Later Career
As her cinema appearances became less frequent, Harrison turned to television. In 1966, she starred on television as Mrs. Thursday, a charwoman who inherits £10 million pounds and the controlling interest in a major company, opposite Hugh Manning, who later appeared in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm.
Kathleen Harrison died in 1995 at the age of 103. She and her husband John Henry Back had three children.
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