Highest rated movie: Repulsion (1965)
Lowest rated movie: No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
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Movies starring Renée Houston have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Repulsion - released in 1965 - is Renée Houston's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 752 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Renée Houston is No, My Darling Daughter - released in 1961 - with a score of 54% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Renée Houston has acted in films with Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims and Hugh Futcher.
Renée Houston has worked with these film directors: Gerald Thomas, Roman Polanski, Terence Fisher and Joseph Losey.
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