Hazel Douglas

Actor · Died September 8, 2016, aged 92 · Fulham, West London, England, UK

Hazel Douglas enjoyed something of an Indian summer playing scatter-brained and often sharp-tongued matriarchs in a career that spanned eight decades. Having started her professional career with Harry Hanson's Court Players in the early 1940s, she was most recently seen on television as Derek Jacobi's acidic mother in Vicious, seemingly oblivious that his flatmate Ian McKellen was also his life partner. As Bathilda Bagshot in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010) she was the resurrected vessel of Voldemort's deadly snake - a far cry from her early days in repertory in Jersey, Aldershot and with the Carl Bernard Company. Born in Fulham, London, England as Hazel Mary Smith and briefly evacuated to Newbury during preparations for the Second World War, Douglas spent a year at RADA (where one of her peers was Richard Attenborough) and worked briefly as an assistant stage manager before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service. After the war, she made her West End debut in a Sunday-night performance of Michael Pearson's Against the Tide at the Whitehall Theatre in 1948. In 1953 she was seen in See How They Run, the inaugural production at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, and returned to the Whitehall Theatre for John Chapman's farce Dry Rot in 1954, her first appearance with Brian Rix's resident company at the venue. Over the next decade and more, Douglas was a semi-permanent fixture with Rix's farceurs at the Whitehall, while also being seen in Bernard Kops' Change for the Angel (Arts Theatre, 1960), Trelawny of the Wells (Leatherhead Theatre, 1969) and in Michael Pertwee's She's Done It Again (Garrick Theatre, 1969). Douglas was back in the West End in 1974 sharing the stage with Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray in The Sack Race at the Ambassadors Theatre. The following year, she gave what The Stage described as "a towering performance of all-devouring strength" as Lady Monchensey in TS Eliot's The Family Reunion in Ipswich. In 1978 she was a founding member of Southern Exchange, the joint touring venture between Swindon's Wyvern Theatre, Poole Arts Centre and the Hexagon Theatre, Reading. She appeared alongside Anna Neagle in Noel Coward's Relative Values to reopen the Connaught Theatre, Worthing in 1983 and with Harry Worth in Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's Rockefeller and the Red Indians at Basingstoke's Haymarket Theatre in 1987. Earlier the same year, Douglas was seen in the title role of Chris Martin's Who Killed Hilda Murrell? with the TyneWear Theatre Company. Her sole Broadway appearance was in Bill Naughton's comedy All in Good Time in 1965. A steady screen career that began in 1947 gathered pace in her later years when she enjoyed spells in Where the Heart Is (1998-99), At Home With the Braithwaites (2000-03), The Worst Week of My Life (2004) and episodes of Gavin and Stacey (2008) and Psychoville (2011). Hazel Douglas was born on 2 November 1923 and died on 8 September 8 2016 aged 92.

What are Hazel Douglas' films like?

Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight

Self

35%

Bonds

33%

Morality

26%

Society

5%

Betrayal2

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

2

Melancholic

2

Dread

1

Joyful

1

Absurd

1

Other

2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Hazel Douglas' films?

As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (6).

Also on these channels

Shout! TV2 titles, show their 2 titles on Shout! TV
Best of British Television1 title, show their title on Best of British Television
Sundance Now1 title, show their title on Sundance Now

Subscription and free streaming for Hazel Douglas' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

30 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page.

Vicious(2013)
Show 1 episode · as Mildred Bixby
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
Playhouse Presents (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Show 1 episode · as Tony's Mum
The Cricklewood Greats (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
as Agnes Sands
Albatross(2011)
as Granny
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1(2010)
as Bathilda Bagshot
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Love at First Sight (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
as Mrs. Wachtenberg
Rock & Chips (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
as Glenda's Gran
Rock & Chips (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Show 1 episode · as Glenda's Gran
Run Fatboy Run(2007)
as Older Woman
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Gavin & Stacey(2007)
Show 1 episode · as Betty
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
The IT Crowd(2006)
Show 1 episode · as Joan
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Asylum(2005)
as Lilly
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
The Worst Week of My Life(2004)
Show 6 episodes · as Granny Cook
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
In Denial of Murder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
as Mrs Hallam
Eyes Down (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Show 15 episodes · as Kathline
The Royal(2003)
Show 1 episode · as Sybil Roper
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
The Parole Officer(2001)
as Old Lady in Art Gallery
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
At Home with the Braithwaites(2000)
Show 13 episodes · as Audrey Crowther
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all shows
Gimme Gimme Gimme (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Show 1 episode · as Lady at Bus Stop
Face (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
as Linda
Stone, Scissors, Paper (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
as Hannah
Where the Heart Is (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Show 9 episodes · as Nell
Out Of My Head (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
as Phyllis
The Young Poisoner's Handbook(1995)
as Edna
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Closing Numbers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
as Mary
The Nineteenth Hole (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Show 1 episode · as Lady · as The President's Wife
Testament of Youth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
Show 5 episodes · Actor
The Night We Got the Bird (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
as Bespectacled Lady
Thark (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
as Warner
Trilby (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1947)
as Angele

Career shape

Star power in the 76^th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 30 titles from 1947 to 2013; peak year 2006.

Biggest box office

Asylum (2005)

$2.8M worldwide

Highest rated

Vicious (2013)

Midcredits 89^th

Film career

19472013

Peak 2006 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

1995Screen debut· The Young Poisoner's Handbook

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting30 of 30 · 80^th

By decade

1940s1 · acting1950s1 · acting1960s1 · acting1970s1 · acting1980s1 · acting1990s7 · acting2000s10 · acting2010s8 · acting

Billing

usually 14th · top billed in 0% of 5 roles

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.

Is Hazel Douglas' work okay for kids?

Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.

Their medianMedian of all films

Sex & Nudity3 titlesmedian 33 · mild

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.

Who does Hazel Douglas work with?

People who share at least 2 of Hazel Douglas' MovieCove titles; Ian McKellen shares the most, 2.

Ian McKellen2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Ian McKellen