Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1902-07-24
Day of Death
1980-02-09
Place of Birth
Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Renée Houston
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
Filmography (45)
Legend of the Werewolf
1975
Carry On at Your Convenience
1971The Comic
1969River 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
The Rescue Squad
1963
Tomorrow at Ten
1963
Carry On Cabby
1963
