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Renée Houston
Actor
Died February 9, 1980 (77 years)
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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Filmography
| 2001 | A Profile of 'A Town Like Alice' · as Ebbey |
| 1975 | Legend of the Werewolf · as Chou-Chou |
| 1971 | Carry on at Your Convenience · as Agatha Spanner |
| 1969 | Special Branch (TV Series) · as Scotswoman |
| 1969 | Doctor in the House (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Olive |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1966 | Cul-de-sac · as Christopher's Mother |
| 1966 | Secrets of a Windmill Girl · as Unknown |
| 1966 | The Idol · as 1st Woman at Party |
| 1965 | |
| 1964 | Carry on Spying · as Funhouse Madame |
| 1963 | Nurse on Wheels · as Mrs. Beacon |
| 1963 | Tomorrow at Ten · as Masie Maddox |
| 1963 | The Rescue Squad · as Unknown |
| 1963 | Carry on Cabby · as Molly |
| 1962 | The Phantom of the Opera · as Mrs. Tucker |
| 1962 | Twice Round the Daffodils · as Matron |
| 1962 | Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1962 | The Saint (TV Series) · as Ida Warshed |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) · as Big Rosie |
| 1961 | Watch It, Sailor! · as Mrs. Mottram |
| 1960 | The Flesh and the Fiends · as Helen Burke |
| 1960 | And the Same to You · as Mildred Pomphret |
| 1960 | Maigret (TV Series) · as Ja-Ja |
| 1958 | The Horse's Mouth · as Sara Monday |
| 1958 | The Key · as Canteen Worker |
| 1958 | Them Nice Americans · as Mrs. Adams |
| 1957 | Time Without Pity · as Mrs. Harker |
| 1956 | The Big Money · as Bobbie |
| 1956 | A Town Like Alice · as Ebbey |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Ethel Watts |
| 1956 | The Errol Flynn Theatre (TV Series) · as Mrs. Bridie |
| 1955 | Track the Man Down · as Pat Sherwood |
| 1955 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) · as Little John's Mother |
| 1954 | The Belles of St. Trinian's · as Miss Brimmer |
| 1951 | Bikini Baby · as Beattie |
| 1944 | Two Thousand Women · as Maud Wright |
| 1941 | Old Bill and Son · as Stella Malloy |
| 1939 | A Girl Must Live · as Gloria Lind |
| 1935 | Mister Cinders · as Mrs. Phipps |
| 1935 | No Monkey Business · as Jessie |
| 1933 | Their Night Out · as Maggie Oliphant |
| 1927 | Blighty · as Typist |