Catherine Elizabeth Salkeld (24 July 1909 – 15 April 1980) was a Scottish actress, known for her work with the Perth Repertory Company in the 1930s and 1940s.
[4] Her uncle was artist Sholto Johnstone Douglas, and her first cousins included John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk and Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross.
She trained as an actress at a school run by her uncle Walter, the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in South Kensington.
Her stage work, much of it with the Perth Repertory Company[9][10][11] included roles in Grounds for Divorce (1934),[12] Beyond (1934),[13] The Rose Without a Thorn (1935),[14] Lovers' Leap (1935),[15] Quality Street (1935),[16] Michael and Mary (1935),[17] The Green Goddess (1936),[18] A Cuckoo in the Nest (1936),[19] And So to Bed (1936),[20] Mrs. Moonlight (1936),[21] Berkeley Square (1936),[22] Polly with a Past (1936),[23] Advertising April (1936),[24] Yew Tree Farm (1937),[25] Tudor Wench (1937),[26] Nina (1938),[27][28] The Prisoner of Zenda (1938),[29] Private Lives (1938),[30] Beware the Dog (1939),[31] The Morning After (1939),[32] Strange Reality (1939),[33] Man with a Load of Mischief (1944),[34] House of Regrets (1944),[35] The Master Builder (1944),[36] The Madwoman of Chaillot (1951), The Thistle and the Rose (1951), The King's Son (1953),[37] and The Magic Pipe (1953).
[39][40] On screen, she was seen in television programmes including Pride and Prejudice (1938), Nocturne in Scotland (1951), Mother Michel and Her Cat (1955), The Infinite Shoeblack (1956), The Twopenny Diamond (1956), and Emergency Ward 10 (1957).