FrameThrower · Actors · Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey
3 films · 156 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1963–1967
Born 6 May 1904 · London, England, UK · died 23 September 1979
From Wikipedia
Catherine Lacey 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 I'm 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 1966/67 she played in two notable horror films, as a malevolent fortune-teller in The Mummy's Shroud and as Boris Karloff's insane wife in Michael Reeves' The Sorcerers.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 156 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Catherine takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Catherine takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
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