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