Editing Thora Hird

{{Short description|British actress (1911–2003)}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Dame]]
| name               = Thora Hird
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE}}
| image              = Dame Thora Hird Allan Warren.jpg
| caption            = Hird in 1974
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=yes|1911|5|28}}
| birth_place        = [[Morecambe]], [[Lancashire]], England
| occupation         = Actress
| television         = ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''<br/>''[[In Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]''<br/>''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]''
| notable_works      = [[#Filmography|See here]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2003|3|15|1911|5|28}}
| death_place        = [[Twickenham]], London, England
| years_active       = 1931–2003
| spouse             = {{marriage|James Scott|1937|1994|end=his death}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/thorahird.htm|title="TV GREATS:DAME THORA HIRD 1911 – 2003", Television Heaven|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
| children           = [[Janette Scott]]
| resting_place      = Chichester Crematorium and Garden of Remembrance, [[Chichester]], [[West Sussex]], England
}}

'''Dame Thora Hird''' (28 May 1911&nbsp;– 15 March 2003) was an English actress. In a career spanning over 70 years,<ref name=":0">{{cite web |date=17 March 2003 |title=Dame Thora Hird Obituary |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dame-thora-hird-36347.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dame-thora-hird-36347.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |access-date=29 April 2018 |work=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref> she appeared in more than 100 films, as well as many television roles, becoming a household name and a British institution.<ref name="BBC death">{{cite news |date=15 March 2003 |title=Obituary: Dame Thora Hird |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/946854.stm |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=BBC News}}</ref>

Hird was a three-time winner of the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress]], for ''[[A Cream Cracker under the Settee|Talking Heads: A Cream Cracker Under the Settee]]'' (1989), ''[[Talking Heads (British TV series)|Talking Heads: Waiting for the Telegram]]'' (1999) and ''[[Lost for Words (1999 film)|Lost for Words]]'' (2000). She also received a BAFTA Special Award in 1994.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=BAFTA Awards Search {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=thora%20hird |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=awards.bafta.org}}</ref> Her film credits included ''[[The Love Match]]'' (1955), ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960), ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962) and ''[[The Nightcomers]]'' (1971).<ref name="IMDB">{{cite web |title=Thora Hird {{!}} Actress |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386331/ |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=IMDb }}</ref>

== Early life and career ==
Hird was born on 28 May 1911 in the [[Lancashire]] seaside town of [[Morecambe]] to James Henry Hird and Jane Mary (née Mayor).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/17/guardianobituaries.media|title=Obituary: Dame Thora Hird|date=17 March 2003|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=29 May 2020}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1424810/Dame-Thora-Hird.html|title=Dame Thora Hird|date=17 March 2003|access-date=29 May 2020|newspaper=The Telegraph}}</ref> Her family background was largely theatrical: her mother had been an actress, while her father managed a number of entertainment venues in Morecambe, including the Royalty Theatre, where Hird made her first appearance, and the [[West End Pier, Morecambe|West End Pier]]. Thora first appeared on stage in 1911 at the age of two months in a play her father was managing, carried on stage in her mother's arms.<ref name="BBC death"/> She worked at the local [[The Co-operative Group|Co-operative store]] before joining the Morecambe Repertory Theatre.<ref name="BBC death"/>

Hird often described her father, who initially did not want her to be an actress, as her sternest critic and attributed much of her talent as an actress and comedian to his guidance.<ref name="BBC death"/> In 1944 she made her [[West End theatre|West End]] debut in the [[Esther McCracken]] play ''[[No Medals]]''.<ref name=":0"/>

Although Hird left Morecambe in the late 1940s, she retained her affection for the town, referring to herself as a "sand grown 'un", the colloquial term for anyone born in Morecambe.<ref>{{cite web |last=DEM |date=9 March 2021 |title=Women in Lancaster & Morecambe – Day 2 |url=https://www.lancastercivicsociety.uk/2021/03/09/women-in-lancaster-morecambe-day-2/ |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=Lancaster Civic Vision }}</ref>

Initially, Hird made regular appearances in films, including the wartime propaganda film ''[[Went the Day Well?]]'' (1942, known as ''48 Hours'' in the USA), in which she is shown wielding a rifle to defend a house from [[Fallschirmjäger (Nazi Germany)|German paratroopers]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Patterson |first=John |date=3 July 2010 |title=Thora Hird takes on the Nazis, as directed by a Brazilian surrealist |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jul/03/went-day-well-patterson |access-date=24 December 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> She worked with the British film comedian [[Will Hay]] and featured in ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960), which starred [[Laurence Olivier]], as well as ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962) with [[Alan Bates]] and [[June Ritchie]].<ref name="IMDB"/>

Hird gained her highest profile in [[television comedy]], notably the [[situation comedy|sitcoms]] ''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]'' (1963–66), ''[[In Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]'' (1979–86), ''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]'' (1983–84) and, for nearly two decades, as Edie Pegden in ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' (1986–2003). Hird played a variety of roles, including the nurse in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', and won [[BAFTA]] Best Actress awards for her roles in two of [[Alan Bennett]]'s ''[[Talking Heads (British TV series)|Talking Heads]]'' monologues.<ref name="BBC death"/>

Hird starred as Captain Emily Ridley in the sitcom ''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]'' (1983–84) about the [[Salvation Army]], a movement which she supported throughout her life.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 September 2003 |title=Dame Thora Hird Family and friends celebrate life of enduring star of stage and screen |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12532560.dame-thora-hird-family-and-friends-celebrate-life-of-enduring-star-of-stage-and-screen/ |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=The Herald }}</ref> Hird also portrayed Mrs Speck, the housekeeper of the Mayor of [[Gloucester]], in ''[[The Tailor of Gloucester (Television Film)|The Tailor of Gloucester]]'' (1989).

In 1993 she played Annie Longden, mother of [[Deric Longden]] in ''[[Wide-Eyed and Legless]]'' (known as ''The Wedding Gift'' outside the UK) and reprised her role in the 1999 TV film ''[[Lost for Words (1999 film)|Lost for Words]]'', which won her a BAFTA for Best Actress.<ref name=":1"/>

== Religious broadcasts ==
Hird was a committed Christian, hosting the religious programmes ''Your Songs of Praise Choice'' (1979–1983) and ''Praise Be!'' (1984–1993), a spin-off from ''[[Songs of Praise]]'' on the [[BBC]].<ref name=":0"/> Her work for charity and on television in spite of old age and ill health made her an institution. Her advertisements for Churchill [[stairlift]]s also kept her in the public eye.<ref>{{cite web |title=UK TV Adverts July 1997 | date=18 June 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHuXij637hA |access-date=24 December 2023 }}</ref>

== Honours ==
She was invested as an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[1983 Birthday Honours]] and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in the [[1993 Birthday Honours]]. She received an honorary [[D.Litt.]] from [[Lancaster University]] in 1989.<ref name=":3">{{cite news |last=Horwell |first=Veronica |date=17 March 2003 |title=Dame Thora Hird |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/17/guardianobituaries.media |access-date=24 December 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

== Later life ==
In December 1998, using a [[wheelchair]], Hird played a brief but energetic cameo role as the mother of Dolly on ''[[Dinnerladies (TV series)|Dinnerladies]]'', a sarcastic character who was particularly bitter towards her daughter.<ref>{{cite web |title=dinnerladies Series 1, Episode 4 – Moods |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/dinnerladies/episodes/1/4/ |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>

Her final acting work was for [[BBC Radio 7]], which was recorded in 2002 and broadcast some months after her death: a monologue written for her by Alan Bennett entitled ''The Last of the Sun'', in which she played a forthright, broad-minded woman, immobile in an old people's home but still able to take a stand against the censorious and politically correct attitudes of her own daughter.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 7 – Alan Bennett: The Last of the Sun |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jr1l |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=BBC }}</ref>

== ''This Is Your Life'' ==
She was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' on two occasions: in January 1964 when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]], and in December 1996, when [[Michael Aspel]] surprised her while filming on location for ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=This is Your Life (UK) - Aired Order - All Seasons - TheTVDB.com |url=https://thetvdb.com/series/this-is-your-life/allseasons/official |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=thetvdb.com}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Hird married musician James Scott in 1937. They had a daughter, actress [[Janette Scott]], in 1938. Hird was mother-in-law to jazz singer [[Mel Tormé]] for eleven years. Hird was widowed in 1994, having been married for 57 years.<ref name=":2"/>

Hird underwent a heart bypass operation in 1992. She suffered from severe [[osteoarthritis]], had repeated hip replacements and used a wheelchair in her later life. 

== Death ==
Hird died on 15 March 2003 aged 91, following a stroke.<ref name=":3"/> A memorial service was held on 15 September 2003 at [[Westminster Abbey]] attended by more than 2,000 people, including [[Alan Bennett]], [[Sir David Frost]], [[Melvyn Bragg]] and [[Victoria Wood]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3110150.stm | title=Stars celebrate Dame Thora's life | date=15 September 2003 | access-date=29 March 2015 | work=BBC News}}</ref>

In July 2019, a commemorative blue plaque to Thora Hird was installed by The Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America, at the [[Bayswater]] home where she lived for over 50 years.<ref>[http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php "Dame Thora Hird is Commemorated"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518152923/http://www.themusichallguild.com/news.php |date=18 May 2019 }}, the Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America, accessed 7 July 2019</ref>

== Filmography ==
=== Film<ref name="IMDB"/> ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1942
|''[[The Black Sheep of Whitehall]]''
|Joyce
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Went the Day Well?]]''
|Ivy Dawking
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Go to Blazes (1942 film)|Go to Blazes]]''
|Elsie
|Short
|-
|1942
|''[[The Next of Kin]]''
|[[Auxiliary Territorial Service|ATS]] Driver
|
|-
|1944
|''[[Two Thousand Women]]''
|Mrs. Burtshaw
|
|-
|1947
|''[[The Courtneys of Curzon Street]]''
|Maud
|
|-
|1948
|''[[Corridor of Mirrors (film)|Corridor of Mirrors]]''
|Visitor in [[Madame Tussauds]]
|
|-
|1948
|''[[My Brother Jonathan]]''
|Ada
|
|-
|1948
|''{{sortname|The|Weaker Sex|The Weaker Sex (1948 film)}}''
|Mrs. Gaye
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Once a Jolly Swagman]]''
|Ma Fox
|
|-
|1949
|''Lost Daughter''
|Mrs. Skinner
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Fools Rush In (1949 film)|Fools Rush In]]''
|Mrs. Coot
|
|-
|1949
|''[[A Boy, a Girl and a Bike]]''
|Mrs. Bates
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Conspirator (1949 film)|Conspirator]]''
|Broaders
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Madness of the Heart]]''
|Rosa
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Maytime in Mayfair]]''
|Janet
|
|-
|1949
|''{{sortname|The|Cure for Love}}''
|Mrs. Dorbell
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Boys in Brown]]''
|Mrs. Knowles
|
|-
|1950
|''[[Once a Sinner (1950 film)|Once a Sinner]]''
|Mrs. James
|
|-
|1950
|''[[The Magnet (film)|The Magnet]]''
|Nanny's Friend
|
|-
|1951
|''[[The Galloping Major (film)|The Galloping Major]]''
|Tea Stall Proprietress
|
|-
|1952
|''{{sortname|The|Frightened Man}}''
|Vera
|
|-
|1952
|''{{sortname|The|Hundred Hour Hunt|nolink=1}}''
|Mrs. Cornelius
|
|-
|1952
|''[[Time Gentlemen, Please!]]''
|Alice Crouch
|
|-
|1953
|''{{sortname|The|Long Memory}}''
|Mrs. Pewsey
|
|-
|1953
|''{{sortname|The|Great Game|The Great Game (1953 film)}}''
|Miss Rawlings
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Street Corner (1953 film)|Street Corner]]''
|Mrs. Perkins
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Turn the Key Softly]]''
|Mrs. Rowan
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Personal Affair]]''
|Mrs. Usher
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Background (1953 film)|Background]]''
|Mrs. Humphries
|
|-
|1953
|''{{sortname|A|Day to Remember|A Day to Remember (1953 film)}}''
|Mrs. Trott
|
|-
|1954
|''{{sortname|The|Crowded Day}}''
|Eunice's mother
|
|-
|1954
|''[[Don't Blame the Stork]]''
|Agnes O'Connor
|
|-
|1954
|''[[For Better, for Worse (1954 film)|For Better, for Worse]]''
|Mrs. Doyle
|
|-
|1954
|''[[Tiger by the Tail (1955 film)|Tiger by the Tail]]''
|Mary
|
|-
|1955
|''{{sortname|The|Love Match}}''
|Sal Brown
|
|-
|1955
|''[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]''
|Rosie
|
|-
|1955
|''[[Simon and Laura#Film|Simon and Laura]]''
|Jessie
|
|-
|1955
|''[[One Good Turn (1955 film)|One Good Turn]]''
|Cook
|
|-
|1956
|''[[Women Without Men (1956 film)|Women Without Men]]''
|Granny Rafferty
|
|-
|1956
|''[[Sailor Beware! (1956 film)|Sailor Beware!]]''
|Mrs. Lack
|
|-
|1956
|''[[Home and Away (film)|Home and Away]]''
|Margie
|
|-
|1957
|''{{sortname|The|Good Companions|The Good Companions (1957 film)}}''
|Mrs. Oakroyd
|
|-
|1957
|''[[These Dangerous Years]]''
|Mrs. Larkin
|
|-
|1958
|''[[Further Up the Creek]]''
|Mrs. Galloway
|
|-
|1958
|''{{sortname|A|Clean Sweep|nolink=1}}''
|Vera Watson
|Short
|-
|1960
|''{{sortname|The|Entertainer|The Entertainer (1960 film)}}''
|Ada Lapford
|
|-
|1961
|''[[Over the Odds]]''
|Mrs. Carter
|
|-
|1962
|''{{sortname|A|Kind of Loving|A Kind of Loving (film)}}''
|Mrs. Rothwell
|
|-
|1962
|''[[Term of Trial]]''
|Mrs. Taylor
|
|-
|1963
|''[[Bitter Harvest (1963 film)|Bitter Harvest]]''
|Mrs. Jessup
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Rattle of a Simple Man]]''
|Mrs. Winthram
|
|-
|1970
|''[[Some Will, Some Won't]]''
|Agnes Russell
|
|-
|1971
|''{{sortname|The|Nightcomers}}''
|Mrs. Grose
|
|-
|1983
|''Entry''
|Narrator
|Short
|-
|1988
|''[[Consuming Passions]]''
|Mrs. Gordon
|
|-
|1999
|''Julie and the Cadillacs''
|Julie's grandmother
|
|}

=== Television<ref name="IMDB"/> ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1947
|''Mary Rose''
|Mrs. Otery
|TV film
|-
|1949
|''{{sortname|The|Winslow Boy|nolink=1}}''
|Violet
|TV film
|-
|1951
|''[[Sunday Night Theatre]]''
|Anna Priashkina
|Episode: "The Bachelor"
|-
|1951
|''What Happens to Love''
|Mrs. Rowbotham
|TV film
|-
|1955
|''{{sortname|The|Queen Came By|nolink=1}}''
|Emmie Slee
|TV film
|-
|1955
|''{{sortname|The|Adventures of Robin Hood|The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)}}''
|Ada
|Episode: "A Husband for Marian"
|-
|1956
|''[[Armchair Theatre]]''
|Momma Brodsky
|Episode: "The Same Sky"
|-
|1958
|''[[Saturday Playhouse]]''
|Aggie Thompson
|Episode: "So Many Children"
|-
|1959
|''Blackpool Show Parade''
|Mrs. McTaggart
|Episode: "Happy Days"
|-
|1960
|''[[Bootsie and Snudge]]''
|Emily
|Episode: "Johnson's Retirement"
|-
|1961
|''[[ITV Playhouse]]''
|Helen Curvis
|Episode: "Hi Diddle Diddle"
|-
|1963
|''[[Z-Cars]]''
|Mrs. Edwards
|Episode: "Nothing Serious"
|-
|1963
|''[[Drama 61-67]]''
|Mrs. Hope
|Episode: "Drama '63: Albert Hope"
|-
|1963
|''[[Comedy Playhouse]]''
|Thora Blacklock
|Episode: "The Bed"
|-
|1963–1966
|''[[Meet the Wife (TV series)|Meet the Wife]]''
|Thora Blacklock
|Main role
|-
|1964
|''[[First Night (TV series)|First Night]]''
|Queenie
|Episode: "All Things Bright and Beautiful"
|-
|1964
|''[[Festival (British TV series)|Festival]]''
|Mrs. Baines
|Episode: "Say Nothing"
|-
|1965
|''My Perfect Husband''
|Thora
|TV film
|-
|1966
|''{{sortname|The|Wednesday Play}}''
|Blanche Hoskins
|Episode: "Who's a Good Boy Then?"
|-
|1966
|''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]''
|Alice Leggett
|Episode: "Face at the Window"
|-
|1966
|''[[Jackanory]]''
|Storyteller
|5 episodes
|-
|1967, 1975
|''[[Play of the Month]]''
|Nurse, Clara Soppitt
|Episodes: "Romeo and Juliet", "When We Are Married"
|-
|1968–69
|''{{sortname|The|First Lady|The First Lady (British TV series)}}''
|Sarah Danby
|Main role
|-
|1969
|''[[ITV Sunday Night Theatre]]''
|Mrs. Ogden
|Episode: "It Calls for a Great Deal of Love"
|-
|1969–70
|''Ours Is a Nice House''
|Thora Parker
|TV series
|-
|1971
|''Seasons of the Year''
|Widow Butley
|Episode: "The Three Graces"
|-
|1971
|''[[Stage 2]]''
|Mrs. Hardcastle
|Episode: "She Stoops to Conquer"
|-
|1971–72, 1977, 1982
|''[[Play for Today]]''
|Gwen, Doris, Olive Major, Aunty Kitty
|Episodes: "The Fox Trot", "The Villa Maroc", "The Mayor's Charity", "Intensive Care"
|-
|1974
|''Billy Liar''
|Miss Duggins
|Episode: "Billy and the Bed-Sit"
|-
|1975
|''[[Softly, Softly: Task Force]]''
|Mary Meegan
|Episode: "Dorothy's Birthday"
|-
|1977
|''{{sortname|The|Boys and Mrs B}}''
|Mrs. Battley
|TV short
|-
|1977
|''Young at Heart''
|Ethel Collyer
|Episode: "Pilot"
|-
|1978
|''[[Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf]]''
|Mrs. Hopkins
|TV film
|-
|1979
|''[[Thomas & Sarah]]''
|Mrs. Entwistle
|Episode: "Made in Heaven"
|-
|1979–86
|''[[In Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]''
|Ivy Unsworth
|Main role
|-
|1980–82
|''Flesh and Blood''
|Mabel Brassington
|TV series
|-
|1983
|''Objects of Affection''
|Elizabeth Mary Rhodes
|Episode: "Say Something Happened"
|-
|1983–84
|''[[Hallelujah! (TV series)|Hallelujah!]]''
|Capt. Emily Ridley
|Main role
|-
|1986–2003
|''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''
|[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Edie Pegden|Edie Pegden]]
|Regular role
|-
|1988, 1998
|''[[Talking Heads (British TV series)|Talking Heads]]''
|Doris, Violet
|Episodes: "A Cream Cracker Under the Settee", "Waiting for the Telegram"
|-
|1989
|''{{sortname|The|Tailor of Gloucester|The Tailor of Gloucester (film)}}''
|Mrs. Speck
|TV film
|-
|1989–90
|''[[All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small]]''
|Mrs. Clarke
|Episodes: "The Best Time", "Promises to Keep"
|-
|1990
|''{{sortname|The|Tale of Little Pig Robinson|nolink=1}}''
|Old Betsy
|TV film
|-
|1991
|''[[Perfect Scoundrels]]''
|Martha
|Episode: "Grandmother's Footsteps"
|-
|1992
|''{{sortname|The|Good Guys|The Good Guys (British TV series)}}''
|Edna Wood
|Episode: "Her Finest Hour"
|-
|1992
|''Memento Mori''
|Jean Taylor
|[[Screen Two#Series_Eight|Screen Two]] series 8
|-
|1993
|''[[Wide-Eyed and Legless]]''<br>(known as ''The Wedding Gift'' outside the UK)
|Annie Longden
|
|-
|1993
|''[[Goggle-Eyes#Television adaptation|Goggle Eyes]]''
|Mrs. Harrington
|Episode: "1.1"
|-
|1994
|''[[Pat and Margaret]]''
|Jim's mother
|
|-
|1994
|''[[Under the Hammer]]''
|Nanny Tucker
|Episode: "The Spectre at the Feast"
|-
|1994
|''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''
|Hannah Stockdale
|Episode: "Lost and Found"
|-
|1995, 1999
|''{{sortname|The|Queen's Nose|The Queen's Nose (TV series)}}''
|Postmistress
|Episodes: "1.1", "1.4", "Harmony's Return"
|-
|1998
|''[[Dinnerladies (TV series)|Dinnerladies]]''
|Enid
|Episode: "Moods"
|-
|1999
|''{{sortname|The|Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything}}''
|Ida
|Episode: "Philosophy of a Hairdresser"
|-
|1999
|''[[Hilltop Hospital]]''
|Gracey Greyshell
|Episode: "Gracey Greyshell's Last Day"
|-
|1999
|''[[Lost for Words (1999 film)|Lost for Words]]''
|Annie Longden
|TV film
|}

== Bibliography ==
* Dame Thora Hird's autobiography, ''Scene And Hird'' (1976), {{ISBN| 978-0491019651}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0386331}}
* {{screenonline name|id=528242|name=Thora Hird}}
* {{Discogs artist}}
* "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2853893.stm Actress Dame Thora Hird dies]" – BBC News article, last updated 15 March 2003
* "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/946854.stm Obituary: Dame Thora Hird]" – [[BBC News]] obituary, last updated 15 March 2003
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,915521,00.html Dame Thora Hird] – obituary from ''[[The Guardian]]'', by Veronica Horwell, dated 17 March 2003

{{British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 1980–1999}}
{{RTS Programme Award for Best Performance by a Female Actor}}

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