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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK, 1911-05-28

Died: 2003-03-15

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	Go to Blazes	Elsie	100
2	1942	The Black Sheep of Whitehall	Joyce	78
3	1942	The Next of Kin	ATS drover with puncture	57
4	1942	The Foreman Went to France	Barmaid	66
5	1942	Went the Day Well?	Ivy	72
6	1944	The Lodger	First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)	63
7	1944	Two Thousand Women	Mrs. Burtshaw	69
8	1947	The Courtneys of Curzon Street	Maud	49
9	1948	My Brother Jonathan	Ada	66
10	1948	Corridor of Mirrors	Visitor in Tussauds	57
11	1948	The Blind Goddess	Derek's Charwoman	56
12	1948	The Weaker Sex	Mrs. Gaye	60
13	1948	Portrait from Life	Mrs. Skinner	59
14	1949	Once a Jolly Swagman	Ma Fox	54
15	1949	A Boy, a Girl and a Bike	Mrs. Bates	49
16	1949	Fools Rush In	Mrs. Coot	60
17	1949	Maytime in Mayfair	Janet	53
18	1949	Conspirator	Broaders	59
19	1949	Boys in Brown	Mrs. Knowles	65
20	1949	Madness of the Heart	Rosa	59
21	1949	The Cure for Love	Mrs. Dorbell	0
22	1950	Once a Sinner	Mrs. James	66
23	1950	The Magnet	Nanny's friend	63
24	1951	The Galloping Major	Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)	60
25	1952	The Magic Box	Doctor's Housekeeper	63
26	1952	The Frightened Man	Vera	62
27	1952	Emergency Call	Mrs. Cornelius	65
28	1952	Time, Gentlemen, Please!	Alice Crouch	80
29	1952	The Big Frame	Hotel Maid	38
30	1953	The Great Game	Miss Rawlings	60
31	1953	The Long Memory	Mrs Pewsey	66
32	1953	Street Corner	Mrs. Perkins	58
33	1953	Turn the Key Softly	Mrs. Rowan, landlady	62
34	1953	Personal Affair	Mrs. Usher	62
35	1953	Background	Mrs. Humphries	60
36	1953	A Day to Remember	Mrs. Trott	71
37	1954	Don't Blame the Stork	Agnes O'Connor	0
38	1954	For Better, for Worse	Mrs. Doyle	56
39	1955	One Good Turn	Cook	61
40	1955	The Love Match	Sal Brown	78
41	1955	The Quatermass Xperiment	Rosie Wrigley	66
42	1955	Tiger by the Tail	Mary	56
43	1955	Simon and Laura	Jessie	56
44	1956	Lost	Kelly's landlady	70
45	1956	Blonde Bait	'Granny' Ramsey	48
46	1956	Women Without Men	Gran' Rafferty	60
47	1956	Sailor Beware	Mrs Lack	70
48	1956	Home and Away	Margie Groves	70
49	1956	Now and Forever	Maggie the Maid (uncredited)	70
50	1957	The Good Companions	Mrs Oakroyd	0
51	1957	These Dangerous Years	Mrs. Ada Larkin	60
52	1958	A Clean Sweep	Vera Watson	0
53	1958	Further Up the Creek	Mrs. Galloway	60
54	1960	The Entertainer	Mrs. Ada Lapford	62
55	1961	Over the Odds	Mrs Carter	0
56	1962	A Kind of Loving	Mrs. Rothwell	70
57	1962	Term of Trial	Mrs. Taylor	59
58	1963	Bitter Harvest	Mrs. Jessup	62
59	1964	Rattle of a Simple Man	Mrs. Winthram	54
60	1966	Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!	Blanche Hoskins	0
61	1967	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	0
62	1970	Some Will, Some Won't	Agnes Russell	48
63	1971	The Fox Trot	Gwen	0
64	1972	The Nightcomers	Mrs. Grose	57
65	1972	The Villa Maroc	Doris	0
66	1977	The Mayor's Charity	Olive Major	0
67	1978	Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Hopkins	0
68	1979	Afternoon Off	Mrs Beevers	0
69	1982	Intensive Care	Aunty Kitty	0
70	1982	Say Something Happened	Elizabeth Mary Rhodes	0
71	1988	Consuming Passions	Mrs. Gordon	80
72	1988	Talking Heads		50
73	1989	The Tailor of Gloucester	Mrs. Speck	0
74	1990	The Tale of Little Pig Robinson	Old Betsy	0
75	1992	Memento Mori	Jean Taylor	62
76	1993	Wide-Eyed and Legless	Deric's Mother	60
77	1994	Pat and Margaret	Jim's Mother	75
78	1998	Talking Heads 2		70
79	1999	Julie and the Cadillacs	Julie's grandmother	0
80	1999	Lost for Words	Annie Longden	70
81		Emma and Grandpa	Narrator (UK)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The BAFTA Awards	Self - Winner	100
2	1955	Dixon of Dock Green	Alice Leggett	53
3	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Ada	61
4	1962	Z-Cars		70
5	1963	Meet the Wife		60
6	1964	The Wednesday Play	Blanche Hoskins	45
7	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Clare Soppitt	50
8	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Nurse	50
9	1968	The First Lady		0
10	1969	In Loving Memory	Ivy Unsworth	68
11	1970	Play for Today	Olive Major	63
12	1970	Play for Today	Doris	63
13	1970	Play for Today	Aunt KItty	63
14	1973	Last of the Summer Wine	Edie	71
15	1976	Tell Me Another	Herself	80
16	1978	All Creatures Great and Small	Mrs. Clarke	77
17	1979	Blankety Blank		46
18	1981	Hallelujah!	Captain Emily Ridley	60
19	1982	Objects of Affection	Elizabeth Mary Rhodes	70
20	1983	ITV Christmas Comedy		0
21	1985	Screen Two	Jean Taylor	68
22	1988	Talking Heads	Doris	62
23	1988	Talking Heads	Violet	62
24	1990	Perfect Scoundrels	Martha	60
25	1992	Heartbeat	Hannah Stockdale	71
26	1993	Goggle Eyes	Mrs Harrington	0
27	1995	Queen's Nose	Postmistress	70
28	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
29	1998	dinnerladies	Enid	74
30	2000	The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything		0