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.

Birthday

May 28, 1911

Place of birth

Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK

Deathday

Mar 15, 2003

Also known as

Dame Thora Hird

Credited in

As cast

Went the Day Well?
As Ivy
The Quatermass Xperiment
As Rosie Wrigley
Corridor of Mirrors
As Visitor in Tussauds
A Kind of Loving
As Mrs. Rothwell
Madness of the Heart
As Rosa
The Nightcomers
As Mrs. Grose
For Better, for Worse
As Mrs. Doyle
One Good Turn
As Cook
The Big Frame
As Hotel Maid
The Magnet
As Nanny's friend
The Entertainer
As Mrs. Ada Lapford
The Long Memory
As Mrs Pewsey
Conspirator
As Broaders
Term of Trial
As Mrs. Taylor
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
As Alice Crouch
Once a Jolly Swagman
As Ma Fox
Personal Affair
As Mrs. Usher
Turn the Key Softly
As Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Lost
As Kelly's landlady
Blonde Bait
As 'Granny' Ramsey
Some Will, Some Won't
As Agnes Russell
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
As Joyce
Boys in Brown
As Mrs. Knowles
Now and Forever
As Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Further Up the Creek
As Mrs. Galloway
Consuming Passions
As Mrs. Gordon
Emergency Call
As Mrs. Cornelius
The Love Match
As Sal Brown
Pat and Margaret
As Jim's Mother
A Day to Remember
As Mrs. Trott
Lost for Words
As Annie Longden
Women Without Men
As Gran' Rafferty
Once a Sinner
As Mrs. James
Portrait from Life
As Mrs. Skinner
Rattle of a Simple Man
As Mrs. Winthram
These Dangerous Years
As Mrs. Ada Larkin
Go to Blazes
As Elsie
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
As Mrs. Bates
The Great Game
As Miss Rawlings
The Tailor of Gloucester
As Mrs. Speck
Intensive Care
As Aunty Kitty
My Brother Jonathan
As Ada
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
No picture available
As Blanche Hoskins
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
As Mrs. Hopkins
Afternoon Off
As Mrs Beevers
Fools Rush In
As Mrs. Coot
Talking Heads
As
Talking Heads 2
As
Julie and the Cadillacs
No picture available
As Julie's grandmother
Simon and Laura
As Jessie
Background
As Mrs. Humphries
Emma and Grandpa
No picture available
As Narrator (UK)
Don't Blame the Stork
No picture available
As Agnes O'Connor
The Blind Goddess
As Derek's Charwoman
The Next of Kin
As ATS drover with puncture
Bitter Harvest
As Mrs. Jessup
Romeo and Juliet
As Nurse
Wide-Eyed and Legless
As Deric's Mother
Street Corner
As Mrs. Perkins
The Lodger
As First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
Two Thousand Women
As Mrs. Burtshaw
The Magic Box
As Doctor's Housekeeper
Sailor Beware
As Mrs Lack
The Good Companions
As Mrs Oakroyd
Home and Away
As Margie Groves
The Weaker Sex
As Mrs. Gaye
Tiger by the Tail
As Mary
Maytime in Mayfair
As Janet
The Villa Maroc
As Doris
The Fox Trot
As Gwen
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
As Maud
The Frightened Man
As Vera
Memento Mori
As Jean Taylor
The Cure for Love
As Mrs. Dorbell
The Foreman Went to France
As Barmaid
A Clean Sweep
No picture available
As Vera Watson
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
As Old Betsy
The Mayor's Charity
As Olive Major
Say Something Happened
As Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
The Galloping Major
As Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
Over the Odds
As Mrs Carter
Thora Hird Tribute
No picture available
As Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
The Crowded Day
As Customer