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 Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
as Rosie Wrigley
The Lodger (1944)
as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
The Weaker Sex (1948)
as Mrs. Gaye
Consuming Passions (1988)
as Mrs. Gordon
The Nightcomers (1972)
as Mrs. Grose
Conspirator (1949)
as Broaders
The Entertainer (1960)
as Mrs. Ada Lapford
One Good Turn (1955)
as Cook
Went the Day Well? (1942)
as Ivy
The Magic Box (1952)
as Doctor's Housekeeper
A Kind of Loving (1962)
as Mrs. Rothwell
The Crowded Day (1954)
as Customer
For Better, for Worse (1954)
as Mrs. Doyle
My Brother Jonathan (1948)
as Ada
Memento Mori (1992)
as Jean Taylor
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
as Visitor in Tussauds
Term of Trial (1962)
as Mrs. Taylor
Tiger by the Tail (1955)
as Mary
Sailor Beware (1956)
as Mrs Lack
The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
as Mrs. Speck
Lost (1956)
as Kelly's landlady
Romeo and Juliet (1967)
as Nurse
Further Up the Creek (1958)
as Mrs. Galloway
Talking Heads (1988)
Actor
Street Corner (1953)
as Mrs. Perkins
Personal Affair (1953)
as Mrs. Usher
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)
as Ma Fox
Afternoon Off (1979)
as Mrs Beevers
The Next of Kin (1942)
as ATS drover with puncture
Pat and Margaret (1994)
as Jim's Mother
Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
as Agnes Russell
The Long Memory (1953)
as Mrs Pewsey
Boys in Brown (1949)
as Mrs. Knowles
The Great Game (1953)
as Miss Rawlings
Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
as Alice Crouch
Intensive Care (1982)
as Aunty Kitty
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
as Janet
Simon and Laura (1955)
as Jessie
Once a Sinner (1950)
as Mrs. James
The Blind Goddess (1948)
as Derek's Charwoman
Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Actor
These Dangerous Years (1957)
as Mrs. Ada Larkin
A Day to Remember (1953)
as Mrs. Trott
Two Thousand Women (1944)
as Mrs. Burtshaw
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990)
as Old Betsy
Blonde Bait (1956)
as 'Granny' Ramsey
Lost for Words (1999)
as Annie Longden
The Fox Trot (1971)
as Gwen
The Good Companions (1957)
as Mrs Oakroyd
Bitter Harvest (1963)
as Mrs. Jessup
The Villa Maroc (1972)
as Doris
The Magnet (1950)
as Nanny's friend
Home and Away (1956)
as Margie Groves
Emergency Call (1952)
as Mrs. Cornelius
Portrait from Life (1948)
as Mrs. Skinner
Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
The Big Blockade (1942)
as German barmaid (uncredited)
Now and Forever (1956)
as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Women Without Men (1956)
as Gran' Rafferty
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
as Barmaid
The Cure for Love (1949)
as Mrs. Dorbell
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
as Mrs. Bates
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
as Maud
Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993)
as Deric's Mother
Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
as Mrs. Winthram
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am! (1966)
as Blanche Hoskins
Madness of the Heart (1949)
as Rosa
The Big Frame (1952)
as Hotel Maid
Turn the Key Softly (1953)
as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
The Galloping Major (1951)
as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
as Joyce
A Clean Sweep (1958)
as Vera Watson
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978)
as Mrs. Hopkins
Say Something Happened (1982)
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
The Love Match (1955)
as Sal Brown
Background (1953)
as Mrs. Humphries
Fools Rush In (1949)
as Mrs. Coot
Don't Blame the Stork (1954)
as Agnes O'Connor
Julie and the Cadillacs (1999)
as Julie's grandmother
The Mayor's Charity (1977)
as Olive Major
The Frightened Man (1952)
as Vera
Emma and Grandpa (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Over the Odds (1961)
as Mrs Carter
Last of the Summer Wine: Uncle of the Bride (1986)
as Edie
Go to Blazes (1942)
as Elsie