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'''Kathleen 'Kay' Walsh''', ([[August 27]], [[1911]] – [[April 16]], [[2005]]), was an [[England|English]] [[actor|actress]] and [[dancer]].
She was born [['''Kathleen Walsh]]''' in [[London]], [[England]], and started out in show business as a [[dancer]]dancing in [[West End of London|West End]] [[music hall]]s. She made her film debut playing Mary Vivien in ''[[Get Your Man]]'' ([[1934 in film|1934]]).
Walsh married her first husband themarried [[film director]] [[David Lean]], on [[November 23]], [[1940]]. They divorced in [[1949]]. She later married the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[psychologist]] [[Elliott Jaques]], and they adpoted a daughter, Gemma, in [[1956]]. This marriage was also laterended in dissolveddivorce.
She appeared in two classic [[Noel Coward]] films, playing Freda Lewis in ''[[In Which We Serve]]'' ([[1942 in film|1942]]) and Queenie Gibbons in ''[[This Happy Breed]]'' ([[1944 in film|1944]]), which were directed by her husband, Lean. He also directed her in her role of Nancy in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' ([[1948 in film|1948]]).
In [[1950 in film|1950]], sheWalsh played a shrewd, scheming maid, Nellie Goode, who attempts to blackmail the character played by [[movie star|star]] [[Jane Wyman]] in [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Stage Fright]]''. Walsh's favourite role was that of the old pub barmaid, Miss D. Coker, in the [[1958 in film|1958]] comedy ''[[The Horse's Mouth]]'' with [[Alec Guinness]].
Between films, she appeared regularly in [[stage play|plays]]s and [[farce]]s at the Strand and Aldwych Theatres, directed by [[Basil Dean]]. She was a semi-regular on the [[1979 in television|1979]] Anglo-Polish [[Television|TV]] [[Television program|series]] ''Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson''. She remained active in films until her retirement in [[1981]], after the film ''[[Night Crossing]]''.
Walsh later lived in retirement in London. She died there at age 93.
[[Kay Walsh]] died aged 93 on [[16 April]] [[2005]] in [[London]], [[England]] [[UK]].
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