Renée Houston
Born
July 24, 1902
Died
February 9, 1980 (77 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
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.
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1975
Carry On at Your Convenience
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1971
The Comic
Olive
1969
Doctor in the House
(26 episodes)
1969
River Rivals
Mrs. Fredericks
1967
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Lady Blanchflower
1966
Cul-de-sac
Christopher's Mother
1966
The Idol
1st Woman at Party
1966
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1966
Repulsion
Mme Balch
1965
Carry On Spying
Funhouse Madame
1964
Tomorrow at Ten
Masie Maddox
1963
Carry On Cabby
Molly
1963
Nurse on Wheels
Mrs. Beacon
1963
The Rescue Squad
Mrs Manse
1963
The Rescue Squad
Mrs. Manse
1963
The Saint
Ida Warshed · (1 episode)
1962
The Saint
Mrs. McAlister · (1 episode)
1962
Out of the Fog
Ma
1962
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
(1 episode)
1962
The Phantom of the Opera
Mrs. Tucker
1962
Twice Round the Daffodils
Matron
1962
No, My Darling Daughter
Miss Yardley
1961
Watch It, Sailor!
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1961
Three on a Spree
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1961
Maigret
Ja-Ja · (1 episode)
1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
Helen Burke
1960
And the Same to You
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1960
No Hiding Place
(2 episodes)
1959
The Horse's Mouth
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1958
The Big Money
Bobbie
1958
The Key
Canteen Worker (uncredited)
1958
The Nice Americans
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1958
Time Without Pity
Mrs. Harker
1957
A Town Like Alice
Ebbey
1956
Track the Man Down
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1955
The Belles of St. Trinian's
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1954
Lady Godiva Rides Again
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1951
Two Thousand Women
Maud Wright
1944
The Peterville Diamond
Lady Margaret
1943
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1943
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1941
A Girl Must Live
Gloria Lind
1939
Fine Feathers
Teenie McPherson
1937
Happy Days Are Here Again
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1936
No Monkey Business
1935
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1935
Lost In The Legion
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1934
Radio Parade
1933
Their Night Out
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Come Into My Parlour
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