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Cul-de-sac

as Christopher's Mother

1966
Repulsion

as Mme Balch

1965
Out of the Fog

as Ma

1962
The Flesh and the Fiends

as Helen Burke

1961
The Horse's Mouth

as Sara Monday

1958
The Big Money

as Bobbie

1958
Time Without Pity

as Mrs. Harker

1957
A Town Like Alice

as Ebbey

1956
Track the Man Down

as Pat Sherwood

1955
The Belles of St. Trinian's

as Miss Brimmer

1954
Two Thousand Women

as Maud Wright

1944
Old Bill and Son

as Stella Malloy

1941
Renée Houston Renée Houston

Birthday

1902-07-24

Place of Birth

Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

Biography

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
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