Thora Hird
Born: 1911-05-28 in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
Died: 2003-03-15
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2003
- Thora Hird Tribute as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
1999
- Lost for Words as Annie Longden
- Julie and the Cadillacs as Julie's grandmother
1998
- Parkinson as Self
- dinnerladies as Enid
- Talking Heads 2
1995
- The Queen's Nose as Postmistress
1994
- Pat and Margaret as Jim's Mother
1993
- Goggle Eyes as Mrs Harrington
- Wide-Eyed and Legless as Deric's Mother
1992
- Heartbeat as Hannah Stockdale
- Memento Mori as Jean Taylor
1990
- Perfect Scoundrels as Martha
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Old Betsy
1989
- The Tailor of Gloucester as Mrs. Speck
1988
- Talking Heads as Doris
- Consuming Passions as Mrs. Gordon
- Talking Heads
1985
- Screen Two as Jean Taylor
1983
- ITV Christmas Comedy
- Emma and Grandpa as Narrator (voice)
1982
- Objects of Affection as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
- Intensive Care as Aunty Kitty
- Say Something Happened as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
1981
- Hallelujah! as Captain Emily Ridley
1979
- Blankety Blank
- Afternoon Off as Mrs Beevers
1978
- All Creatures Great and Small as Mrs. Clarke
- Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf as Mrs. Hopkins
1977
- The Mayor's Charity as Olive Major
1976
- Tell Me Another as Herself
1973
- Last of the Summer Wine as Edie
1972
- The Nightcomers as Mrs. Grose
- The Villa Maroc as Doris
1971
- The Fox Trot as Gwen
1970
- Play for Today as Olive Major
- Some Will, Some Won't as Agnes Russell
1969
- In Loving Memory as Ivy Unsworth
1968
1967
- Romeo and Juliet as Nurse
1966
- Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am! as Blanche Hoskins
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Clare Soppitt
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Blanche Hoskins
- Rattle of a Simple Man as Mrs. Winthram
1963
- Festival as Mrs. Baines
- Bitter Harvest as Mrs. Jessup
- Meet the Wife
1962
- Z-Cars
- A Kind of Loving as Mrs. Rothwell
- Term of Trial as Mrs. Taylor
1961
- Drama 61-67 as Mrs. Hope
- Over the Odds as Mrs Carter
1960
- The Entertainer as Mrs. Ada Lapford
1958
- Further Up the Creek as Mrs. Galloway
- A Clean Sweep as Vera Watson
1957
- These Dangerous Years as Mrs. Ada Larkin
- The Good Companions as Mrs Oakroyd
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Momma Brodsky
- Sailor Beware as Mrs Lack
- Lost as Kelly's landlady
- Home and Away as Margie Groves
- Now and Forever as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
- Women Without Men as Gran' Rafferty
- Blonde Bait as 'Granny' Ramsey
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Ada
- Dixon of Dock Green as Alice Leggett
- The Quatermass Xperiment as Rosie Wrigley
- One Good Turn as Cook
- Simon and Laura as Jessie
- Tiger by the Tail as Mary
- The Love Match as Sal Brown
1954
- For Better, for Worse as Mrs. Doyle
- Don't Blame the Stork as Agnes O'Connor
- The Crowded Day as Customer
1953
- Background as Mrs. Humphries
- The Long Memory as Mrs Pewsey
- Turn the Key Softly as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
- Personal Affair as Mrs. Usher
- Street Corner as Mrs. Perkins
- A Day to Remember as Mrs. Trott
- The Great Game as Miss Rawlings
1952
- The Magic Box as Doctor's Housekeeper
- Time, Gentlemen, Please! as Alice Crouch
- Emergency Call as Mrs. Cornelius
- The Frightened Man as Vera
- The Big Frame as Hotel Maid
1951
- The Galloping Major as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
1950
- The Magnet as Nanny's friend
- Once a Sinner as Mrs. James
1949
- The BAFTA Awards as Self - Winner
- The Cure for Love as Mrs. Dorbell
- Boys in Brown as Mrs. Knowles
- Madness of the Heart as Rosa
- Conspirator as Broaders
- Once a Jolly Swagman as Ma Fox
- Maytime in Mayfair as Janet
- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike as Mrs. Bates
- Fools Rush In as Mrs. Coot
1948
- Corridor of Mirrors as Visitor in Tussauds
- My Brother Jonathan as Ada
- Portrait from Life as Mrs. Skinner
- The Blind Goddess as Derek's Charwoman
- The Weaker Sex as Mrs. Gaye
1947
- The Courtneys of Curzon Street as Maud
1944
- The Lodger as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
- Two Thousand Women as Mrs. Burtshaw
1942
- Went the Day Well? as Ivy
- The Next of Kin as ATS drover with puncture
- The Foreman Went to France as Barmaid
- The Big Blockade as German barmaid (uncredited)
- The Black Sheep of Whitehall as Joyce
- Go to Blazes as Elsie