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Renée Houston

1902-07-24

The Biography

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

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Repulsion

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Cul-de-sac

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The Flesh and the Fiends

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Carry On at Your Convenience

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Time Without Pity

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The Phantom of the Opera

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Carry On Cabby

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Carry On Spying

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The Belles of St. Trinian's

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Secrets of a Windmill Girl

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A Town Like Alice

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Legend of the Werewolf

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The Key

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The Horse's Mouth

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Old Bill and Son

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Lady Godiva Rides Again

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The Idol

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The Big Money

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Tomorrow at Ten

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Nurse on Wheels

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