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
Consuming Passions (1988)
as Mrs. Gordon
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
as Rosie Wrigley
Conspirator (1949)
as Broaders
The Lodger (1944)
as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
The Nightcomers (1972)
as Mrs. Grose
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am! (1966)
as Blanche Hoskins
One Good Turn (1955)
as Cook
Home and Away (1956)
as Margie Groves
A Kind of Loving (1962)
as Mrs. Rothwell
Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
as Alice Crouch
Last of the Summer Wine: Uncle of the Bride (1986)
as Edie Pegden
The Weaker Sex (1948)
as Mrs. Gaye
Romeo and Juliet (1967)
as Nurse
Last of the Summer Wine: Big Day at Dream Acres (1987)
as Edie Pegden
Tiger by the Tail (1955)
as Mary
Went the Day Well? (1942)
as Ivy
My Brother Jonathan (1948)
as Ada
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
as Joyce
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
as Maud
Further Up the Creek (1958)
as Mrs. Galloway
Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993)
as Deric's Mother
The Villa Maroc (1972)
as Doris
Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
as Mrs. Winthram
The Entertainer (1960)
as Mrs. Ada Lapford
Term of Trial (1962)
as Mrs. Taylor
Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
as Agnes Russell
Simon and Laura (1955)
as Jessie
Pat and Margaret (1994)
as Jim's Mother
For Better, for Worse (1954)
as Mrs. Doyle
A Day to Remember (1953)
as Mrs. Trott
The Magic Box (1952)
as Doctor's Housekeeper
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
as Visitor in Tussauds
The Magnet (1950)
as Nanny's friend
Lost for Words (1999)
as Annie Longden
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
as Barmaid
Don't Blame the Stork (1954)
as Agnes O'Connor
The Next of Kin (1942)
as ATS drover with puncture
Intensive Care (1982)
as Aunty Kitty
The Long Memory (1953)
as Mrs Pewsey
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)
as Ma Fox
Lost (1956)
as Kelly's landlady
The Cure for Love (1949)
as Mrs. Dorbell
Background (1953)
as Mrs. Humphries
Portrait from Life (1948)
as Mrs. Skinner
Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Actor
Blonde Bait (1956)
as 'Granny' Ramsey
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1990)
as Old Betsy
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
as Mrs. Bates
Women Without Men (1956)
as Gran' Rafferty
The Big Frame (1952)
as Hotel Maid
The Galloping Major (1951)
as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
Emergency Call (1952)
as Mrs. Cornelius
Turn the Key Softly (1953)
as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Memento Mori (1992)
as Jean Taylor
Personal Affair (1953)
as Mrs. Usher
The Love Match (1955)
as Sal Brown
Boys in Brown (1949)
as Mrs. Knowles
Street Corner (1953)
as Mrs. Perkins
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
as Janet
Now and Forever (1956)
as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Afternoon Off (1979)
as Mrs Beevers
Sailor Beware (1956)
as Mrs Lack
The Good Companions (1957)
as Mrs Oakroyd
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978)
as Mrs. Hopkins
The Crowded Day (1954)
as Customer
The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
as Mrs. Speck
The Big Blockade (1942)
as German barmaid (uncredited)
Julie and the Cadillacs (1999)
as Julie's grandmother
The Blind Goddess (1948)
as Derek's Charwoman
Madness of the Heart (1949)
as Rosa
Over the Odds (1961)
as Mrs Carter
Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
Talking Heads (1988)
Actor
Fools Rush In (1949)
as Mrs. Coot
These Dangerous Years (1957)
as Mrs. Ada Larkin
Once a Sinner (1950)
as Mrs. James
Bitter Harvest (1963)
as Mrs. Jessup (uncredited)
The Mayor's Charity (1977)
as Olive Major
Emma and Grandpa (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
The Fox Trot (1971)
as Gwen
Go to Blazes (1942)
as Elsie
The Great Game (1953)
as Miss Rawlings
Say Something Happened (1982)
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
Two Thousand Women (1944)
as Mrs. Burtshaw
A Clean Sweep (1958)
as Vera Watson
The Frightened Man (1952)
as Vera