Thora Hird
Birthday: 1911-05-28
Place of Birth: Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Movies
Went the Day Well?
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their tas...
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The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars b...
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Corridor of Mirrors
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved h...
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A Kind of Loving
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she ...
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Madness of the Heart
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly rea...
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The Nightcomers
Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of ...
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For Better, for Worse
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are no...
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One Good Turn
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the or...
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The Big Frame
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night bef...
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The Magnet
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero....
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The Entertainer
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in ...
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The Long Memory
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about ...
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Term of Trial
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires...
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England i...
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Personal Affair
A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves...
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Turn the Key Softly
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail....
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Lost
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their ...
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Blonde Bait
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Sco...
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Some Will, Some Won't
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical jok...
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a ...
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Boys in Brown
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a ro...
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Now and Forever
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her se...
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Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...
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Consuming Passions
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic acci...
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Emergency Call
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood t...
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The Love Match
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) r...
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Pat and Margaret
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to p...
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A Day to Remember
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of th...
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Lost for Words
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting t...
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Women Without Men
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Bo...
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Once a Sinner
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James....
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Portrait from Life
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to...
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Rattle of a Simple Man
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Fina...
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These Dangerous Years
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clash...
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Go to Blazes
Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat...
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements ...
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The Great Game
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach ...
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The Tailor of Gloucester
An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by ...
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Intensive Care
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They'...
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My Brother Jonathan
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the ...
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Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who ...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentr...
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Afternoon Off
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T...
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Fools Rush In
Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost f...
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Talking Heads
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a v...
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Julie and the Cadillacs
Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London...
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Simon and Laura
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show....
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Background
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "kee...
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Emma and Grandpa
Filmed in rural Sussex in 1982 and re-edited in 2008 with a new sound track, the charm of this perio...
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Don't Blame the Stork
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promp...
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The Blind Goddess
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H...
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The Next of Kin
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the wal...
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Bitter Harvest
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. ...
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Wide-Eyed and Legless
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they...
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Street Corner
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th...
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The Lodger
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lo...
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Two Thousand Women
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in Fr...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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The Good Companions
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth....
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Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Sh...
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Home and Away
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it t...
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The Weaker Sex
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II....
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Tiger by the Tail
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily invol...
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Maytime in Mayfair
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfa...
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The Villa Maroc
A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Moro...
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The Fox Trot
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostal...
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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, mu...
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The Frightened Man
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father....
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Memento Mori
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph...
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The Cure for Love
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to r...
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The Foreman Went to France
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent th...
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A Clean Sweep
George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never ...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captai...
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The Mayor's Charity
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But h...
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Say Something Happened
An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but en...
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The Galloping Major
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortuna...
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Thora Hird Tribute
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron an...
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The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store....
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