
Acting
Born July 24, 1902 · 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

Legend of the Werewolf
1975

Carry On at Your Convenience
1971
The Comic
1969
River Rivals
1967

The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966

Cul-de-sac
1966

The Idol
1966

Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1966

Repulsion
1965

Carry On Spying
1964

The Rescue Squad
1963

Tomorrow at Ten
1963

Carry On Cabby
1963

Nurse on Wheels
1963

Out of the Fog
1962

The Phantom of the Opera
1962

Twice Round the Daffodils
1962

No, My Darling Daughter
1961

Watch It, Sailor!
1961

Three on a Spree
1961

The Flesh and the Fiends
1960

And the Same to You
1960

The Horse's Mouth
1958

The Big Money
1958

The Key
1958
The Nice Americans
1958

Time Without Pity
1957

A Town Like Alice
1956

Track the Man Down
1955

The Belles of St Trinian's
1954

Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951

Two Thousand Women
1944

The Peterville Diamond
1943
Down Melody Lane
1943

Old Bill and Son
1941

A Girl Must Live
1939
Fine Feathers
1937
Happy Days Are Here Again
1936

No Monkey Business
1935

Mister Cinders
1935
Lost In The Legion
1934

Radio Parade
1933
Their Night Out
1933
Come Into My Parlour
1932