
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 (voice)
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

Self, Various Characters (archive footage)
Thora Hird Tribute

Customer
The Crowded Day
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
83
Gender
Female
Birthday
1911-05-28
Place of Birth
Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
Dame Thora Hird