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.

Born

May 28, 1911

Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK

Died

Mar 15, 2003

Known For

Acting

Movies

86 acting

0 crew

Popularity

0.8

movie

Known For

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

as Rosie Wrigley

The Lodger

1944

as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

Consuming Passions

1988 • as Mrs. Gordon

★ 8.3

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955 • as Rosie Wrigley

★ 6.5

Home and Away

1956 • as Margie Groves

★ 7.0

movie

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

1966 • as Blanche Hoskins

Conspirator

1949 • as Broaders

★ 5.8

One Good Turn

1955 • as Cook

★ 6.2

The Weaker Sex

1948 • as Mrs. Gaye

★ 6.7

The Nightcomers

1972 • as Mrs. Grose

★ 5.7

The Lodger

1944 • as First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

★ 6.5

Last of the Summer Wine: Big Day at Dream Acres

Last of the Summer Wine: Big Day at Dream Acres

1987 • as Edie Pegden

Last of the Summer Wine: Uncle of the Bride

Last of the Summer Wine: Uncle of the Bride

1986 • as Edie Pegden

A Kind of Loving

1962 • as Mrs. Rothwell

★ 7.1

Tiger by the Tail

1955 • as Mary

★ 6.3

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

1952 • as Alice Crouch

★ 8.0

My Brother Jonathan

1948 • as Ada

★ 6.8

Romeo and Juliet

1967 • as Nurse

Wide-Eyed and Legless

1993 • as Deric's Mother

★ 6.5

Went the Day Well?

1942 • as Ivy

★ 7.1

Term of Trial

1962 • as Mrs. Taylor

★ 6.1

The Entertainer

1960 • as Mrs. Ada Lapford

★ 6.2

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

1947 • as Maud

★ 5.3

Further Up the Creek

1958 • as Mrs. Galloway

★ 6.6

The Villa Maroc

1972 • as Doris

Rattle of a Simple Man

1964 • as Mrs. Winthram

★ 5.7

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942 • as Joyce

★ 8.2

Some Will, Some Won't

1970 • as Agnes Russell

★ 5.2

Corridor of Mirrors

1948 • as Visitor in Tussauds

★ 6.0

The Magic Box

1952 • as Doctor's Housekeeper

★ 6.5

The Magnet

1950 • as Nanny's friend

★ 6.4

Once a Jolly Swagman

1949 • as Ma Fox

★ 5.8

Pat and Margaret

1994 • as Jim's Mother

★ 7.7

Simon and Laura

1955 • as Jessie

★ 5.9

A Day to Remember

1953 • as Mrs. Trott

★ 7.4

The Good Companions

1957 • as Mrs Oakroyd

★ 7.0

The Next of Kin

1942 • as ATS drover with puncture

★ 5.0

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

1990 • as Old Betsy

Women Without Men

1956 • as Gran' Rafferty

★ 7.5

Boys in Brown

1949 • as Mrs. Knowles

★ 6.2

Sailor Beware

1956 • as Mrs Lack

★ 7.5

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

1949 • as Mrs. Bates

★ 4.9

For Better, for Worse

1954 • as Mrs. Doyle

★ 5.8

Lost for Words

1999 • as Annie Longden

★ 6.5

Intensive Care

1982 • as Aunty Kitty

★ 9.0

The Tailor of Gloucester

1989 • as Mrs. Speck

The Foreman Went to France

1942 • as Barmaid

★ 6.6

The Long Memory

1953 • as Mrs Pewsey

★ 6.7

Emergency Call

1952 • as Mrs. Cornelius

★ 6.7

The Cure for Love

1949 • as Mrs. Dorbell

★ 7.0

Lost

1956 • as Kelly's landlady

★ 6.8

The Galloping Major

1951 • as Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)

★ 6.1

Memento Mori

1992 • as Jean Taylor

★ 6.3

Turn the Key Softly

1953 • as Mrs. Rowan, landlady

★ 6.3

movie

Don't Blame the Stork

1954 • as Agnes O'Connor

★ 9.0

Street Corner

1953 • as Mrs. Perkins

★ 5.5

Personal Affair

1953 • as Mrs. Usher

★ 6.2

Background

1953 • as Mrs. Humphries

★ 7.0

The Love Match

1955 • as Sal Brown

★ 7.7

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

1978 • as Mrs. Hopkins

★ 10.0

Portrait from Life

1948 • as Mrs. Skinner

★ 6.3

Blonde Bait

1956 • as 'Granny' Ramsey

★ 5.8

Madness of the Heart

1949 • as Rosa

★ 6.0

Now and Forever

1956 • as Maggie the Maid (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Afternoon Off

1979 • as Mrs Beevers

The Crowded Day

1954 • as Customer

★ 5.8

The Big Frame

1952 • as Hotel Maid

★ 4.5

The Blind Goddess

1948 • as Derek's Charwoman

★ 5.8

These Dangerous Years

1957 • as Mrs. Ada Larkin

★ 7.3

Maytime in Mayfair

1949 • as Janet

★ 6.5

The Big Blockade

1942 • as German barmaid (uncredited)

★ 6.7

Bitter Harvest

1963 • as Mrs. Jessup (uncredited)

★ 6.2

Thora Hird Tribute

2003 • as Self, Various Characters (archive footage)

movie

Julie and the Cadillacs

1999 • as Julie's grandmother

★ 8.0

The Mayor's Charity

1977 • as Olive Major

★ 9.0

Over the Odds

1961 • as Mrs Carter

★ 10.0

Fools Rush In

1949 • as Mrs. Coot

★ 6.7

Once a Sinner

1950 • as Mrs. James

★ 7.1

movie

A Clean Sweep

1958 • as Vera Watson

Talking Heads 2

1998

★ 8.5

Say Something Happened

1982 • as Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

The Fox Trot

1971 • as Gwen

★ 9.0

Two Thousand Women

1944 • as Mrs. Burtshaw

★ 6.9

Go to Blazes

1942 • as Elsie

★ 9.0

Talking Heads

1988

★ 5.0

The Great Game

1953 • as Miss Rawlings

★ 7.3

Emma and Grandpa

1983 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 7.0

The Frightened Man

1952 • as Vera

★ 6.5