Bessie Kate Johnson (18 November 1878 – 4 May 1957) was an English actress who appeared on stage from 1894 and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s.

[1][2] In 1908 she married the actor Frank Goodenough Bayly (1873 – 28 November 1923, Newcastle upon Tyne).

Katie Johnson’s stage career included memorable performances such as “Little Lord Fauntleroy” at the Prince’s Theatre in Bristol and her role as Lady McClean in “Escape Me Never” at the Apollo in London in 1933, which she later reprised on Broadway in 1935.

[5] She subsequently played the intriguing role of Aunt Alice, an eavesdropping amateur detective, in “How to Murder a Rich Uncle” (1957).

[3] Other performance include the BBC science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and the role of a spy in I See a Dark Stranger (1946).