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    Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 – 15 March 2003) was an English actress. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 films, as well...
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  • and Legless (aka The Wedding Gift). It dealt with Deric's mother Annie (Thora Hird), her decline into dementia and how Deric (Pete Postlethwaite) and his...
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  • names include: Thora Dame Thora Hird (1911–2003), English actress Thora Birch (born 1982), American actress Thora Borgarhjort or Thora Town-Hart, the...
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  • undertakers business that starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny. A pilot with Marjorie Rhodes in the Thora Hird role was transmitted in 1969 by Thames...
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  • Cream Cracker under the Settee". Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge and Thora Hird appear as different characters in both series. The show was produced by...
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  • American singer Mel Tormé and British actress Janette Scott and grandson of Thora Hird. After winning the Chuck Niles Jazz Music Award in 2007 and having released...
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  • Hay and Basil Dearden, starring Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney and Thora Hird in her screen debut. It was produced by Michael Balcon and Ealing Studios...
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  • which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran for five series. The series was based on a 1963...
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  • Williams and Herbert Glazer and starring Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice, Thora Hird and Hermione Baddeley. A woman escapes from prison to keep a date with...
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  • directed by Michael Winner and starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews and Anna Palk. It is a prequel to Henry James' 1898 novella...
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    the Morecambe-born actress Thora Hird in the essays Last of the Sun, about the final play he wrote for her, and "Thora Hird 1911–2003", a memoir of the...
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  • the fictional place of Blackwick in series 2). Captain Emily Ridley (Thora Hird) has been posted there, having been an active member of the Salvation...
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    Morecambe, Lancashire, England. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird and began her acting career as a child actress known as Janette Scott...
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  • making do with "a kind of loving". Alan Bates as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown Thora Hird as Mrs. Rothwell June Ritchie as Ingrid Rothwell Bert Palmer as Mr. Geoffrey...
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  • the Bride introduced Seymour's sister, Edie, played by veteran actress Thora Hird, and her family, who were brought over to the programme the following...
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    class ("2:2") a "Desmond Tutu", while a third class degree is known as a "Thora Hird" or "Douglas Hurd". Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his...
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  • 1985 and 2002 alongside Dame Thora Hird as his nagging wife, Edie, from 1986. Although initially overawed at working with Hird, Wharmby eventually started...
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  • Richard Loncraine starring Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Sian Thomas and Thora Hird. It is based on the 1989 book Diana's Story by the writer Deric Longden...
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  • Herbert Wilcox and starring George Baker, Frankie Vaughan, Carole Lesley, Thora Hird, Kenneth Cope, David Lodge and John Le Mesurier. It was written by Jack...
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  • Val Guest and starring David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, Thora Hird and Lionel Jeffries. It served as a follow-up to Up the Creek (1958),...
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  • Elizabeth Allan as Peggy Pryde (a Land Army Girl) Frank Lawton as Tom Sturry Thora Hird as Ivy Dawking (a Land Army Girl) Muriel George as Mrs Collins, the postmistress...
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  • a 1949 British film starring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Thora Hird and Sid James. It was written by William Rose and Jack Lee, based on the...
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    Fields as dog-trainer Mrs Robertson (1986). In 1988, Cole joined actresses Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Patricia Routledge in the award-winning...
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  • Longden, Jim Broadbent as Deric Longden, Sian Thomas as Aileen Armitage and Thora Hird as Deric's mother Annie Longden. Longden co-wrote the script with Jack...
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  • Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith, Roland Culver, Dudley Foster and Thora Hird. It was produced by James Woolf for Romulus Films, with James H. Ware...
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  • television series produced by the BBC in 1968 and 1969. The series starred Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby and was set around the fictional...
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  • Australian politician Harry Hird (1896–1974), English footballer James Hird (born 1973), Australian rules footballer Thora Hird (1911–2003), English actress...
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    of most wins in this category with four, followed by Dame Judi Dench, Thora Hird, and Dame Helen Mirren, with three wins each. The nominations tally includes...
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  • demeanour has hardened. Her accent also changed during the series. (Dame Thora Hird; 1986–2003) Edith Pegden, Edie to her friends, was a highly opinionated...
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    Monkhouse, and Arthur Askey. Eaton's female co-stars included Peggy Mount, Thora Hird, and Dora Bryan among others. Her early roles include Three Men in a Boat...
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