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

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

Personal Info

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