Thora Hird

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 92

Gender Female

Birthday 1911-05-28

Day of Death 2003-03-15 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As

Dame Thora Hird

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Thora Hird

Biography

Dame Thora Hird, DBE was an English actress and comedian of stage and screen, presenter and writer. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, becoming a household name and a British institution.

Known For

Acting

2000

(2 episodes)

1999		Lost for Words as Annie Longden
1999		Julie and the Cadillacs as Julie's grandmother

1998		Dinnerladies (1 episode) as Enid
1998		Talking Heads 2

1994

as Jim's Mother

1993		Wide-Eyed and Legless as Deric's Mother
1993		Goggle Eyes (4 episodes) as Mrs Harrington

1992		Memento Mori as Jean Taylor
1992		Heartbeat (1 episode) as Hannah Stockdale

1990

as Old Betsy

1988		Talking Heads (1 episode) as Violet (1 episode) as Doris
1988		Talking Heads
1988		Consuming Passions as Mrs. Gordon

1983

(15 episodes)

1982		Objects of Affection (1 episode) as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
1982		Intensive Care as Aunty Kitty

1981

(15 episodes) as Captain Emily Ridley

1979		Afternoon Off as Mrs Beevers
1979		Blankety Blank (1 episode)

1978		Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf as Mrs. Hopkins
1978		All Creatures Great and Small (2 episodes) as Mrs. Clarke

1977

as Olive Major

1973

(1 episode) as Herself (archive footage) (153 episodes) as Edie

1972		The Villa Maroc as Doris
1972		The Nightcomers as Mrs. Grose

1971

as Gwen

1970		Play for Today (3 episodes)
1970		Some Will, Some Won't as Agnes Russell

1969

(36 episodes)

1968

(54 episodes)

1965

(1 episode) as Clare Soppitt

1964

as Mrs. Winthram

1963		Meet the Wife (38 episodes)
1963		Bitter Harvest as Mrs. Jessup

1962		Term of Trial as Mrs. Taylor
1962		A Kind of Loving as Mrs. Rothwell
1962		Z-Cars (1 episode)

1960

as Mrs. Ada Lapford

1958		Further Up the Creek as Mrs. Galloway
1958		A Clean Sweep as Vera Watson

1957		These Dangerous Years as Mrs. Ada Larkin
1957		The Good Companions as Mrs Oakroyd

1956		Now and Forever as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
1956		Sailor Beware as Mrs Lack
1956		Home and Away as Margie Groves
1956		Women Without Men as Gran' Rafferty
1956		Blonde Bait as 'Granny' Ramsey
1956		Lost as Kelly's landlady

1955		Simon and Laura as Jessie
1955		The Adventures of Robin Hood (1 episode) as Ada
1955		Tiger by the Tail as Mary
1955		The Quatermass Xperiment as Rosemary 'Rosie' Elizabeth Wrigley
1955		The Love Match as Sal Brown
1955		One Good Turn as Cook

1954		For Better, for Worse as Mrs. Doyle
1954		Don't Blame the Stork as Agnes O'Connor

1953		A Day to Remember as Mrs. Trott
1953		Background as Mrs. Humphries
1953		Personal Affair as Mrs. Usher
1953		Turn the Key Softly as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
1953		Street Corner as Mrs. Perkins
1953		The Long Memory as Mrs Pewsey
1953		The Great Game as Miss Rawlings

1952		The Big Frame as Hotel Maid
1952		Time, Gentlemen, Please! as Alice Crouch
1952		Emergency Call as Mrs. Cornelius
1952		The Frightened Man as Vera
1952		The Magic Box as Doctor's Housekeeper

1950		The Magnet as Nanny's friend
1950		Once a Sinner as Mrs. James

1949		The Cure for Love as Mrs. Dorbell
1949		Madness of the Heart as Rosa
1949		Boys in Brown as Mrs. Knowles
1949		Conspirator as Broaders
1949		Maytime in Mayfair as Janet
1949		A Boy, a Girl and a Bike as Mrs. Bates
1949		Once a Jolly Swagman as Ma Fox
1949		Fools Rush In as Mrs. Coot

1948		Portrait from Life as Mrs. Skinner
1948		The Weaker Sex as Mrs. Gaye
1948		The Blind Goddess as Derek's Charwoman
1948		Corridor of Mirrors as Visitor in Tussauds
1948		My Brother Jonathan as Ada

1947

as Maud

1944		Two Thousand Women as Mrs. Burtshaw
1944		The Lodger as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

1942		Went the Day Well? as Ivy
1942		Somewhere In France as Barmaid
1942		The Next of Kin as ATS drover with puncture
1942		The Black Sheep of Whitehall as Joyce
1942		Go to Blazes as Elsie

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- Movies 74
- TV Shows 18
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- Acting 94

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