Thora Hird

Thora Hird

Birthday: 1911-05-28
Deathday: 2003-03-15
Place of birth: Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
Also know 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.

Filmography

Went the Day Well?

1942

As Ivy

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

As Rosie Wrigley

Corridor of Mirrors

1948

As Visitor in Tussauds

A Kind of Loving

1962

As Mrs. Rothwell

Madness of the Heart

1949

As Rosa

The Nightcomers

1972

As Mrs. Grose

For Better, for Worse

1954

As Mrs. Doyle

One Good Turn

1955

As Cook

The Big Frame

1952

As Hotel Maid

The Magnet

1950

As Nanny's friend

The Entertainer

1960

As Mrs. Ada Lapford

The Long Memory

1953

As Mrs Pewsey

Conspirator

1949

As Broaders

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

1952

As Alice Crouch

Term of Trial

1962

As Mrs. Taylor

Once a Jolly Swagman

1949

As Ma Fox

Personal Affair

1953

As Mrs. Usher

Turn the Key Softly

1953

As Mrs. Rowan, landlady

Lost

1956

As Kelly's landlady

Blonde Bait

1956

As 'Granny' Ramsey

Some Will, Some Won't

1970

As Agnes Russell

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942

As Joyce

Boys in Brown

1949

As Mrs. Knowles

Consuming Passions

1988

As Mrs. Gordon

Further Up the Creek

1958

As Mrs. Galloway

Emergency Call

1952

As Mrs. Cornelius

The Love Match

1955

As Sal Brown

Pat and Margaret

1994

As Jim's Mother

A Day to Remember

1953

As Mrs. Trott

Lost for Words

1999

As Annie Longden

Women Without Men

1956

As Gran' Rafferty

Once a Sinner

1950

As Mrs. James

Fools Rush In

1949

As Mrs. Coot

Portrait from Life

1948

As Mrs. Skinner

Go to Blazes

1942

As Elsie

Rattle of a Simple Man

1964

As Mrs. Winthram

These Dangerous Years

1957

As Mrs. Ada Larkin

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

1949

As Mrs. Bates

The Great Game

1953

As Miss Rawlings

My Brother Jonathan

1948

As Ada

Intensive Care

1982

As Aunty Kitty

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

1978

As Mrs. Hopkins

Afternoon Off

1979

As Mrs Beevers

Talking Heads

1988

As

Talking Heads 2

1998

As

Julie and the Cadillacs

1999

As Julie's grandmother

Simon and Laura

1955

As Jessie

Background

1953

As Mrs. Humphries

Don't Blame the Stork

1954

As Agnes O'Connor

Bitter Harvest

1963

As Mrs. Jessup

The Next of Kin

1942

As ATS drover with puncture

The Blind Goddess

1948

As Derek's Charwoman

Wide-Eyed and Legless

1993

As Deric's Mother

Street Corner

1953

As Mrs. Perkins

The Lodger

1944

As First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

Two Thousand Women

1944

As Mrs. Burtshaw

The Magic Box

1952

As Doctor's Housekeeper

The Good Companions

1957

As Mrs Oakroyd

Sailor Beware

1956

As Mrs Lack

Home and Away

1956

As Margie Groves

The Weaker Sex

1948

As Mrs. Gaye

Tiger by the Tail

1955

As Mary

Maytime in Mayfair

1949

As Janet

The Villa Maroc

1972

As Doris

The Fox Trot

1971

As Gwen

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

1947

As Maud

The Frightened Man

1952

As Vera

Memento Mori

1992

As Jean Taylor

The Cure for Love

1949

As Mrs. Dorbell

The Foreman Went to France

1942

As Barmaid

A Clean Sweep

1958

As Vera Watson

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

As Old Betsy

The Mayor's Charity

1977

As Olive Major

Now and Forever

1956

As Maggie the Maid (uncredited)

Romeo and Juliet

1967

As Nurse

The Tailor of Gloucester

1989

As Mrs. Speck

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

1966

As Blanche Hoskins