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Katie Johnson
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Katie Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Ladykillers
as Mrs. Wilberforce
Gaslight
as Alice Barlow's Maid
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
as Alice
I See a Dark Stranger
as Old Lady on Train
Tawny Pipit
as Miss Pyman
Lady in the Fog
as Mad Mary - Old Inmate at Murder Scene
The Shop at Sly Corner
as Woman in Shop
The Years Between
as Old Man's Wife
The Large Rope
as Grandmother
Death of an Angel
as Sarah Oddy
