Katie Johnson (English actress)

This article is about the British actress. For American model/actress, see Katie Johnson (actress). For the personal secretary to Barack Obama, see Katie Johnson (personal secretary).

Katie Johnson (18 November 1878 in Clayton, Sussex, – 4 May 1957 in Elham, Kent), born Bessie Kate Johnson, was an English actress who appeared on stage from 1894 and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1908 she married the actor Frank Goodenough Bayly (1873 – 28 November 1923, Newcastle upon Tyne).

She first appeared in a film at age 53, in 1932, but never received critical acclaim for her performances until 1955, when she starred, aged 76, 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).

Selected filmography

• After Office Hours (1932)
• A Glimpse of Paradise (1934)
• Laburnum Grove (1936)
• Dusty Ermine (1936)
• Sunset in Vienna (1937)
• Marigold (1938)
• The Dark Stairway (1938)
• Gaslight (1940)
• Freedom Radio (1941)
• Jeannie (1941)
• The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
• Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
• He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
• Tawny Pipit (1944)
• Love Letters (1945)
• I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
• The Years Between (1946)
• Meet Me at Dawn (1947)
• Code of Scotland Yard (1947)
• Death of an Angel (1952)
• I Believe in You (1952)
• Lady in the Fog (1952)
• Three Steps in the Dark (1953)
• Delavine Affair (1954)
• The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
• Out of the Clouds (1955)
• John and Julie (1955)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)

References

• Film academy awards, The Times, February 13, 1956, pg. 5
• Obituary, The Times, May 9, 1957, pg. 12
• Will, The Times, July 29, 1957, pg. 10

External links

• Katie Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
• Katie Johnson at the Internet Broadway Database
• Performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol