Thora Hird

Biography

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

Went the Day Well?

7 December, 1942

The Quatermass Xperiment

26 August, 1955

Corridor of Mirrors

23 February, 1948

A Kind of Loving

12 April, 1962

Madness of the Heart

20 December, 1949

The Nightcomers

15 February, 1972

For Better, for Worse

20 June, 1954

One Good Turn

4 January, 1955

The Big Frame

1 September, 1952

The Magnet

1 October, 1950

The Entertainer

25 July, 1960

The Long Memory

23 January, 1953

Conspirator

28 July, 1949

Term of Trial

16 August, 1962

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

1 July, 1952

Once a Jolly Swagman

2 February, 1949

Personal Affair

20 October, 1953

Turn the Key Softly

29 April, 1953

Lost

31 January, 1956

Blonde Bait

1 April, 1956

Some Will, Some Won't

1 April, 1970

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

23 February, 1942

Boys in Brown

1 December, 1949

Now and Forever

10 September, 1956

Further Up the Creek

28 October, 1958

Consuming Passions

6 April, 1988

Emergency Call

19 May, 1952

The Love Match

1 February, 1955

Pat and Margaret

11 September, 1994

A Day to Remember

10 November, 1953

Lost for Words

3 January, 1999

Women Without Men

1 June, 1956

Once a Sinner

1 July, 1950

Portrait from Life

1 December, 1948

Rattle of a Simple Man

20 December, 1964

These Dangerous Years

3 July, 1957

Go to Blazes

1 January, 1942

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

23 May, 1949

The Great Game

1 January, 1953

The Tailor of Gloucester

28 December, 1989

Intensive Care

9 November, 1982

My Brother Jonathan

5 February, 1948

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

9 February, 1966

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

2 December, 1978

Afternoon Off

3 February, 1979

Fools Rush In

23 May, 1949

Talking Heads

19 April, 1988

Talking Heads 2

6 October, 1998

Julie and the Cadillacs

1 January, 1999

Simon and Laura

2 November, 1955

Background

9 November, 1953

Emma and Grandpa

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Don't Blame the Stork

1 January, 1954

The Next of Kin

15 June, 1942

The Blind Goddess

14 September, 1948

Bitter Harvest

8 March, 1963

Romeo and Juliet

12 March, 1967

Wide-Eyed and Legless

5 September, 1993

Street Corner

17 March, 1953

The Lodger

19 January, 1944

Two Thousand Women

6 November, 1944

The Magic Box

1 January, 1952

Sailor Beware

4 September, 1956

The Good Companions

22 April, 1957

Home and Away

4 September, 1956

The Weaker Sex

11 October, 1948

Tiger by the Tail

19 September, 1955

Maytime in Mayfair

24 May, 1949

The Villa Maroc

17 February, 1972

The Fox Trot

29 April, 1971

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

11 April, 1947

The Frightened Man

1 March, 1952

Memento Mori

19 April, 1992

The Cure for Love

29 December, 1949

The Foreman Went to France

22 June, 1942

A Clean Sweep

1 January, 1958

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

26 December, 1990

The Mayor's Charity

29 November, 1977

Say Something Happened

17 December, 1982

The Galloping Major

7 May, 1951

Over the Odds

1 November, 1961

Z-Cars

1962

In Loving Memory

1969

Heartbeat

1992

Last of the Summer Wine

1973

Blankety Blank

1979

Hallelujah!

1981

The First Lady

1968

Meet the Wife

1963

dinnerladies

1998

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1955

Play for Today

1970

BBC Play of the Month

1965

Perfect Scoundrels

1990

Talking Heads

1988

Talking Heads

1988

ITV Christmas Comedy

1983

Goggle Eyes

1993

All Creatures Great and Small

1978

BBC Play of the Month

1965

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

2000

Objects of Affection

1982

Play for Today

1970

Play for Today

1970

Dixon of Dock Green

1955

Tell Me Another

1976

Parkinson

1998

Screen Two

1985

The BAFTA Awards

1949

Queen's Nose

1995

The Wednesday Play

1964