Actor
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. ...

Known For
Acting
1999 -- Lost for Words | Annie Longden
1999 -- Julie and the Cadillacs | Julie's grandmother
1998 -- Talking Heads 2 |
1994 -- Pat and Margaret | Jim's Mother
1993 -- Wide-Eyed and Legless | Deric's Mother
1992 -- Memento Mori | Jean Taylor
1990 -- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Old Betsy
1989 -- The Tailor of Gloucester | Mrs. Speck
1988 -- Talking Heads |
1988 -- Consuming Passions | Mrs. Gordon
1982 -- Say Something Happened | Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
1982 -- Intensive Care | Aunty Kitty
1979 -- Afternoon Off | Mrs Beevers
1978 -- Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Hopkins
1977 -- The Mayor's Charity | Olive Major
1972 -- The Villa Maroc | Doris
1972 -- The Nightcomers | Mrs. Grose
1971 -- The Fox Trot | Gwen
1970 -- Some Will, Some Won't | Agnes Russell
1967 -- Romeo and Juliet | Nurse
1966 -- Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am! | Blanche Hoskins
1964 -- Rattle of a Simple Man | Mrs. Winthram
1963 -- Bitter Harvest | Mrs. Jessup
1962 -- Term of Trial | Mrs. Taylor
1962 -- A Kind of Loving | Mrs. Rothwell
1961 -- Over the Odds | Mrs Carter
1960 -- The Entertainer | Mrs. Ada Lapford
1958 -- Further Up the Creek | Mrs. Galloway
1958 -- A Clean Sweep | Vera Watson
1957 -- These Dangerous Years | Mrs. Ada Larkin
1957 -- The Good Companions | Mrs Oakroyd
1956 -- Now and Forever | Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
1956 -- Home and Away | Margie Groves
1956 -- Sailor Beware | Mrs Lack
1956 -- Women Without Men | Gran' Rafferty
1956 -- Blonde Bait | 'Granny' Ramsey
1956 -- Lost | Kelly's landlady
1955 -- Simon and Laura | Jessie
1955 -- Tiger by the Tail | Mary
1955 -- The Quatermass Xperiment | Rosie Wrigley
1955 -- The Love Match | Sal Brown
1955 -- One Good Turn | Cook
1954 -- For Better, for Worse | Mrs. Doyle
1954 -- Don't Blame the Stork | Agnes O'Connor
1953 -- A Day to Remember | Mrs. Trott
1953 -- Background | Mrs. Humphries
1953 -- Personal Affair | Mrs. Usher
1953 -- Turn the Key Softly | Mrs. Rowan, landlady
1953 -- Street Corner | Mrs. Perkins
1953 -- The Long Memory | Mrs Pewsey
1953 -- The Great Game | Miss Rawlings
1952 -- The Big Frame | Hotel Maid
1952 -- Time, Gentlemen, Please! | Alice Crouch
1952 -- Emergency Call | Mrs. Cornelius
1952 -- The Frightened Man | Vera
1952 -- The Magic Box | Doctor's Housekeeper
1951 -- The Galloping Major | Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
1950 -- The Magnet | Nanny's friend
1950 -- Once a Sinner | Mrs. James
1949 -- The Cure for Love | Mrs. Dorbell
1949 -- Madness of the Heart | Rosa
1949 -- Boys in Brown | Mrs. Knowles
1949 -- Conspirator | Broaders
1949 -- Maytime in Mayfair | Janet
1949 -- Fools Rush In | Mrs. Coot
1949 -- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike | Mrs. Bates
1949 -- Once a Jolly Swagman | Ma Fox
1948 -- Portrait from Life | Mrs. Skinner
1948 -- The Weaker Sex | Mrs. Gaye
1948 -- The Blind Goddess | Derek's Charwoman
1948 -- Corridor of Mirrors | Visitor in Tussauds
1948 -- My Brother Jonathan | Ada
1947 -- The Courtneys of Curzon Street | Maud
1944 -- Two Thousand Women | Mrs. Burtshaw
1944 -- The Lodger | First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
1942 -- Went the Day Well? | Ivy
1942 -- The Foreman Went to France | Barmaid
1942 -- The Next of Kin | ATS drover with puncture
1942 -- The Black Sheep of Whitehall | Joyce
1942 -- Go to Blazes | Elsie
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