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Katie Johnson
- Katie Johnson as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
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Mrs Wilberforce is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding lopsided house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London.
Carol Oddy plays kindly Mrs Wilberforce, a sweet old lady blissfully unaware of the true intentions of Professor Marcus and Co.
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- The Playhouse Company, Cheltenham
When the policeman calls at Mrs. Wilberforce's house, he introduces himself as "Sergeant McDonald". At the end of the film, the Inspector refers to the same character as "Sergeant Harris". In the credits he is simply listed as "Sergeant".
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- Comedy, Crime
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1956-02-03
Mrs Wilberforce, a sweet little old lady, rents out a room in her lopsided house to Marcus, a professor of music. She is blissfully unaware that he is actually a maniacal criminal who is putting together against a gang of misfits who will stop at nothing to commit the heist of their careers.
Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) likes to report suspicious behavior to the police. Unaware of her reputation, the dapper thief Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness) rents rooms in the elderly...
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- Alec Guinness
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Comedy
Jul 24, 2019 · The film even offers a little gentle knockabout humour in the sequence following the robbery when Mrs Wilberforce manages to inadvertently cause a street brawl between a barrow boy and a cab driver, played by the two popular comics Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Connor.
Oct 23, 2020 · No matter what the forces ranged against her, Mrs Wilberforce is as invulnerable as the Road Runner. Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Alec Guinness and Alexander Mackendrick on set of The Ladykillers. Mackendrick liked to describe himself as “a political cartoonist manqué”’.
