1902-07-24 ( 122 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Legend of the Werewolf
1975-08-06
Carry On at Your Convenience
1971-12-10
The Comic
1969-11-29
River Rivals
1967-01-01
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966-12-19
Cul-de-sac
1966-06-17
The Idol
1966-02-01
Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1966-01-02
Repulsion
1965-06-01
Carry On Spying
1964-06-01
Tomorrow at Ten
1963-06-23
Carry On Cabby
1963-06-01
Nurse on Wheels
1963-01-03
The Rescue Squad
1963-01-01
Out of the Fog
1962-09-01
The Phantom of the Opera
1962-06-25
Twice Round the Daffodils
1962-04-02
No, My Darling Daughter
1961-08-22
Watch It, Sailor!
1961-08-14
Three on a Spree
1961-06-28
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960-02-02
And the Same to You
1960-02-01
The Horse's Mouth
1958-11-11
The Big Money
1958-06-09
The Key
1958-05-28
The Nice Americans
1958-01-01
Time Without Pity
1957-03-21
A Town Like Alice
1956-03-01
Track the Man Down
1955-06-06
The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954-09-28
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951-10-25
Two Thousand Women
1944-11-06
The Peterville Diamond
1943-01-11
Down Melody Lane
1943-01-01
Old Bill and Son
1941-03-01
A Girl Must Live
1939-09-24
Fine Feathers
1937-12-26
Happy Days Are Here Again
1936-08-10
Lost In The Legion
1934-07-13
Mister Cinders
1934-01-01
Radio Parade
1933-10-01
Their Night Out
1933-03-01
Come Into My Parlour
1932-03-01
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