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