Thora Hird
Acting • Born 1911-05-28 – Died 2003-03-15
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
117 credits
Went the Day Well?
Movie • 1942
Ivy
The Quatermass Xperiment
Movie • 1955
Rosie Wrigley
Corridor of Mirrors
Movie • 1948
Visitor in Tussauds
A Kind of Loving
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Rothwell
Madness of the Heart
Movie • 1949
Rosa
The Nightcomers
Movie • 1972
Mrs. Grose
For Better, for Worse
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Doyle
One Good Turn
Movie • 1955
Cook
The Big Frame
Movie • 1952
Hotel Maid
The Magnet
Movie • 1950
Nanny's friend
The Entertainer
Movie • 1960
Mrs. Ada Lapford
The Long Memory
Movie • 1953
Mrs Pewsey
Conspirator
Movie • 1949
Broaders
Term of Trial
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Taylor
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Movie • 1952
Alice Crouch
Once a Jolly Swagman
Movie • 1949
Ma Fox
Personal Affair
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Usher
Turn the Key Softly
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Lost
Movie • 1956
Kelly's landlady
Blonde Bait
Movie • 1956
'Granny' Ramsey
Some Will, Some Won't
Movie • 1970
Agnes Russell
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Movie • 1942
Joyce
Boys in Brown
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Knowles
Now and Forever
Movie • 1956
Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Further Up the Creek
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Galloway
Consuming Passions
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Gordon
Emergency Call
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Cornelius
The Love Match
Movie • 1955
Sal Brown
Pat and Margaret
Movie • 1994
Jim's Mother
A Day to Remember
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Trott
Lost for Words
Movie • 1999
Annie Longden
Women Without Men
Movie • 1956
Gran' Rafferty
Once a Sinner
Movie • 1950
Mrs. James
Portrait from Life
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Skinner
Rattle of a Simple Man
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Winthram
These Dangerous Years
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Ada Larkin
Go to Blazes
Movie • 1942
Elsie
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Bates
The Great Game
Movie • 1953
Miss Rawlings
The Tailor of Gloucester
Movie • 1989
Mrs. Speck
Intensive Care
Movie • 1982
Aunty Kitty
My Brother Jonathan
Movie • 1948
Ada
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
Movie • 1966
Blanche Hoskins
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Movie • 1978
Mrs. Hopkins
Afternoon Off
Movie • 1979
Mrs Beevers
Fools Rush In
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Coot
Talking Heads
Movie • 1988
Talking Heads 2
Movie • 1998
Julie and the Cadillacs
Movie • 1999
Julie's grandmother
Simon and Laura
Movie • 1955
Jessie
Background
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Humphries
Emma and Grandpa
Movie • 1983
Narrator (voice)
Don't Blame the Stork
Movie • 1954
Agnes O'Connor
The Next of Kin
Movie • 1942
ATS drover with puncture
The Blind Goddess
Movie • 1948
Derek's Charwoman
Bitter Harvest
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Jessup
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1967
Nurse
Wide-Eyed and Legless
Movie • 1993
Deric's Mother
Street Corner
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Perkins
The Lodger
Movie • 1944
First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
Two Thousand Women
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Burtshaw
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
Doctor's Housekeeper
Sailor Beware
Movie • 1956
Mrs Lack
The Good Companions
Movie • 1957
Mrs Oakroyd
Home and Away
Movie • 1956
Margie Groves
The Weaker Sex
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Gaye
Tiger by the Tail
Movie • 1955
Mary
Maytime in Mayfair
Movie • 1949
Janet
The Villa Maroc
Movie • 1972
Doris
The Fox Trot
Movie • 1971
Gwen
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Movie • 1947
Maud
The Frightened Man
Movie • 1952
Vera
Memento Mori
Movie • 1992
Jean Taylor
The Cure for Love
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Dorbell
The Foreman Went to France
Movie • 1942
Barmaid
A Clean Sweep
Movie • 1958
Vera Watson
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Movie • 1990
Old Betsy
The Mayor's Charity
Movie • 1977
Olive Major
Say Something Happened
Movie • 1982
Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
The Galloping Major
Movie • 1951
Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
Over the Odds
Movie • 1961
Mrs Carter
Thora Hird Tribute
Movie • 2003
Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
The Crowded Day
Movie • 1954
Customer
The Big Blockade
Movie • 1942
German barmaid (uncredited)
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
In Loving Memory
TV • 1969
Ivy Unsworth
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Hannah Stockdale
Last of the Summer Wine
TV • 1973
Edie
Blankety Blank
TV • 1979
Hallelujah!
TV • 1981
Captain Emily Ridley
The First Lady
TV • 1968
Meet the Wife
TV • 1963
dinnerladies
TV • 1998
Enid
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1955
Ada
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Olive Major
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Clare Soppitt
Perfect Scoundrels
TV • 1990
Martha
Talking Heads
TV • 1988
Doris
Talking Heads
TV • 1988
Violet
ITV Christmas Comedy
TV • 1983
Goggle Eyes
TV • 1993
Mrs Harrington
All Creatures Great and Small
TV • 1978
Mrs. Clarke
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Nurse
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV • 2000
Objects of Affection
TV • 1982
Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Doris
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Aunt KItty
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Alice Leggett
Tell Me Another
TV • 1976
Herself
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Jean Taylor
The BAFTA Awards
TV • 1949
Self - Winner
Queen's Nose
TV • 1995
Postmistress
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Blanche Hoskins
Festival
TV • 1963
Mrs. Baines
Esther
TV
Self
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Mrs. Hope