
Thora Hird
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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
Credits

The Lodger (1944)
as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

Consuming Passions (1988)
as Mrs. Gordon

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
as Rosie Wrigley

The Magic Box (1952)
as Doctor's Housekeeper

Term of Trial (1962)
as Mrs. Taylor

The Entertainer (1960)
as Mrs. Ada Lapford

Conspirator (1949)
as Broaders

Afternoon Off (1979)
as Mrs Beevers

A Kind of Loving (1962)
as Mrs. Rothwell

Memento Mori (1992)
as Jean Taylor

The Nightcomers (1972)
as Mrs. Grose

Went the Day Well? (1942)
as Ivy

Romeo and Juliet (1967)
as Nurse

The Weaker Sex (1948)
as Mrs. Gaye

Talking Heads (1988)
Actor

One Good Turn (1955)
as Cook

The Magnet (1950)
as Nanny's friend

Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
as Alice Crouch

The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
as Maud

Once a Sinner (1950)
as Mrs. James

The Next of Kin (1942)
as ATS drover with puncture

Lost (1956)
as Kelly's landlady

Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
as Visitor in Tussauds

Intensive Care (1982)
as Aunty Kitty

Simon and Laura (1955)
as Jessie

Sailor Beware (1956)
as Mrs Lack

Tiger by the Tail (1955)
as Mary

Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)

Street Corner (1953)
as Mrs. Perkins

A Day to Remember (1953)
as Mrs. Trott

Blonde Bait (1956)
as 'Granny' Ramsey

Emergency Call (1952)
as Mrs. Cornelius

Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
as Agnes Russell

The Foreman Went to France (1942)
as Barmaid

Pat and Margaret (1994)
as Jim's Mother

The Crowded Day (1954)
as Customer

The Good Companions (1957)
as Mrs Oakroyd

Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)
as Ma Fox

Now and Forever (1956)
as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)

Boys in Brown (1949)
as Mrs. Knowles

For Better, for Worse (1954)
as Mrs. Doyle

Background (1953)
as Mrs. Humphries

Madness of the Heart (1949)
as Rosa

The Love Match (1955)
as Sal Brown

Further Up the Creek (1958)
as Mrs. Galloway

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
as Joyce

Bitter Harvest (1963)
as Mrs. Jessup

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
as Mrs. Bates

These Dangerous Years (1957)
as Mrs. Ada Larkin

The Villa Maroc (1972)
as Doris

My Brother Jonathan (1948)
as Ada

The Fox Trot (1971)
as Gwen
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am! (1966)
as Blanche Hoskins

Portrait from Life (1948)
as Mrs. Skinner

Personal Affair (1953)
as Mrs. Usher

Women Without Men (1956)
as Gran' Rafferty

The Galloping Major (1951)
as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)

The Mayor's Charity (1977)
as Olive Major

Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
as Janet

The Long Memory (1953)
as Mrs Pewsey

The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
as Mrs. Speck

The Big Frame (1952)
as Hotel Maid

Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
as Mrs. Winthram

The Blind Goddess (1948)
as Derek's Charwoman

Two Thousand Women (1944)
as Mrs. Burtshaw

Home and Away (1956)
as Margie Groves

The Great Game (1953)
as Miss Rawlings

Lost for Words (1999)
as Annie Longden

The Big Blockade (1942)
as German barmaid (uncredited)

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978)
as Mrs. Hopkins

Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993)
as Deric's Mother

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990)
as Old Betsy

The Frightened Man (1952)
as Vera

Over the Odds (1961)
as Mrs Carter

Fools Rush In (1949)
as Mrs. Coot

Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Actor
Julie and the Cadillacs (1999)
as Julie's grandmother

Turn the Key Softly (1953)
as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
A Clean Sweep (1958)
as Vera Watson
Don't Blame the Stork (1954)
as Agnes O'Connor

Go to Blazes (1942)
as Elsie

Emma and Grandpa (1983)
as Narrator (voice)

Say Something Happened (1982)
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

The Cure for Love (1949)
as Mrs. Dorbell





