Thora Hird

Filmography

• Last of the Summer Wine : Big Day at Dream Acres

  cast member

• 2003

  Thora

  [Subject of Programme]

• 2003

  The Lair of the Cat Creature

  Edie

• 2002

  Getting Close to Thora

  [Subject of Programme]
  on-screen participant

• 2002

  Last of the Summer Wine[06/01/2002]

  Edie

• 2002

  A Musical passing for a Miserable Muscroft

  Edie

• 2002

  Thora Hird

  on-screen participant

• 2002

  Open House with Gloria Hunniford[18/06/2002]

  interviewee

• 2001

  Getting Barry's Goat

  Edie

• 2001

  Kathy Staff - Wrinkles and All

  on-screen participant

• 2001

  In the Frame[27/05/2001]

  on-screen participant

• 2000

  The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything[02/01/2000]

  cast member

• 2000

  Last Post and Pigeon

  Edie

• 2000

  Lipstick and Other Problems

  Edie

• 2000

  Life Line Third Age Week[04/09/2000]

  Presented by

• 2000

  Open House with Gloria Hunniford[12/06/2000]

  on-screen participant

• 2000

  Open House with Gloria Hunniford[03/05/2000]

  interviewee

• 1999

  Dame Thora A Tonic for the Nation

  [Subject of Film]
  on-screen participant

• 1999

  Thora Hird

  [Subject of Film]
  on-screen participant

• 1999

  Christmas Reflection Rumours of Angels

  Virgin Mary

• 1999

  Lost for Words

  Mother

• 1999

  Julie and the Cadillacs

  Julie's grandmother

• 1999

  How Errol Flynn Discovered the Secret Scar of Nora Batty

  Edie

• 1999

  The Pony Set

  Edie

• 1999

  Howard Throws a Wobbler

  Edie

• 1999

  Beware the Vanilla Slice

  Edie

• 1999

  The Phantom No. 14 Bus

  Edie

• 1999

  Ironing Day

  Edie

• 1999

  What Happened to Barry's Nose?

  Edie

• 1999

  Optimism in the Housing Market

  Edie

• 1999

  Who's Thrown Her Tom Cruise Photographs Away?

  Edie

• 1999

  Will Barry Go Septic despite Listening to Classical Music?

  Edie

• 1999

  Dame Thora Hird

  on-screen participant

• 1999

  Christmas Glory

  on-screen participant

• 1999

  Dame Thora Hird: In Person

  interviewee

• 1998

  Waiting for the Telegram

  Violet

• 1998

  From Audrey Nash to the Widow Dilhooley

  Edie

• 1998

  The Only Diesel Saxophone in Captivity

  Edie

• 1998

  Oh Howard, We Should Get One of Those

  Edie

• 1998

  Support Your Local Skydiver

  Edie

• 1998

  Perfection - Thy Name Is Ridley

  Edie

• 1998

  Nowhere Particular

  Edie

• 1998

  The Suit That Attracts Blondes

  Edie

• 1998

  Tarzan of the Towpath

  Edie

• 1998

  Beware of the Oglethorpe

  Edie

• 1998

  Truly and the Hole Truth

  Edie

• 1998

  Moods

  Enid

• 1998

  Victoria Wood

  on-screen participant

• 1998

  This Morning[09/07/98](2)

  interviewee

• 1998

  Open House with Gloria Hunniford[08/07/98]

  interviewee

• 1997

  Thora Hird on the Midland Hotel

  presenter

• 1997

  A Sidecar Named Desire

  Edie

• 1997

  A Clean Sweep

  Edie

• 1997

  According to the Prophet Bickerdyke

  Edie

• 1997

  Deviations with Davenport

  Edie

• 1997

  Next Kiss Please

  Edie

• 1997

  There Goes the Groom

  Edie

• 1997

  The Love Mobile

  Edie

• 1997

  How to Create a Monster

  Edie

• 1997

  The Mysterious Cw Northrop

  Edie

• 1997

  Destiny and Six Bananas

  Edie

• 1997

  A Double for Howard

  Edie

• 1997

  25 Years of Last of the Summer Wine

  on-screen participant

• 1996

  This Is Your Life[30/12/96]

  Subject Of Programme

• 1996

  Extra! Extra!

  Edie

• 1996

  This Morning[11/11/96]

  interviewee

• 1995

  The Dewhirsts of Ogleby Hall

  Edie

• 1995

  The Sweet Smell of Excess

  Edie

• 1995

  Desperate for a Duffield

  Edie

• 1995

  A Leg up for Christmas

  Edie

• 1995

  The Glory Hole

  Edie

• 1995

  Brushes at Dawn

  Edie

• 1995

  Adopted by a Stray

  Edie

• 1995

  Bicycle Bonanza

  Edie

• 1995

  The First Human Being to Ride a Hill

  Edie

• 1995

  The Glamour of the Uniform

  Edie

• 1995

  The Most Powerful Eyeballs in West Yorkshire

  Edie

• 1995

  The Defeat of the Stoneworm

  Edie

• 1995

  Beware of the Elbow

  Edie

• 1995

  Leaving Home Forever, Or till Teatime

  Edie

• 1995

  The Thing in Wesley's Shed

  Edie

• 1995

  Once in a Moonlit Junkyard

  Edie

• 1995

  The Suit That Turned Left

  Edie

• 1995

  Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure

  Edie

• 1995

  The Space Ace

  Edie

• 1995

  The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti

  Edie

• 1995

  The Queen's Nose[15/11/95]

  Postmistress

• 1995

  The Best of Sunday Review

  on-screen participant

• 1994

  Thora Hird

  [Subject of Film]

• 1994

  The Spectre at the Feast

  Nanny Tucker

• 1994

  Treasure Trove

  Nanny Tucker

• 1994

  Pat and Margaret

  Jim's mum

• 1994

  Lost and Found

  Hannah Stockdale

• 1994

  Telly Addicts Christmas Special

  on-screen participant

• 1994

  It's a Girl

  Guest

• 1993

  Praise Be!

  presenter

• 1993

  Public Pleasures

  presenter

• 1993

  A Great Gulf Fixt

  presenter

• 1993

  A Thief in the Night

  presenter

• 1993

  One Voice

  presenter

• 1993

  Christmas Presence

  presenter

• 1993

  Immunisation The Safest Way to Protect Your Child

  narrator

• 1993

  Wide Eyed & Legless

  Deric's mother

• 1993

  Goggle Eyes Part 1

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[31/10/1993]

  Edie

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[27/12/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[19/12/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[24/10/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[28/11/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[21/11/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[7/11/1993]

  Edie

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[14/11/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[5/12/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Last of the Summer Wine[12/12/1993]

  cast member

• 1993

  Classic Coronation Street[11/04/93]

  Guest

• 1993

  The Royal Television Society Hall of Fame

  on-screen participant

• 1993

  Celebrity Squares[12/03/93]

  Guest

• 1992

  Praise Be!

  presenter

• 1992

  Camera Shy

  cast member

• 1992

  Stop That Castle!

  cast member

• 1992

  Wheelies

  cast member

• 1992

  Happy Birthday Howard

  cast member

• 1992

  Ordeal by Trousers

  cast member

• 1992

  Who's Got Rhythm?

  cast member

• 1992

  Her Finest Hour

  Edna Wood

• 1992

  Memento Mori

  Jean Taylor

• 1992

  The Self-propelled Salad Strainer

  cast member

• 1992

  By the Magnificent Thighs of Ernie Burniston

  cast member

• 1992

  Errol Flynn Used to Have a Pair Like That

  cast member

• 1992

  The Phantom of the Graveyard

  cast member

• 1992

  Boredom

  on-screen participant

• 1992

  Thora Hird

  on-screen participant

• 1991

  Praise Be!

  presenter

• 1991

  Grandmother's Footsteps

  Martha

• 1991

  Passing the Earring

  cast member

• 1991

  Quick, Quick, Slow

  cast member

• 1991

  Pole Star

  cast member

• 1991

  Cashflow Problems

  cast member

• 1991

  Situations Vacant

  cast member

• 1991

  Was That Nora Batty Singing?

  cast member

• 1991

  Give Us a Lift

  cast member

• 1990

  Praise Be!

  presenter

• 1990

  Last of the Summer Wine [02/09/90]

  cast member

• 1990

  That's Not Captain Zero

  Edie

• 1990

  The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built

  Edie

• 1990

  Last of the Summer Wine [09/09/90]

  cast member

• 1990

  A Landlady for Smiler

  Edie

• 1990

  The Charity Balls

  cast member

• 1990

  The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression

  Edie

• 1990

  Das (Welly) Boot

  Edie

• 1990

  Roll On

  Edie

• 1990

  Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous

  cast member

• 1990

  Promises to Keep

  Mrs Clarke

• 1990

  The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

  Old Betsy

• 1990

  Last of the Summer Wine Christmas Special

  cast member

• 1990

  The Treatment[28/03/90]

  on-screen participant

• 1989

  Praise Be!

  presenter

• 1989

  Oh Shut up and Eat Your Choc-ice

  cast member

• 1989

  The Best Time

  Mrs Clarke

• 1989

  What's Santa Brought for Nora Then?

  cast member

• 1989

  Who's That Bloke with Nora Batty Then?

  cast member

• 1989

  Getting Barry Higher in the World

  cast member

• 1989

  The Kiss and Mavis Poskitt

  cast member

• 1989

  Tailor of Gloucester

  cast member

• 1989

  Come Back Jack Harry Teesdale

  cast member

• 1989

  Happy Anniversary, Gough and Jessie

  cast member

• 1989

  Three Men and a Mangle

  cast member

• 1989

  Morecambe Bay

  on-screen participant

• 1988

  A Cream Cracker under the Settee

  Doris

• 1988

  Praise Be

  cast member

• 1988

  Day of the Welsh Ferret

  cast member

• 1988

  Last of the Summer Wine

  cast member

• 1988

  Consuming Passions

  Mrs Gordon

• 1988

  Years Ahead[17/10/88]

  on-screen participant

• 1987

  Praise Be

  presenter

• 1987

  Wind Power

  cast member

• 1986

  Praise Be![15/06/1986]

  presenter

• 1986

  Mrs Pepperpot

  presenter

• 1986

  Naughty Little Sister

  presenter

• 1986

  'Do You Take This Woman?'

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  They Shoot Undertakers, Don't They?

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  The Second Time Around

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  'Up in the World'

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  Trouble at Mill

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  And Auntie Came Too

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  Criminal Records

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  Flying Undertaker

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  The Undertaker's Apprentice

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  King of the Mountains

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1986

  Uncle of the Bride

  cast member

• 1986

  Looks Familiar[13/06/86]

  on-screen participant

• 1985

  Birds, The Rspb, And You

  Presented by

• 1984

  Praise Be

  presenter

• 1984

  Thora Hird Introduces How We Used to Live

  presenter

• 1984

  Emma and Grandpa

  narrator

• 1984

  Emma and Grandpa[05/01/84]

  narrator

• 1984

  Marching Orders

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  Just a Song at Twilight

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  Holy Deadlock

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  Snake Pit Part 1

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  Snake Pit Part 2

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  Cuckoo in the Nest

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1984

  Rock Bottom

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  It Happened One Night

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1984

  Cash and Carry

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1984

  A Goose for Mrs Scratchit

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Your Songs of Praise Choice

  presenter

• 1983

  Your Songs of Praise Choice[01/05/83]

  presenter

• 1983

  Your Songs of Praise Choice[12/06/83]

  presenter

• 1983

  Entry

  narrator

• 1983

  Hallelujah[13/05/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Hallelujah[03/06/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Hallelujah[20/05/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Hallelujah[29/04/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Hallelujah[06/05/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Hallelujah[10/06/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Hallelujah[27/05/83]

  Capt Emily Ridley

• 1983

  Good Morning Britain[24/11/83]

  on-screen participant

• 1982

  Your Songs of Praise Choice[25/07/82]

  presenter

• 1982

  Your Songs of Praise Choice[11/07/82]

  presenter

• 1982

  Say Something Happened

  Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

• 1982

  The Last Post

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  Christmas Show

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  Memories Are Made of This

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  Gone but Not Forgotten

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  The Actress and the Undertaker

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  Wedding Bells

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  Bowls

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  To Billy a Son

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1982

  Flesh and Blood Part 1

  Mabel Brassington

• 1982

  Topping on Sunday

  cast member

• 1982

  Flesh and Blood Part 10

  Mabel Brassington

• 1982

  Intensive Care

  Aunt Kitty

• 1982

  Looks Familiar[08/04/82]

  on-screen participant

• 1981

  It Happened One Christmas[25/12/81]

  interviewee

• 1980

  Your Songs of Praise Choice[27/07/80]

  presenter

• 1980

  The Outing

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1980

  Fall of the House of Unsworth

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1980

  Happy Birthday

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1980

  The Honeymooners

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1980

  Madame President

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1980

  The Angels Want Me for A Sunbeam

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 9 Worked Out

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 10 A Sort of Committee

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 3 Time of Life

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 7 Leave It with Me

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 4 A Decent Interval

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 8 Reap and Sow

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 5 Day of Rest

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 1 Feeling Your Age

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 6 Fish and Chips Twice

  Mabel Brassington

• 1980

  Flesh and Blood Part 2 Every Man Is an Island

  Mabel Brassington

• 1979

  In Loving Memory[21/05/79]

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  The Legacy

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  Gone Dancing

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  The Rivals

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  Pork

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  Come Back Little Malcolm

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  Onions

  Ivy Unsworth

• 1979

  Afternoon Off

  Mrs Beevers

• 1979

  The Basil Brush Show[08/12/79]

  special guest

• 1979

  Made in Heaven

  Mrs Entwislte

• 1979

  Blankety-blank[20/12/79]

  on-screen participant

• 1978

  Young at Heart [Pilot]

  Ethel Collyer

• 1978

  Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

  Mrs Hopkins

• 1977

  The Mayor's Charity

  Olive Major

• 1977

  The Boys and Mrs B

  cast member

• 1976

  Russell Harty[05/03/76]

  on-screen participant

• 1976

  Looks Familiar[26/10/76]

  on-screen participant

• 1975

  Dorothy's Birthday

  Mary Meegan

• 1975

  When We Are Married

  Clare Soppitt

• 1975

  Husband of the Year [25/07/75]

  on-screen participant

• 1972

  All the Jokers Full House!

  cast member

• 1972

  The Villa Maroc

  Doris

• 1972

  The Nightcomers

  Mrs Grose

• 1971

  The Foxtrot

  Gwen

• 1971

  The Three Graces

  Widow Butley

• 1970

  Your Songs of Praise

  presenter

• 1970

  Tommy Cooper[04/04/70]

  Guest Star

• 1970

  Some Will - Some Won't

  Agnes Russell

• 1970

  Holiday Startime

  Guest

• 1969

  It Calls for a Great Deal of Love

  Mrs Ogden

• 1969

  Ours Is a Nice House

  cast member

• 1968

  A Time of Fear

  Sarah Danby

• 1968

  Lash Out

  cast member

• 1968

  Biotex Demonstration Reel

  as herself

• 1967

  Romeo and Juliet

  nurse

• 1966

  The Adventures of Paddington Please Look after This Bear

  narrator

• 1966

  The Adventures of Paddington A Bear in Hot Water

  narrator

• 1966

  The Adventures of Paddington Paddington Goes Underground

  narrator

• 1966

  The Adventures of Paddington A Shopping Expedition

  narrator

• 1966

  The Adventures of Paddington A Disappearing Trick

  narrator

• 1966

  Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am

  Blanche Hoskins

• 1966

  Late Show London[12/01/1966]

  cast member

• 1964

  All Things Bright and Beautiful

  Queenie

• 1964

  Shopping

  Thora

• 1964

  The Invitation

  Thora

• 1964

  The Shelf

  Thora

• 1964

  The Lesson

  Thora

• 1964

  The Wallpaper

  Thora

• 1964

  The Teenage Niece

  Thora

• 1964

  Getting Away

  Thora

• 1964

  Old Time Dancing

  Thora

• 1964

  Rattle of a Simple Man

  Mrs Winthram

• 1964

  Christmas Night with the Stars

  Thora Blacklock

• 1963

  Nothing Serious

  Mrs Edwards

• 1963

  The Bed

  Thora

• 1963

  Bitter Harvest

  [Mrs Jessup] (uncredited)

• 1963

  J. Walter Thompson Demonstration Reel 1964a

  Voice over, Mother's Pride ad (50-99)

• 1962

  So Many Children

  Aggie Thompson

• 1962

  A Kind of Loving

  Mrs Rothwell

• 1962

  Term of Trial

  Mrs Taylor

• 1961

  Hi Diddle Diddle

  Helen Curvis

• 1961

  Over the Odds

  Mrs Carter

• 1960

  The Queen Came By

  Emmie Slee

• 1960

  The Entertainer

  Mrs Ada Lapford

• 1959

  The Anne Shelton Show[05/01/59]

  on-screen participant

• 1958

  A Clean Sweep

  Vera Watson

• 1958

  The Witching Hour

  cast member

• 1958

  Further up the Creek

  Mrs Galloway

• 1958

  Lionel Jeffries Home Movies Collection Film 8

  on-screen participant

• 1957

  These Dangerous Years

  Mrs. Larkin

• 1957

  The Good Companions

  Mrs Oakroyd

• 1956

  Women without Men

  Granny

• 1956

  The Same Sky

  Momma Brodsky

• 1956

  Home and Away

  Margie

• 1956

  Lost

  Kelly's landlady

• 1956

  Sailor Beware

  Mrs Lack

• 1956

  Now and Forever

  [Maggie, the maid]

• 1955

  The Queen Came By

  Emmie Slee

• 1955

  The Love Match

  Sal Brown

• 1955

  The Quatermass Xperiment

  Rosemary 'Rosie' Rigley

• 1955

  One Good Turn

  cook

• 1955

  Tiger by the Tail

  Mary

• 1955

  For Better, For Worse

  Mrs Doyle

• 1955

  Simon and Laura

  Jessie, housekeeper

• 1954

  Don't Blame the Stork

  Agnes O'Connor

• 1954

  The Crowded Day

  Eunice's mother

• 1953

  The Love Match

  Sal Brown

• 1953

  Turn the Key Softly

  landlady

• 1953

  Personal Affair

  Mrs Usher

• 1953

  Background

  Mrs Humphreys

• 1953

  The Long Memory

  Mrs Pewsey

• 1953

  Street Corner

  Mrs Perkins

• 1953

  A Day to Remember

  Mrs Trott

• 1952

  The Great Game

  Miss Rawlings

• 1952

  The Frightened Man

  Vera

• 1952

  Emergency Call

  Ada Cornelius

• 1952

  Time Gentlemen Please!

  Alice Crouch

• 1952

  The Lost Hours

  maid

• 1951

  The Bachelor

  Anna Priashkina

• 1951

  What Happens to Love

  Mrs Rowbotham

• 1951

  The Magic Box

  Mrs Smith, doctor's housekeeper

• 1950

  Once a Sinner

  Mrs James

• 1950

  The Cure for Love

  Nancy Dorbell

• 1950

  The Magnet

  Nannie's friend

• 1950

  Boys in Brown

  Mrs Knowles

• 1949

  Once a Jolly Swagman

  Ma Fox

• 1949

  Madness of the Heart

  Rosa

• 1949

  Maytime in Mayfair

  Janet

• 1949

  Fools Rush In

  Mrs Coot

• 1949

  Conspirator

  Broaders

• 1949

  A Boy, A Girl and a Bike

  Mrs Bates

• 1948

  The Weaker Sex

  Mrs Gaye

• 1948

  Portrait from Life

  Mrs Skinner

• 1948

  Corridor of Mirrors

  visitor in Tussaud's

• 1948

  The Blind Goddess

  Derek's charwoman

• 1948

  My Brother Jonathan

  [Ada]

• 1947

  The Courtneys of Curzon Street

  [Maud, stage dresser]

• 1944

  Two Thousand Women

  Mrs Burtshaw

• 1942

  Go to Blazes

  Elsie, the daughter

• 1942

  The Black Sheep of Whitehall

  Joyce

• 1942

  Went the Day Well?

  Ivy, land girl

• 1942

  The Next of Kin

  the A.T.S. girl

• 1942

  The Foreman Went to France

  [barmaid]

• 1942

  The Big Blockade

  [waitress]