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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 23.954 |
Birthday | 1911-05-28 |
Place of Birth | Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Dame Thora Hird, |
1942
Went the Day Well?
7.169/62
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in prepara...
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Went the Day Well?
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
6.555/182
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...
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The Quatermass Xperiment
1948
Corridor of Mirrors
5.7/17
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
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Corridor of Mirrors
1962
A Kind of Loving
6.972/53
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reco...
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A Kind of Loving
1949
Madness of the Heart
5.9/8
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
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Madness of the Heart
1972
The Nightcomers
5.674/66
Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruptio...
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The Nightcomers
1954
For Better, for Worse
5.6/9
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.1...
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For Better, for Worse
1955
One Good Turn
6.3/10
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adven...
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One Good Turn
1952
The Big Frame
3.8/8
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...
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The Big Frame
1950
The Magnet
6.3/19
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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The Magnet
1960
The Entertainer
6.1/44
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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The Entertainer
1953
The Long Memory
6.5/17
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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The Long Memory
1949
Conspirator
5.9/21
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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Conspirator
1962
Term of Trial
5.7/12
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including...
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Term of Trial
1952
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
8/4
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "...
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1949
Once a Jolly Swagman
5.4/12
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
1953
Personal Affair
6.2/13
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
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Personal Affair
1953
Turn the Key Softly
6.2/13
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
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Turn the Key Softly
1956
Lost
7/4
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London...
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Lost
1956
Blonde Bait
4.8/4
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is cu...
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Blonde Bait
1970
Some Will, Some Won't
6/3
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
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Some Will, Some Won't
1942
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
7.2/4
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and Sout...
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1949
Boys in Brown
6.5/10
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Bo...
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Boys in Brown
1988
Consuming Passions
8/2
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless m...
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Consuming Passions
1958
Further Up the Creek
6/6
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...
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Further Up the Creek
1952
Emergency Call
6.5/6
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...
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Emergency Call
1955
The Love Match
7.8/3
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £5...
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The Love Match
1994
Pat and Margaret
7.5/10
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, fo...
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Pat and Margaret
1953
A Day to Remember
7.2/3
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get i...
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A Day to Remember
1999
Lost for Words
0/0
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first...
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Lost for Words
1956
Women Without Men
6/1
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model...
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Women Without Men
1950
Once a Sinner
6.5/3
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections -...
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Once a Sinner
1949
Fools Rush In
6/2
Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul tur...
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Fools Rush In
1948
Portrait from Life
6/6
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering...
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Portrait from Life
1942
Go to Blazes
10/1
Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
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Go to Blazes
1964
Rattle of a Simple Man
4.8/8
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho str...
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Rattle of a Simple Man
1957
These Dangerous Years
6/2
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
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These Dangerous Years
1949
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
4.9/7
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1953
The Great Game
6/1
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...
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The Great Game
1948
My Brother Jonathan
7/3
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work a...
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My Brother Jonathan
1982
Intensive Care
0/0
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sur...
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Intensive Care
1978
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
0/0
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1979
Afternoon Off
0/0
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in...
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Afternoon Off
1988
Talking Heads
5/1
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopefu...
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Talking Heads
1998
Talking Heads 2
7/1
A series of monologues.
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Talking Heads 2
1999
Julie and the Cadillacs
0/0
Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...
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Julie and the Cadillacs
1955
Simon and Laura
5.5/11
Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Simon and Laura
1953
Background
6/1
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children....
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Background
1954
Don't Blame the Stork
0/0
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to...
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Don't Blame the Stork
1948
The Blind Goddess
5.6/6
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Den...
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The Blind Goddess
1963
Bitter Harvest
6.2/10
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London i...
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Bitter Harvest
1942
The Next of Kin
5/6
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi sp...
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The Next of Kin
1993
Wide-Eyed and Legless
6/1
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty...
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Wide-Eyed and Legless
1953
Street Corner
5.6/10
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Street Corner
1944
The Lodger
6.4/87
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Lodger
1944
Two Thousand Women
6.8/9
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
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Two Thousand Women
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box
1956
Sailor Beware
7/5
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,rai...
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Sailor Beware
1957
The Good Companions
0/0
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
1956
Home and Away
7/2
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partner...
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Home and Away
1948
The Weaker Sex
6/5
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
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The Weaker Sex
1955
Tiger by the Tail
5.6/5
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...
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Tiger by the Tail
1949
Maytime in Mayfair
6/2
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as q...
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Maytime in Mayfair
1972
The Villa Maroc
0/0
A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.
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The Villa Maroc
1971
The Fox Trot
0/0
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When...
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The Fox Trot
1947
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
4.9/4
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then...
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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
1952
The Frightened Man
6.2/4
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
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The Frightened Man
1992
Memento Mori
7/3
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
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Memento Mori
1949
The Cure for Love
0/0
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls i...
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The Cure for Love
1942
The Foreman Went to France
6.2/9
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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The Foreman Went to France
1958
A Clean Sweep
0/0
George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.
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A Clean Sweep
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
0/0
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believi...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1977
The Mayor's Charity
0/0
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Att...
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The Mayor's Charity
1956
Now and Forever
7/3
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...
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Now and Forever
1967
Romeo and Juliet
0/0
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one fami...
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Romeo and Juliet
1989
The Tailor of Gloucester
0/0
An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.
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The Tailor of Gloucester
1966
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
0/0
The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by Rich...
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Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
Emma and Grandpa
0/0
Filmed in rural Sussex in 1982 and re-edited in 2008 with a new sound track, the charm of this period piece does not date. Each month there is a diffe...
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