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Renée Houston

Renée Houston

Actor · 1902 – 1980 · 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movies24

  • Movie7.4

    Repulsion

    1965 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Cul-de-sac

    1966 · 321 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Phantom of the Opera

    1962 · 109 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Time Without Pity

    1957 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Flesh and the Fiends

    1960 · 59 votes

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  • Movie6.4

    Carry On Spying

    1964 · 68 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Key

    1958 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.4

    A Town Like Alice

    1956 · 35 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.8

    The Horse's Mouth

    1958 · 50 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Radio Parade

    1933 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Tomorrow at Ten

    1963 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Watch It, Sailor!

    1961 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Legend of the Werewolf

    1975 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.9

    And the Same to You

    1960 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Lady Godiva Rides Again

    1951 · 10 votes

  • Movie4.8

    A Girl Must Live

    1939 · 6 votes

  • Movie3.6
  • Movie4.9

    The Idol

    1966 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Carry On Cabby

    1963 · 73 votes

  • Movie4.0
  • Movie7.0

Series11

  • TV7.4

    The Saint

    1962 · 136 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    ITV Playhouse

    1967 · 3 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV4.8

    No Hiding Place

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    1962 · 3 votes

  • TV7.1

    Maigret

    1960 · 15 votes

  • TV7.2

    Man of the World

    1962 · 5 votes

  • TV5.0

    Doctor in the House

    1969 · 6 votes

  • TV
  • TV6.0

    Armchair Theatre

    1956 · 6 votes