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