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.

Cast

Went the Day Well?

Ivy

The Quatermass Xperiment

Rosie Wrigley

Corridor of Mirrors

Visitor in Tussauds

A Kind of Loving

Mrs. Rothwell

Madness of the Heart

Rosa

The Nightcomers

Mrs. Grose

For Better, for Worse

Mrs. Doyle

One Good Turn

Cook

The Big Frame

Hotel Maid

The Magnet

Nanny's friend

The Entertainer

Mrs. Ada Lapford

The Long Memory

Mrs Pewsey

Conspirator

Broaders

Term of Trial

Mrs. Taylor

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Alice Crouch

Once a Jolly Swagman

Ma Fox

Personal Affair

Mrs. Usher

Turn the Key Softly

Mrs. Rowan, landlady

Lost

Kelly's landlady

Blonde Bait

'Granny' Ramsey

Some Will, Some Won't

Agnes Russell

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Joyce

Boys in Brown

Mrs. Knowles

Now and Forever

Maggie the Maid (uncredited)

Further Up the Creek

Mrs. Galloway

Consuming Passions

Mrs. Gordon

Emergency Call

Mrs. Cornelius

The Love Match

Sal Brown

Pat and Margaret

Jim's Mother

A Day to Remember

Mrs. Trott

Lost for Words

Annie Longden

Women Without Men

Gran' Rafferty

Once a Sinner

Mrs. James

Portrait from Life

Mrs. Skinner

Rattle of a Simple Man

Mrs. Winthram

These Dangerous Years

Mrs. Ada Larkin

Go to Blazes

Elsie

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

Mrs. Bates

The Great Game

Miss Rawlings

The Tailor of Gloucester

Mrs. Speck

Intensive Care

Aunty Kitty

My Brother Jonathan

Ada

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

Blanche Hoskins

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Hopkins

Afternoon Off

Mrs Beevers

Fools Rush In

Mrs. Coot

Talking Heads

Unknown

Talking Heads 2

Unknown

Julie and the Cadillacs

Julie's grandmother

Simon and Laura

Jessie

Background

Mrs. Humphries

Emma and Grandpa

Narrator (UK)

Don't Blame the Stork

Agnes O'Connor

The Blind Goddess

Derek's Charwoman

The Next of Kin

ATS drover with puncture

Bitter Harvest

Mrs. Jessup

Romeo and Juliet

Nurse

Wide-Eyed and Legless

Deric's Mother

Street Corner

Mrs. Perkins

The Lodger

First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

Two Thousand Women

Mrs. Burtshaw

The Magic Box

Doctor's Housekeeper

The Good Companions

Mrs Oakroyd

Sailor Beware

Mrs Lack

Home and Away

Margie Groves

The Weaker Sex

Mrs. Gaye

Tiger by the Tail

Mary

Maytime in Mayfair

Janet

The Villa Maroc

Doris

The Fox Trot

Gwen

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

Maud

The Frightened Man

Vera

Memento Mori

Jean Taylor

The Cure for Love

Mrs. Dorbell

The Foreman Went to France

Barmaid

A Clean Sweep

Vera Watson

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Old Betsy

The Mayor's Charity

Olive Major

Say Something Happened

Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

The Galloping Major

Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)

Over the Odds

Mrs Carter

Thora Hird Tribute

Self, Various Characters (archive footage)

The Crowded Day

Customer