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