
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Repulsion
Mme Balch
Carry On Spying
Funhouse Madame
The Rescue Squad
Mrs. Manse
The Rescue Squad
Mrs Manse
Tomorrow at Ten
Masie Maddox
Carry On Cabby
Molly
Nurse on Wheels
Mrs. Beacon
Out of the Fog
Ma
The Phantom of the Opera
Mrs. Tucker
Twice Round the Daffodils
Matron
No, My Darling Daughter
Miss Yardley
Watch It, Sailor!
Mrs. Mottram
Three on a Spree
Mrs. Gray
The Flesh and the Fiends
Helen Burke
And the Same to You
Mildred Pomphret
The Horse's Mouth
Sara Monday
The Big Money
Bobbie
The Key
Canteen Worker (uncredited)
The Nice Americans
Mrs. Adams
Time Without Pity
Mrs. Harker
A Town Like Alice
Ebbey
Track the Man Down
Pat Sherwood
The Belles of St Trinian's
Miss Brimmer
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Beattie
Two Thousand Women
Maud Wright
The Peterville Diamond
Lady Margaret
Down Melody Lane
Self
Old Bill and Son
Stella Malloy
A Girl Must Live
Gloria Lind
Fine Feathers
Teenie McPherson
Happy Days Are Here Again
Kitty Seymour
No Monkey Business
Mister Cinders
Mrs. Phipps
Lost In The Legion
Mary McFee
Radio Parade
Their Night Out
Maggie Oliphant
Come Into My Parlour
Jenny MacDonald