Thora Hird
Known for Acting · 115 credits
- Born
- 1911-05-28
- Died
- 2003-03-15
- Place of birth
- Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Dame Thora Hird
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.
Known For
TV Shows (31)
Play for Today
1970
as Olive Major / Aunt KItty / Doris
Heartbeat
1992
as Hannah Stockdale
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Blanche Hoskins
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Clare Soppitt / Nurse
Z-Cars
1962
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
as Edie
Screen Two
1985
as Jean Taylor
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955
as Ada
All Creatures Great and Small
1978
as Mrs. Clarke
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Blankety Blank
1979
Drama 61-67
1961
as Mrs. Hope
Festival
1963
as Mrs. Baines
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
as Alice Leggett
The BAFTA Awards
1949
as Self - Winner
Screen One
1989
as Deric's Mother / Jim's Mother
dinnerladies
1998
as Enid
The Queen's Nose
1995
as Postmistress
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Martha
In Loving Memory
1969
as Ivy Unsworth
Hallelujah!
1981
as Captain Emily Ridley
The First Lady
1968
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Momma Brodsky / Miss Ogilvie
Talking Heads
1988
as Violet / Doris
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Objects of Affection
1982
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
ITV Christmas Comedy
1983
Tell Me Another
1976
as Herself
Goggle Eyes
1993
as Mrs Harrington
Meet the Wife
1963
Esther
as Self
Movies (84)
The Nightcomers
1972
as Mrs. Grose
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
as Rosie Wrigley
The Lodger
1944
as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
The Entertainer
1960
as Mrs. Ada Lapford
The Next of Kin
1942
as ATS drover with puncture
For Better, for Worse
1954
as Mrs. Doyle
Corridor of Mirrors
1948
as Visitor in Tussauds
Consuming Passions
1988
as Mrs. Gordon
The Foreman Went to France
1942
as Barmaid
Intensive Care
1982
as Aunty Kitty
The Magic Box
1952
as Doctor's Housekeeper
Conspirator
1949
as Broaders
Memento Mori
1992
as Jean Taylor
Went the Day Well?
1942
as Ivy
The Galloping Major
1951
as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
The Magnet
1950
as Nanny's friend
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Old Betsy
One Good Turn
1955
as Cook
Further Up the Creek
1958
as Mrs. Galloway
Lost
1956
as Kelly's landlady
Afternoon Off
1979
as Mrs Beevers
Term of Trial
1962
as Mrs. Taylor
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as Mrs. Speck
The Big Frame
1952
as Hotel Maid
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
1947
as Maud
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952
as Alice Crouch
Sailor Beware
1956
as Mrs Lack
These Dangerous Years
1957
as Mrs. Ada Larkin
Madness of the Heart
1949
as Rosa
Bitter Harvest
1963
as Mrs. Jessup
Simon and Laura
1955
as Jessie
Emergency Call
1952
as Mrs. Cornelius
Home and Away
1956
as Margie Groves
Street Corner
1953
as Mrs. Perkins
Portrait from Life
1948
as Mrs. Skinner
The Long Memory
1953
as Mrs Pewsey
The Crowded Day
1954
as Customer
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949
as Ma Fox
Romeo and Juliet
1967
as Nurse
Lost for Words
1999
as Annie Longden
The Love Match
1955
as Sal Brown
Personal Affair
1953
as Mrs. Usher
A Day to Remember
1953
as Mrs. Trott
Maytime in Mayfair
1949
as Janet
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
as Joyce
Say Something Happened
1982
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
The Great Game
1953
as Miss Rawlings
Some Will, Some Won't
1970
as Agnes Russell
The Good Companions
1957
as Mrs Oakroyd
Background
1953
as Mrs. Humphries
Boys in Brown
1949
as Mrs. Knowles
My Brother Jonathan
1948
as Ada
Pat and Margaret
1994
as Jim's Mother
Now and Forever
1956
as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Two Thousand Women
1944
as Mrs. Burtshaw
Blonde Bait
1956
as 'Granny' Ramsey
The Fox Trot
1971
as Gwen
Don't Blame the Stork
1954
as Agnes O'Connor
Women Without Men
1956
as Gran' Rafferty
A Kind of Loving
1962
as Mrs. Rothwell
Tiger by the Tail
1955
as Mary
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949
as Mrs. Bates
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
as Mrs. Hopkins
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
as Deric's Mother
Fools Rush In
1949
as Mrs. Coot
A Clean Sweep
1958
as Vera Watson
Julie and the Cadillacs
1999
as Julie's grandmother
The Cure for Love
1949
as Mrs. Dorbell
The Frightened Man
1952
as Vera
The Blind Goddess
1948
as Derek's Charwoman
The Mayor's Charity
1977
as Olive Major
The Big Blockade
1942
as German barmaid (uncredited)
Talking Heads
1988
Over the Odds
1961
as Mrs Carter
The Weaker Sex
1948
as Mrs. Gaye
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
Go to Blazes
1942
as Elsie
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
1966
as Blanche Hoskins
Once a Sinner
1950
as Mrs. James
Rattle of a Simple Man
1964
as Mrs. Winthram
Turn the Key Softly
1953
as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Talking Heads 2
1998
Emma and Grandpa
1983
as Narrator (voice)
The Villa Maroc
1972
as Doris
About Thora Hird
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. With 115 credits spanning from 1942 to 2003, Thora Hird has appeared in 84 films and 31 TV shows.
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Most Popular Thora Hird Movies
- The Nightcomers (1972) — as Mrs. Grose
- The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) — as Rosie Wrigley
- The Lodger (1944) — as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
- The Entertainer (1960) — as Mrs. Ada Lapford
- The Next of Kin (1942) — as ATS drover with puncture
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