Katie Johnson

KATIE JOHNSON d1957. English actress who appeared on stage from 1894 and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. She first appeared in a film (aged 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 in Kent aged 78 on May 4th 1957 having only appeared in one 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)