Thora Hird
| Sign | Gemini |
| Born | May 28, 1911 Morecambe, Lancashire |
| Died | Mar 15, 2003 Brinsworth House, Twickenham |
| Age | Died at 91 |
Thora Hird | |
| Job | Actress |
| Known for | Maids, landladies, cleaners, shop-women, forth-right parents |
| Top Roles | Mrs. Ada Lapford, Mrs. Rothwell, Mrs. Gaye, Kelly's landlady, Mrs. Taylor |
| Top Genres | Drama, Comedy, Crime, War, Thriller/Suspense, Romance |
| Top Topics | World War II, Romance (Drama), Prison |
| Top Collaborators | Michael Balcon (Producer), Marianne Stone, Basil Sydney, Joss Ambler |
| Shares birthday with | Minna Gombell, Carroll Baker, Irwin Winkler see more.. |
Thora Hird Overview:
Character actress, Thora Hird, was born on May 28, 1911 in Morecambe, Lancashire. Hird died at the age of 91 on Mar 15, 2003 in Brinsworth House, Twickenham .
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Thora Hird was a dynamic British character actress with a career that spanned eight decades. Although from the coast of Lancashire, she proved adept at a variety of terrace-row accents, and played maids, landladies, cleaners, shop-women and forth-right parents. She was also popular on a number of TV series including the British sitcoms "Meet the Wife" and "Last of the Summer Wine". She is the mother of former child star Janette Scott.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).HONORS and AWARDS:
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Thora Hird Quotes:
Mrs. Rothwell:
How dare you! How dare you say such filthy, disgusting things! You come into this house drunk, filthy drunk! You're filthy! You talk filth, you ARE filth! You're filth! You filthy pig! You filthy, disgusting pig! Filth, FILTH!
Sal Brown: [on husbands lack of height] If you pulled your socks up you'd blindfold yourself
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Sal Brown: [on husbands lack of height] If you pulled your socks up you'd blindfold yourself
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