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.
Ivy
Went the Day Well?
Rosie Wrigley
The Quatermass Xperiment
Visitor in Tussauds
Corridor of Mirrors
Mrs. Rothwell
A Kind of Loving
Rosa
Madness of the Heart
Mrs. Grose
The Nightcomers
Mrs. Doyle
For Better, for Worse
Cook
One Good Turn
Hotel Maid
The Lost Hours
Nanny's friend
The Magnet
Mrs. Ada Lapford
The Entertainer
Mrs Pewsey
The Long Memory
Broaders
Conspirator
Mrs. Taylor
Term of Trial
Alice Crouch
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Ma Fox
Once a Jolly Swagman
Mrs. Usher
Personal Affair
Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Turn the Key Softly
Kelly's landlady
Lost
'Granny' Ramsey
Blonde Bait
Agnes Russell
Some Will, Some Won't
Joyce
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Mrs. Knowles
Boys in Brown
Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Now and Forever
Mrs. Galloway
Further Up the Creek
Mrs. Gordon
Consuming Passions
Mrs. Cornelius
Emergency Call
Sal Brown
The Love Match
Jim's Mother
Pat and Margaret
Mrs. Trott
A Day to Remember
Annie Longden
Lost for Words
Gran' Rafferty
Women Without Men
Mrs. James
Once a Sinner
Mrs. Skinner
Portrait from Life
Mrs. Winthram
Rattle of a Simple Man
Mrs. Ada Larkin
These Dangerous Years
Elsie
Go to Blazes
Mrs. Bates
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Miss Rawlings
The Great Game
Mrs. Speck
The Tailor of Gloucester
Aunty Kitty
Intensive Care
Ada
My Brother Jonathan
Blanche Hoskins
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
Mrs. Hopkins
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Mrs Beevers
Afternoon Off
Mrs. Coot
Fools Rush In
Talking Heads
Talking Heads 2
Julie's grandmother
Julie and the Cadillacs
Jessie
Simon and Laura
Mrs. Humphries
Background
Narrator (UK)
Emma and Grandpa
Agnes O'Connor
Don't Blame the Stork
Derek's Charwoman
The Blind Goddess
ATS drover with puncture
The Next of Kin
Mrs. Jessup
Bitter Harvest
Nurse
Romeo and Juliet
Deric's Mother
Wide-Eyed and Legless
Mrs. Perkins
Street Corner
First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
The Lodger
Mrs. Burtshaw
Two Thousand Women
Doctor's Housekeeper
The Magic Box
Mrs Oakroyd
The Good Companions
Mrs Lack
Sailor Beware
Margie Groves
Home and Away
Mrs. Gaye
The Weaker Sex
Mary
Tiger by the Tail
Janet
Maytime in Mayfair
Doris
The Villa Maroc
Gwen
The Fox Trot
Maud
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Vera
The Frightened Man
Jean Taylor
Memento Mori
Mrs. Dorbell
The Cure for Love
Barmaid
The Foreman Went to France
Vera Watson
A Clean Sweep
Old Betsy
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Olive Major
The Mayor's Charity
Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
Say Something Happened
Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
The Galloping Major
Mrs Carter
Over the Odds
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
81
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-05-28
Place of Birth
Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
Dame Thora Hird