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Katie Johnson

1878 - 1957 (age 78) • Acting

Katie Johnson (18 November 1878 in Clayton, Sussex, England - 4 May 1957, Elham, Kent), born Bessie Kate Johnson, was an English actress who appeared on stage from the 1890s and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1908 she was married to the actor Frank Goodenough Bayley who predeceased her. She first appeared in a film at age 55, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 77, in the Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers as Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce. The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress. She died less than two years afterwards having only appeared in a single further film. She also appeared in the BBC science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and played a spy in I See a Dark Stranger (1946).

Known For

The Ladykillers

73%

Mrs. Wilberforce

1955

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

70%

Alice

1957

The Delavine Affair

55%

Mrs. Bissett

1955

Sunday Night Theatre

35%

Martie Craven

1950

Laburnum Grove

85%

Mrs. Radfern

1936

A Glimpse of Paradise

90%

Mrs Fielding

1935

The Passionate Pilgrim

Aunt Eugenie

1953

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

70%

Alice

1957

The Ladykillers

73%

Mrs. Wilberforce

1955

John and Julie

49%

Old Lady

1955

The Delavine Affair

55%

Mrs. Bissett

1955

The Large Rope

60%

Grandmother

1953

Three Steps In The Dark

61%

Mrs Riddle

1953

The Passionate Pilgrim

Aunt Eugenie

1953

Lady in the Fog

65%

Mad Mary - Old Inmate at Murder Scene

1952

I Believe in You

68%

Miss Macklin

1952

Death of an Angel

75%

Sarah Oddy

1952

Sunday Night Theatre

35%

Martie Craven

1950

The Shop at Sly Corner

66%

Woman in Shop

1947

The Years Between

67%

Old Man's Wife

1946

I See a Dark Stranger

65%

Old Lady on Train

1946

Tawny Pipit

65%

Miss Pyman

1944

Talk About Jacqueline

70%

Ethel the Housekeeper

1942

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

82%

Train Passenger

1942

Freedom Radio

70%

Granny Schmidt

1941

Gaslight

71%

Alice Barlow's Maid

1940

Marigold

80%

Miss Sarita Dunlop

1938

The Dark Stairway

80%
1938

Farewell Again

65%

Mother of soldier in hospital

1937

Dusty Ermine

58%

Emily Kent

1936

Laburnum Grove

85%

Mrs. Radfern

1936

A Glimpse of Paradise

90%

Mrs Fielding

1935

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