
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.

Go to Blazes

The BAFTA Awards

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Consuming Passions

Tell Me Another

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

All Creatures Great and Small

Pat and Margaret

dinnerladies

Went the Day Well?

The Love Match

Heartbeat

Last of the Summer Wine

A Kind of Loving

Now and Forever

Lost for Words

Talking Heads 2

Sailor Beware

Home and Away

Z-Cars

Objects of Affection

The Queen's Nose

A Day to Remember

Two Thousand Women

In Loving Memory

Screen Two

Once a Sinner

My Brother Jonathan

The Foreman Went to France

The Long Memory

The Quatermass Xperiment

Boys in Brown

Emergency Call

The Lodger

The Magic Box

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Magnet

Play for Today

The Entertainer

Personal Affair

Lost

Memento Mori

Talking Heads

Turn the Key Softly

One Good Turn

Term of Trial

Further Up the Creek

Women Without Men

These Dangerous Years

The Great Game

Fools Rush In

Background

Wide-Eyed and Legless

The Weaker Sex

The Frightened Man

The Cure for Love

The Galloping Major

The Big Blockade

Hallelujah!

Perfect Scoundrels

Madness of the Heart

Portrait from Life

Corridor of Mirrors

Bitter Harvest

Simon and Laura

Conspirator

The Nightcomers

For Better, for Worse

The Blind Goddess

Tiger by the Tail

Once a Jolly Swagman

Street Corner

The Crowded Day

Maytime in Mayfair

Dixon of Dock Green

Rattle of a Simple Man

The Next of Kin

Talking Heads

BBC Play of the Month

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

Blonde Bait

Some Will, Some Won't

Blankety Blank

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The Wednesday Play

The Lost Hours

The Tailor of Gloucester

Intensive Care

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Afternoon Off

Emma and Grandpa

Romeo and Juliet

The Good Companions

The Villa Maroc

The Fox Trot

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

The Mayor's Charity

Say Something Happened

Over the Odds

Thora Hird Tribute

The First Lady

ITV Christmas Comedy

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

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