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.
Movies
Lost for Words
Annie Longden
Julie and the Cadillacs
Julie's grandmother
Talking Heads 2
Pat and Margaret
Jim's Mother
Wide-Eyed and Legless
Deric's Mother
Memento Mori
Jean Taylor
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Old Betsy
The Tailor of Gloucester
Mrs. Speck
Talking Heads
Consuming Passions
Mrs. Gordon
Emma and Grandpa
Narrator (UK)
Say Something Happened
Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
Intensive Care
Aunty Kitty
Afternoon Off
Mrs Beevers
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Hopkins
The Mayor's Charity
Olive Major
The Villa Maroc
Doris
The Nightcomers
Mrs. Grose
The Fox Trot
Gwen
Some Will, Some Won't
Agnes Russell
Romeo and Juliet
Nurse
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
Blanche Hoskins
Rattle of a Simple Man
Mrs. Winthram
Bitter Harvest
Mrs. Jessup
Term of Trial
Mrs. Taylor
A Kind of Loving
Mrs. Rothwell
Over the Odds
Mrs Carter
The Entertainer
Mrs. Ada Lapford
Further Up the Creek
Mrs. Galloway
A Clean Sweep
Vera Watson
These Dangerous Years
Mrs. Ada Larkin
The Good Companions
Mrs Oakroyd
Now and Forever
Maggie the Maid (uncredited)
Sailor Beware
Mrs Lack
Home and Away
Margie Groves
Women Without Men
Gran' Rafferty
Blonde Bait
'Granny' Ramsey
Lost
Kelly's landlady
Simon and Laura
Jessie
Tiger by the Tail
Mary
The Quatermass Xperiment
Rosie Wrigley
The Love Match
Sal Brown
One Good Turn
Cook
The Crowded Day
Customer
For Better, for Worse
Mrs. Doyle
Don't Blame the Stork
Agnes O'Connor
A Day to Remember
Mrs. Trott
Background
Mrs. Humphries
Personal Affair
Mrs. Usher
Turn the Key Softly
Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Street Corner
Mrs. Perkins
The Long Memory
Mrs Pewsey
The Great Game
Miss Rawlings
The Big Frame
Hotel Maid
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Alice Crouch
Emergency Call
Mrs. Cornelius
The Frightened Man
Vera
The Magic Box
Doctor's Housekeeper
The Galloping Major
Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)
The Magnet
Nanny's friend
Once a Sinner
Mrs. James
The Cure for Love
Mrs. Dorbell
Madness of the Heart
Rosa
Boys in Brown
Mrs. Knowles
Conspirator
Broaders
Maytime in Mayfair
Janet
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Mrs. Bates
Fools Rush In
Mrs. Coot
Once a Jolly Swagman
Ma Fox
Portrait from Life
Mrs. Skinner
The Weaker Sex
Mrs. Gaye
The Blind Goddess
Derek's Charwoman
Corridor of Mirrors
Visitor in Tussauds
My Brother Jonathan
Ada
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Maud
Two Thousand Women
Mrs. Burtshaw
The Lodger
First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)
Went the Day Well?
Ivy
The Foreman Went to France
Barmaid
The Next of Kin
ATS drover with puncture
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Joyce
Go to Blazes
Elsie
TV Series
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2 Episodes
dinnerladies
Enid
1 Episode
Queen's Nose
Postmistress
2 Episodes
Goggle Eyes
Mrs Harrington
4 Episodes
Heartbeat
Hannah Stockdale
1 Episode
Perfect Scoundrels
Martha
1 Episode
Talking Heads
Doris
1 Episode
Screen Two
Jean Taylor
1 Episode
ITV Christmas Comedy
15 Episodes
Objects of Affection
Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
1 Episode
Hallelujah!
Captain Emily Ridley
15 Episodes
Blankety Blank
1 Episode
All Creatures Great and Small
Mrs. Clarke
2 Episodes
Last of the Summer Wine
Edie
138 Episodes
Play for Today
Olive Major
1 Episode
In Loving Memory
Ivy Unsworth
36 Episodes
The First Lady
54 Episodes
BBC Play of the Month
Clare Soppitt
1 Episode
The Wednesday Play
Blanche Hoskins
1 Episode
Meet the Wife
38 Episodes
Festival
Mrs. Baines
1 Episode
Z-Cars
1 Episode
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Ada
1 Episode
Dixon of Dock Green
Alice Leggett
1 Episode