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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.

Et billede af Thora Hird

Actor

1942

[ ] Went the Day Well? (Ivy)
[ ] The Black Sheep of Whitehall (Joyce)
[ ] Go to Blazes (Elsie)
[ ] The Next of Kin (ATS drover with puncture)
[ ] The Foreman Went to France (Barmaid)

1944

[ ] The Lodger (First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited))
[ ] Two Thousand Women (Mrs. Burtshaw)

1947

[ ] The Courtneys of Curzon Street (Maud)

1948

[ ] Corridor of Mirrors (Visitor in Tussauds)
[ ] Portrait from Life (Mrs. Skinner)
[ ] My Brother Jonathan (Ada)
[ ] The Blind Goddess (Derek's Charwoman)
[ ] The Weaker Sex (Mrs. Gaye)

1949

[ ] Madness of the Heart (Rosa)
[ ] Conspirator (Broaders)
[ ] Once a Jolly Swagman (Ma Fox)
[ ] Boys in Brown (Mrs. Knowles)
[ ] A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (Mrs. Bates)
[ ] Fools Rush In (Mrs. Coot)
[ ] Maytime in Mayfair (Janet)
[ ] The Cure for Love (Mrs. Dorbell)

1950

[ ] The Magnet (Nanny's friend)
[ ] Once a Sinner (Mrs. James)

1951

[ ] The Galloping Major (Tea Stall Woman (uncredited))

1952

[ ] The Big Frame (Hotel Maid)
[ ] Time, Gentlemen, Please! (Alice Crouch)
[ ] Emergency Call (Mrs. Cornelius)
[ ] The Magic Box (Doctor's Housekeeper)
[ ] The Frightened Man (Vera)

1953

[ ] The Long Memory (Mrs Pewsey)
[ ] Personal Affair (Mrs. Usher)
[ ] Turn the Key Softly (Mrs. Rowan, landlady)
[ ] A Day to Remember (Mrs. Trott)
[ ] The Great Game (Miss Rawlings)
[ ] Background (Mrs. Humphries)
[ ] Street Corner (Mrs. Perkins)

1954

[ ] For Better, for Worse (Mrs. Doyle)
[ ] Don't Blame the Stork (Agnes O'Connor)
[ ] The Crowded Day (Customer)

1955

[ ] The Quatermass Xperiment (Rosie Wrigley)
[ ] One Good Turn (Cook)
[ ] The Love Match (Sal Brown)
[ ] Simon and Laura (Jessie)
[ ] Tiger by the Tail (Mary)

1956

[ ] Lost (Kelly's landlady)
[ ] Blonde Bait ('Granny' Ramsey)
[ ] Now and Forever (Maggie the Maid (uncredited))
[ ] Women Without Men (Gran' Rafferty)
[ ] Sailor Beware (Mrs Lack)
[ ] Home and Away (Margie Groves)

1957

[ ] These Dangerous Years (Mrs. Ada Larkin)
[ ] The Good Companions (Mrs Oakroyd)

1958

[ ] Further Up the Creek (Mrs. Galloway)
[ ] A Clean Sweep (Vera Watson)

1960

[ ] The Entertainer (Mrs. Ada Lapford)

1961

[ ] Over the Odds (Mrs Carter)

1962

[ ] A Kind of Loving (Mrs. Rothwell)
[ ] Term of Trial (Mrs. Taylor)

1963

[ ] Bitter Harvest (Mrs. Jessup)

1964

[ ] Rattle of a Simple Man (Mrs. Winthram)

1966

[ ] Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am! (Blanche Hoskins)

1967

[ ] Romeo and Juliet (Nurse)

1970

[ ] Some Will, Some Won't (Agnes Russell)

1971

[ ] The Fox Trot (Gwen)

1972

[ ] The Nightcomers (Mrs. Grose)
[ ] The Villa Maroc (Doris)

1977

[ ] The Mayor's Charity (Olive Major)

1978

[ ] Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Hopkins)

1979

[ ] Afternoon Off (Mrs Beevers)

1982

[ ] Intensive Care (Aunty Kitty)
[ ] Say Something Happened (Elizabeth Mary Rhodes)

1983

[ ] Emma and Grandpa (Narrator (voice))

1988

[ ] Consuming Passions (Mrs. Gordon)
[ ] Talking Heads (????)

1989

[ ] The Tailor of Gloucester (Mrs. Speck)

1990

[ ] The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (Old Betsy)

1992

[ ] Memento Mori (Jean Taylor)

1993

[ ] Wide-Eyed and Legless (Deric's Mother)

1994

[ ] Pat and Margaret (Jim's Mother)

1998

[ ] Talking Heads 2 (????)

1999

[ ] Lost for Words (Annie Longden)
[ ] Julie and the Cadillacs (Julie's grandmother)

2003

[ ] Thora Hird Tribute (Self, Various Characters (archive footage))