Catherine — The Admirable Crichton Character Profile

About Catherine

One of the Earl's daughters who gets arrested at a suffragette protest, prompting the family's decision to flee on the yacht. She survives the shipwreck and the subsequent island survival, adapting to the inverted social hierarchy under Crichton's leadership.

Character Facts

Played by

Mercy Haystead

Appears in

The Admirable Crichton (1957)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Catherine — Conflict Rival — Ernest (Gerald Harper)

  Competing narratives of heroism versus activism.

• Catherine — Alliance Fellow Castaway — Treherne (Jack Watling)

  Stranded allies navigating survival.

• Catherine — Conflict Class Antagonist — Lady Brocklehurst (Martita Hunt)

  Ideological clash between aristocracy and reform.

• Catherine — Social Fellow Castaway — Brocklehurst (Peter Graves)

  Mutual survivors of the maritime disaster.

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More characters from The Admirable Crichton

• Bill Crichton (Kenneth More)
• Eliza Tweeny (Diane Cilento)
• Lord Henry Loam (Cecil Parker)
• Lady Brocklehurst (Martita Hunt)
• Lady Mary (Sally Ann Howes)
• Treherne (Jack Watling)
• Ernest (Gerald Harper)
• Brocklehurst (Peter Graves)