Renée Houston
Acting
Born 1902-07-24
Died 1980-02-09
Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
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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
Acting
48 credits
The Saint
Theatre 625
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Maigret
Man of the World
W. Somerset Maugham
Repulsion
Cul-de-sac
The Key
Time Without Pity
Carry On Spying
The Phantom of the Opera
The Belles of St Trinian's
Carry On at Your Convenience
The Flesh and the Fiends
Armchair Theatre
Nurse on Wheels
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Carry On Cabby
The Spy with a Cold Nose
The Horse's Mouth
A Town Like Alice
Twice Round the Daffodils
Track the Man Down
The Idol
Legend of the Werewolf
And the Same to You
A Girl Must Live
No, My Darling Daughter
The Comic
Old Bill and Son
Come Into My Parlour
Tomorrow at Ten
Watch It, Sailor!
The Peterville Diamond
The Rescue Squad
Mister Cinders
The Big Money
Two Thousand Women
Out of the Fog
Fine Feathers
River Rivals
Three on a Spree
Lost In The Legion
Their Night Out
Happy Days Are Here Again
Down Melody Lane
The Nice Americans
Other credits
7 credits
ITV Playhouse
No Hiding Place
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Doctor in the House
Radio Parade
No Monkey Business
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Writing
1 credit
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