Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 18, 1878
Place of Birth
Clayton, Sussex, England, UK
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).
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Known For - Movies
The Ladykillers
as Mrs. Wilberforce
I Believe in You
as Miss Macklin
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
as Alice
John and Julie
as Old Lady
Lady in the Fog
as Mad Mary - Old Inmate at Murder Scene
Freedom Radio
as Granny Schmidt
I See a Dark Stranger
as Old Lady on Train
Gaslight
as Alice Barlow's Maid
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Train Passenger
Farewell Again
as Mother of soldier in hospital
