Thora Hird
Acting
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.
As actor 119
Play for Today
1970
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Screen Two
1985
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955
Heartbeat
1992
The Wednesday Play
1964
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
Z-Cars
1962
Parkinson
1998
Blankety Blank
1979
All Creatures Great and Small
1978
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
Screen One
1989
Drama 61-67
1961
Festival
1963
dinnerladies
1998
The Queen's Nose
1995
Esther
In Loving Memory
1969
Hallelujah!
1981
The Lodger
1944
The First Lady
1968
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
Emma and Grandpa
1983
Tell Me Another
1976
Meet the Wife
1963
The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
Memento Mori
1992
Consuming Passions
1988
Talking Heads
1988
Stage 2
1971
The Weaker Sex
1948
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Objects of Affection
1982
ITV Christmas Comedy
1983
Thomas & Sarah
1979
Street Corner
1953
The Nightcomers
1972
Pat and Margaret
1994
The Villa Maroc
1972
Armchair Theatre
1956
One Good Turn
1955
Home and Away
1956
Conspirator
1949
Corridor of Mirrors
1948
The Long Memory
1953
Afternoon Off
1979
Tiger by the Tail
1955
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
The Big Frame
1952
Goggle Eyes
1993
The Magic Box
1952
Sailor Beware
1956
Went the Day Well?
1942
Madness of the Heart
1949
Personal Affair
1953
The Big Blockade
1942
The Entertainer
1960
Term of Trial
1962
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
Boys in Brown
1949
Romeo and Juliet
1967
Bitter Harvest
1963
A Kind of Loving
1962
The Crowded Day
1954
Some Will, Some Won't
1970
The Good Companions
1957
Rattle of a Simple Man
1964
My Brother Jonathan
1948
Intensive Care
1982
The Frightened Man
1952
The Magnet
1950
Portrait from Life
1948
Lost
1956
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
Now and Forever
1956
Blonde Bait
1956
The Cure for Love
1949
A Day to Remember
1953
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952
Simon and Laura
1955
Two Thousand Women
1944
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949
Further Up the Creek
1958
Women Without Men
1956
The Great Game
1953
These Dangerous Years
1957
Say Something Happened
1982
The Galloping Major
1951
The Love Match
1955
For Better, for Worse
1954
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
1947
The Fox Trot
1971
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
1966
Don't Blame the Stork
1954
The Blind Goddess
1948
Turn the Key Softly
1953
The Next of Kin
1942
Emergency Call
1952
Once a Sinner
1950
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Julie and the Cadillacs
1999
Fools Rush In
1949
Talking Heads
1988
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942
Talking Heads 2
1998
A Clean Sweep
1958
Maytime in Mayfair
1949
The Mayor's Charity
1977
Lost for Words
1999
The Foreman Went to France
1942
Last of the Summer Wine: Uncle of the Bride
1986
Background
1953
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949
Go to Blazes
1942
Over the Odds
1961
Last of the Summer Wine: Big Day at Dream Acres
1987