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