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...

Cream Cracker under the Settee". Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge and Thora Hird appear as different characters in both series. The show was produced by...

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...

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...

names include: Thora Dame Thora Hird (1911–2003), English actress Thora Birch (born 1982), American actress Thora Borgarhjort or Thora Town-Hart, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1985 and 2002 alongside Dame Thora Hird as his nagging wife, Edie, from 1986. Although initially overawed at working with Hird, Wharmby eventually started...

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...

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...

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...

It featured Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, Kathy Staff and Dame Thora Hird in leading roles. While Clarke was not involved in casting, he wrote the...

Cream Cracker under the Settee" is played out as a monologue by Doris (Thora Hird), a seventy-five-year-old woman who is a widow, following her slip off...

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...

Nigel Lana Morris as Lolly John Stone as Roddy Digby Wolfe as Benjie Thora Hird as Mrs. Gaye Bill Owen as Soldier Marian Spencer as Harriet Lessing Kynaston...

Carstairs and starring Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair and Thora Hird. The main setting of the film is an English children's home, located south...

Australian politician Harry Hird (1896–1974), English footballer James Hird (born 1973), Australian rules footballer Thora Hird (1911–2003), English actress...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

sports comedy-drama directed by Maurice Elvey and starring James Hayter, Thora Hird and Diana Dors. It was based on a play by Basil Thomas. Many of the scenes...