Thora Hird

Actor May 28 (died age 91) Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK 1942–2003 (61 year career)

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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

Film

The Quatermass Xperiment

Rosie Wrigley

Film

Went the Day Well?

Ivy

Film

The Lodger

First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

Film

A Kind of Loving

Mrs. Rothwell

Film

Last of the Summer Wine

Edie

Film

The Entertainer

Mrs. Ada Lapford

Film

The Nightcomers

Mrs. Grose

Film

The Magic Box

Doctor's Housekeeper

Filmography

Acting (115)

Movies (84)

Thora Hird Tribute

2003

as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)

Lost for Words

1999

as Annie Longden

7.0

Julie and the Cadillacs

1999

as Julie's grandmother

Talking Heads 2

Pat and Margaret

as Jim's Mother

Wide-Eyed and Legless

as Deric's Mother

Memento Mori

as Jean Taylor

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990

as Old Betsy

The Tailor of Gloucester

1989

as Mrs. Speck

Consuming Passions

as Mrs. Gordon

Talking Heads

Emma and Grandpa

as Narrator (voice)

Say Something Happened

1982

as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

Intensive Care

1982

as Aunty Kitty

Afternoon Off

1979

as Mrs Beevers

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

1978

as Mrs. Hopkins

The Mayor's Charity

1977

as Olive Major

The Villa Maroc

1972

as Doris

The Nightcomers

1972

as Mrs. Grose

5.6

The Fox Trot

1971

as Gwen

Some Will, Some Won't

1970

as Agnes Russell

4.8

Romeo and Juliet

1967

as Nurse

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

1966

as Blanche Hoskins

Rattle of a Simple Man

as Mrs. Winthram

Bitter Harvest

as Mrs. Jessup

Term of Trial

as Mrs. Taylor

A Kind of Loving

as Mrs. Rothwell

Over the Odds

as Mrs Carter

The Entertainer

1960

as Mrs. Ada Lapford

6.2

A Clean Sweep

1958

as Vera Watson

Further Up the Creek

1958

as Mrs. Galloway

6.0

The Good Companions

1957

as Mrs Oakroyd

These Dangerous Years

as Mrs. Ada Larkin

Lost

as Kelly's landlady

Home and Away

as Margie Groves

Sailor Beware

as Mrs Lack

Women Without Men

as Gran' Rafferty

Now and Forever

as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)

7.0

Blonde Bait

1956

as 'Granny' Ramsey

4.8

The Quatermass Xperiment

as Rosie Wrigley

Simon and Laura

as Jessie

Tiger by the Tail

as Mary

One Good Turn

as Cook

The Love Match

as Sal Brown

The Crowded Day

as Customer

For Better, for Worse

1954

as Mrs. Doyle

5.6

Don't Blame the Stork

1954

as Agnes O'Connor

The Long Memory

as Mrs Pewsey

The Great Game

as Miss Rawlings

Street Corner

as Mrs. Perkins

Personal Affair

as Mrs. Usher

A Day to Remember

as Mrs. Trott

Background

as Mrs. Humphries

Turn the Key Softly

as Mrs. Rowan, landlady

Emergency Call

as Mrs. Cornelius

The Big Frame

as Hotel Maid

The Magic Box

as Doctor's Housekeeper

6.4

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

as Alice Crouch

The Frightened Man

as Vera

The Galloping Major

as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)

Once a Sinner

as Mrs. James

The Magnet

as Nanny's friend

Maytime in Mayfair

as Janet

Madness of the Heart

as Rosa

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

as Mrs. Bates

Conspirator

as Broaders

The Cure for Love

as Mrs. Dorbell

Boys in Brown

as Mrs. Knowles

Fools Rush In

as Mrs. Coot

Once a Jolly Swagman

as Ma Fox

Corridor of Mirrors

as Visitor in Tussauds

Portrait from Life

as Mrs. Skinner

My Brother Jonathan

as Ada

The Blind Goddess

as Derek's Charwoman

The Weaker Sex

as Mrs. Gaye

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

1947

as Maud

4.9

The Lodger

1944

as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

Two Thousand Women

as Mrs. Burtshaw

The Next of Kin

as ATS drover with puncture

Went the Day Well?

as Ivy

The Big Blockade

as German barmaid (uncredited)

6.0

The Foreman Went to France

as Barmaid

Go to Blazes

as Elsie

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942

as Joyce

7.8

Television (31)

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

2000

Parkinson

1998

as Self

dinnerladies

as Enid

Queen's Nose

as Postmistress

Goggle Eyes

as Mrs Harrington

Heartbeat

as Hannah Stockdale

Perfect Scoundrels

as Martha

Talking Heads

as Doris

Screen Two

as Jean Taylor

ITV Christmas Comedy

Objects of Affection

as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

7.0

Hallelujah!

1981

as Captain Emily Ridley

6.0

Blankety Blank

1979

4.6

All Creatures Great and Small

as Mrs. Clarke

Tell Me Another

as Herself

Last of the Summer Wine

1973

as Edie

7.1

Last of the Summer Wine

as Edie

Play for Today

as Doris

In Loving Memory

as Ivy Unsworth

The First Lady

BBC Play of the Month

as Nurse

The Wednesday Play

as Blanche Hoskins

Festival

as Mrs. Baines

Meet the Wife

Z-Cars

Drama 61-67

as Mrs. Hope

Armchair Theatre

1956

as Momma Brodsky

5.8

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Ada

Dixon of Dock Green

as Alice Leggett

The BAFTA Awards

as Self - Winner

Esther

as Self