---
name: "Kay Walsh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kay-walsh"
fi1m_id: "kay-walsh"
imdb_id: "nm0909727"
tmdb_id: 67615
wikidata_id: "Q443284"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 November 1911"
died: "16 April 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:56:39.448255+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kay Walsh

## Identity

Kay Walsh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kay-walsh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kay-walsh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0909727
- **TMDB ID:** 67615
- **Wikidata ID:** Q443284
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Walsh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443284, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909727/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67615

Actor. Born 15 November 1911 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. Died 16 April 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 November 1911, Chelsea, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 16 April 2005
- **Active:** 1942–1946
- **Also known as:** Kathleen "Kay" Walsh, Kathleen Walsh
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Bernard Miles](https://film.one/person/bernard-miles.md), [David Lean](https://film.one/person/david-lean.md), [John Mills](https://film.one/person/john-mills.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Walsh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443284, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909727/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67615

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md) (84), [*In Which We Serve*](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md) (74)

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## Biography

Kay Walsh (born Kathleen Walsh) was an English actress, dancer and screenwriter. She began her career as a dancer in West End music halls and made her film debut in 1934. She appeared in numerous quota quickies before gaining wider recognition in the 1940s.

Walsh met film editor David Lean in 1936; they married in 1940 and divorced in 1949. She appeared in Lean's *In Which We Serve* (1942) and *This Happy Breed* (1944), and contributed dialogue to the 1938 film of *Pygmalion*. She received a writing credit on Lean's *Great Expectations* (1946) for devising the closing sequence, and devised the opening sequence of his *Oliver Twist* (1948), in which she played Nancy.

Walsh continued as a character actress through the 1950s and 1960s in films including *Stage Fright* (1950), *Tunes of Glory* (1960) and *Scrooge* (1970). She was married for a time to psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, independent.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *In Which We Serve* (1942), Fi1m 74, as Freda Lewis / Freda — [page](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Great Expectations* (1946), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh* (2008), as Mrs. Waggett (archive footage)
- *Night Crossing* (1982), Actor
- *Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson* (1979), series, as Mrs. Watson
- *The Ruling Class* (1972), as Mrs. Piggott-Jones
- *Scrooge* (1970), as Mrs. Fezziwig
- *The Virgin and the Gypsy* (1970), as Aunt Cissie
- *Connecting Rooms* (1970), as Mrs. Brent
- *Taste of Excitement* (1969), as Miss Barrow
- *Journey to the Unknown* (1969), as Joan Walker
- *Journey to the Unknown* (1968), series, as Mrs Joan Walker
- *Bikini Paradise* (1967), as Harriet Pembroke
- *The Witches* (1966), as Stephanie Bax
- *ABC Stage 67* (1966), series, as Greta
- *A Study in Terror* (1965), as Cathy Eddowes
- *He Who Rides a Tiger* (1965), as Mrs. Woodley
- *Gideon's Way* (1965), series, as Harriet Bright
- *The Beauty Jungle* (1964), as Mrs. Freeman
- *The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh* (1964), series, as Mrs. Waggett
- *Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow* (1963), as Mrs. Waggett
- *80,000 Suspects* (1963), as Matron
- *The Human Jungle* (1963), series, as Mrs. Kross
- *The L-Shaped Room* (1962), as Prostitute (uncredited)
- *Reach for Glory* (1962), as Mrs. Curlew
- *Lunch Hour* (1962), as The Manageress
- *Greyfriars Bobby* (1961), as Mrs. Brown
- *Tunes of Glory* (1960), as Mary Titterington
- *The Horse's Mouth* (1958), as Dee Coker
- *Now and Forever* (1956), as Miss Muir
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Mrs. Morgan
- *Cast a Dark Shadow* (1955), as Charlotte Young
- *The Wonderful World of Disney* (1954), series, as Mrs. Waggett
- *Lease of Life* (1954), as Mrs. Vera Thorne
- *The Rainbow Jacket* (1954), as Barbara Crain
- *Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder* (1953), as Priscilla
- *Young Bess* (1953), as Mrs. Ashley
- *Meet Me Tonight* (1952), as Lily Pepper
- *Hunted* (1952), as Mrs. Sykes
- *The Magic Box* (1952), as Hotel Receptionist
- *Encore* (1951), as Miss Molly Reid
- *The Magnet* (1950), as Mrs Brent
- *Last Holiday* (1950), as Mrs. Poole
- *Stage Fright* (1950), as Nellie Goode
- *Oliver Twist* (1948), as Nancy
- *Vice Versa* (1948), as Florence 'Fanny' Verlane
- *The October Man* (1947), as Molly Newman
- *Great Expectations* (1946), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations.md)
- *This Happy Breed* (1944), as Queenie Gibbons
- *In Which We Serve* (1942), as Freda Lewis / Freda — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/in-which-we-serve.md)
- *The Middle Watch* (1940), as Fay Eaton
- *The Chinese Bungalow* (1940), as Sadie Merivale
- *The Second Mr. Bush* (1940), as Angela Windel-Todd
- *All At Sea* (1940), as Diana
- *Sons of the Sea* (1939), as Alison Devar
- *The Missing People* (1939), as Peggy Gillette
- *The Mind of Mr. Reeder* (1939), as Peggy Gillette
- *Meet Mr. Penny* (1938), as Peggy Allgood
- *I See Ice* (1938), as Judy Gaye
- *Keep Fit* (1937), as Joan Allen
- *All That Glitters* (1936), as Eve Payne-Coade
- *The Secret of Stamboul* (1936), as Diana
- *The Luck of the Irish* (1935), as Eileen O'Donnell
- *A Little Bit of Bluff* (1935), as Enid's Friend (uncredited)

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