Birthday
1911/05/28
Day of death
2003/03/15 (91 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
Also know as
Dame Thora Hird
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.
(1942) Went the Day Well?
as Ivy
(1955) The Quatermass Xperiment
as Rosie Wrigley
(1948) Corridor of Mirrors
as Visitor in Tussauds
(1962) A Kind of Loving
as Mrs. Rothwell
(1949) Madness of the Heart
as Rosa
(1972) The Nightcomers
as Mrs. Grose
(1954) For Better, for Worse
as Mrs. Doyle
(1955) One Good Turn
as Cook
(1952) The Big Frame
as Hotel Maid
(1950) The Magnet
as Nanny's friend
(1960) The Entertainer
as Mrs. Ada Lapford
(1953) The Long Memory
as Mrs Pewsey
(1949) Conspirator
as Broaders
(1962) Term of Trial
as Mrs. Taylor
(1952) Time, Gentlemen, Please!
as Alice Crouch
(1949) Once a Jolly Swagman
as Ma Fox
(1953) Personal Affair
as Mrs. Usher
(1953) Turn the Key Softly
as Mrs. Rowan, landlady
(1956) Lost
as Kelly's landlady
(1956) Blonde Bait
as 'Granny' Ramsey
(1970) Some Will, Some Won't
as Agnes Russell
(1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Joyce
(1949) Boys in Brown
as Mrs. Knowles
(1956) Now and Forever
as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
(1958) Further Up the Creek
as Mrs. Galloway
(1988) Consuming Passions
as Mrs. Gordon
(1952) Emergency Call
as Mrs. Cornelius
(1955) The Love Match
as Sal Brown
(1994) Pat and Margaret
as Jim's Mother
(1953) A Day to Remember
as Mrs. Trott
(1999) Lost for Words
as Annie Longden
(1956) Women Without Men
as Gran' Rafferty
(1950) Once a Sinner
as Mrs. James
(1948) Portrait from Life
as Mrs. Skinner
(1964) Rattle of a Simple Man
as Mrs. Winthram
(1957) These Dangerous Years
as Mrs. Ada Larkin
(1942) Go to Blazes
as Elsie
(1949) A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
as Mrs. Bates
(1953) The Great Game
as Miss Rawlings
(1989) The Tailor of Gloucester
as Mrs. Speck
(1982) Intensive Care
as Aunty Kitty
(1948) My Brother Jonathan
as Ada
(1966) Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
as Blanche Hoskins
(1978) Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Mrs. Hopkins
(1979) Afternoon Off
as Mrs Beevers
(1949) Fools Rush In
as Mrs. Coot
(1988) Talking Heads
as ---
(1998) Talking Heads 2
as ---
(1999) Julie and the Cadillacs
as Julie's grandmother
(1955) Simon and Laura
as Jessie
(1953) Background
as Mrs. Humphries
Emma and Grandpa
as Narrator (UK)
(1954) Don't Blame the Stork
as Agnes O'Connor
(1948) The Blind Goddess
as Derek's Charwoman
(1942) The Next of Kin
as ATS drover with puncture
(1963) Bitter Harvest
as Mrs. Jessup
(1967) Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
(1993) Wide-Eyed and Legless
as Deric's Mother
(1953) Street Corner
as Mrs. Perkins
(1944) The Lodger
as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
(1944) Two Thousand Women
as Mrs. Burtshaw
(1952) The Magic Box
as Doctor's Housekeeper
(1957) The Good Companions
as Mrs Oakroyd
(1956) Sailor Beware
as Mrs Lack
(1956) Home and Away
as Margie Groves
(1948) The Weaker Sex
as Mrs. Gaye
(1955) Tiger by the Tail
as Mary
(1949) Maytime in Mayfair
as Janet
(1972) The Villa Maroc
as Doris
(1971) The Fox Trot
as Gwen
(1947) The Courtneys of Curzon Street
as Maud
(1952) The Frightened Man
as Vera
(1992) Memento Mori
as Jean Taylor
(1949) The Cure for Love
as Mrs. Dorbell
(1942) The Foreman Went to France
as Barmaid
(1958) A Clean Sweep
as Vera Watson
(1990) The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
as Old Betsy
(1977) The Mayor's Charity
as Olive Major
(1982) Say Something Happened
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
(1951) The Galloping Major
as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
(1961) Over the Odds
as Mrs Carter
(1962) Z-Cars
as ---
(1969) In Loving Memory
as Ivy Unsworth
(1992) Heartbeat
as Hannah Stockdale
(1973) Last of the Summer Wine
as Edie
(1979) Blankety Blank
as ---
(1981) Hallelujah!
as Captain Emily Ridley
(1968) The First Lady
as ---
(1963) Meet the Wife
as ---
(1998) dinnerladies
as Enid
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Ada
(1970) Play for Today
as Olive Major
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Clare Soppitt
(1990) Perfect Scoundrels
as Martha
(1988) Talking Heads
as Violet
(1988) Talking Heads
as Doris
(1983) ITV Christmas Comedy
as ---
(1993) Goggle Eyes
as Mrs Harrington
(1978) All Creatures Great and Small
as Mrs. Clarke
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Nurse
(2000) The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
as ---
(1982) Objects of Affection
as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
(1970) Play for Today
as Aunt KItty
(1970) Play for Today
as Doris
(1955) Dixon of Dock Green
as Alice Leggett
(1973) Last of the Summer Wine
as Herself (archive footage)
(1976) Tell Me Another
as Herself
(1998) Parkinson
as Self
(1985) Screen Two
as Jean Taylor
(1949) The BAFTA Awards
as Self - Winner