Thora Hird Net Worth is$300,000 Thora Hird Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
In a career than spanned eight decades, Thora Hird was widely-regarded as one of Britain's finest character actresses. She made over 100 films as well as starring in a host of TV comedies and, as a straight actress, excelled in the works of playwright Alan Bennett. Even in her 90s, she was working almost daily. Born in Morecambe, Lancashire, the ...
Date Of Birth May 28, 1911 Died 2003-03-15 Place Of Birth Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Profession Actress Spouse James Scott Star Sign Gemini
# Quote 1 "Always start with the feet," she said, referring to being costumed.
# Fact 1 A memorial service was held for her at Westminster Abbey on 15 September 2003. 2 Daughter of James Henry Hird, former manager of the Royalty Theatre, Morecambe. 3 Hird had an older brother Neville and an older sister Olga. 4 On 13 September 2013 a memorial plaque to her was unveiled in Morecambe near where she was born. It is outside the Eric Bartholomew pub, named in honour of Eric Morecambe whose real surname was Bartholomew and who was also born in the town. 5 Grandmother of Daisy Tormé and James Tormé . 6 Knighted (in her eighties) as a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) for her contributions to the arts. 7 She was the subject of BBC1's "This Is Your Life" at Christmas 1996. 8 She made guest appearances, during the 1990s, in such BBC programmes as That's Showbusiness (1989) and One Foot in the Past (1993). 9 For several years, she was presenter of the BBC1 religious programme, "Your Songs Of Praise Choice" (later retitled Praise Be (1981)), from the mid-1970s. 10 She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama and the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. 11 Mother of Janette Scott and thus ex-mother-in-law of Mel Tormé .
Actress Title Year Status Character The Adventures of Robin Hood 1955 TV Series Ada Simon and Laura 1955 Jessie Cross-Up 1955 Mary, farm girl The Quatermass Xperiment 1955 Rosemary 'Rosie' Elizabeth Wrigley The Queen Came By 1955 TV Movie Emmie Slee, in Millinery The Love Match 1955 Sal Brown One Good Turn 1955 Cook Shop Spoiled 1954 Customer Cocktails in the Kitchen 1954 Mrs. Doyle Don't Blame the Stork 1954 Agnes O'Connor A Day to Remember 1953 Mrs. Trott Edge of Divorce 1953 Mrs. Humphries Personal Affair 1953 Mrs. Usher The Love Match 1953 TV Movie Sal Brown Turn the Key Softly 1953 Mrs. Rowan, landlady Both Sides of the Law 1953 Mrs. Perkins (woman at police station) The Long Memory 1953 Mrs. Pewsey The Great Game 1953 Miss Rawlings The Big Frame 1952 Hotel Maid Time, Gentlemen, Please! 1952 Alice Crouch The Hundred Hour Hunt 1952 Mrs. Cornelius The Frightened Man 1952 Vera The Magic Box 1951 Doctor's Housekeeper What Happens to Love 1951 TV Movie Mrs. Rowbotham BBC Sunday-Night Theatre 1951 TV Series Anna Priashkina The Galloping Major 1951 Bit part (uncredited) The Magnet 1950 Nannie's Friend Once a Sinner 1950 Mrs. James The Cure for Love 1949 Mrs. Dorbell The Winslow Boy 1949 TV Movie Violet Boys in Brown 1949 Mrs. Knowles Maytime in Mayfair 1949 Janet Madness of the Heart 1949 Rosa Conspirator 1949 Broaders A Boy, a Girl and a Bike 1949 Mrs. Bates Fools Rush In 1949 Mrs. Coot Lost Daughter 1949 Mrs. Skinner Maniacs on Wheels 1949 Ma Fox The Blind Goddess 1948 Derek's Charwoman The Weaker Sex 1948 Mrs. Gaye My Brother Jonathan 1948 Ada Corridor of Mirrors 1948 Visitor in Tussauds Mary Rose 1947 TV Movie Mrs. Otery Kathy's Love Affair 1947 Maud Mock Auctions 1947 TV Short Shipwreck 1947 TV Movie Landlady Two Thousand Women 1944 Mrs. Burtshaw The Lodger 1944 Katie, first murder victim (uncredited) Go to Blazes 1942 Short Elsie Went the Day Well? 1942 Ivy The Foreman Went to France 1942 Barmaid (uncredited) The Next of Kin 1942 ATS drover with puncture The Big Blockade 1942 German barmaid (uncredited) Black Sheep of Whitehall 1942 Joyce Last of the Summer Wine 1986-2003 TV Series Edie Julie and the Cadillacs 1999 Julie's grandmother The Queen's Nose 1995-1999 TV Series Postmistress Masterpiece Classic 1999 TV Series Annie Longden Hilltop Hospital 1999 TV Series Gracey Greyshell Lost for Words 1999 TV Movie Annie Longden (as Dame Thora Hird) Dinnerladies 1998 TV Series Enid Talking Heads 2 1998 TV Mini-Series Violet Heartbeat 1994 TV Series Hannah Stockdale Screen One 1993-1994 TV Series Jim's Mother / Deric's Mother Under the Hammer 1994 TV Series Nanny Tucker Goggle Eyes 1993 TV Mini-Series Mrs. Harrington Screen Two 1992 TV Series Jean Taylor The Good Guys 1992 TV Series Edna Wood Perfect Scoundrels 1991 TV Series Martha All Creatures Great and Small 1989-1990 TV Series Mrs. Clarke / Mrs. Clarke (as Mrs Clarke also) The Tailor of Gloucester 1989 TV Movie Mrs. Speck Talking Heads 1988 TV Mini-Series Doris Consuming Passions 1988 Mrs. Gordon In Loving Memory 1979-1986 TV Series Ivy Unsworth Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV 1985 TV Series Grandmother (in photo) Hallelujah! 1983-1984 TV Series Captain Emily Ridley / Captain Agnes Ridley Entry 1983 Short Narrator Objects of Affection 1982 TV Series Elizabeth Mary Rhodes Play for Today 1971-1982 TV Series Aunty Kitty / Olive Major / Doris / ... Flesh and Blood 1980-1982 TV Series Mabel Brassington Thomas and Sarah 1979 TV Series Mrs. Entwistle Afternoon Off 1979 TV Movie Mrs Beevers Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1978 TV Movie Mrs. Hopkins Young at Heart 1977 TV Series Ethel Collyer The Boys and Mrs B 1977 TV Short Mrs. Battley BBC Play of the Month 1967-1975 TV Series Clare Soppitt / Nurse Softly Softly: Task Force 1975 TV Series Mary Meegan Billy Liar 1974 TV Series Miss Duggins The Nightcomers 1971 Mrs. Grose Stage 2 1971 TV Series Mrs. Hardcastle Seasons of the Year 1971 TV Series Widow Butley Ours Is a Nice House 1969-1970 TV Series Thora Parker It's Tommy Cooper 1970 TV Series Guest Some Will, Some Won't 1970 Agnes Russell ITV Saturday Night Theatre 1969 TV Series Mrs Ogden The First Lady 1968-1969 TV Series Sarah Danby Meet the Wife 1963-1966 TV Series Thora Blacklock Jackanory 1966 TV Series Storyteller Dixon of Dock Green 1966 TV Series Alice Leggett The Wednesday Play 1966 TV Series Blanche Hoskins A Christmas Night with the Stars 1964 TV Series Thora Blacklock - Meet the Wife segment Rattle of a Simple Man 1964 Mrs. Winthram Festival 1964 TV Series Mrs. Baines First Night 1964 TV Series Queenie Comedy Playhouse 1963 TV Series Thora Blacklock Bitter Harvest 1963 Mrs. Jessup Drama 61-67 1963 TV Series Mrs. Hope Z Cars 1963 TV Series Mrs. Edwards Term of Trial 1962 Mrs. Taylor The Best Laid Schemes 1962 TV Short BBC Sunday-Night Play 1960-1962 TV Mini-Series Aggie Thompson / Emmie Slee A Kind of Loving 1962 Mrs. Rothwell Over the Odds 1961 Mrs. Carter ITV Television Playhouse 1961 TV Series Helen Curvis Bootsie and Snudge 1960 TV Series Emily The Entertainer 1960 Ada Lapford Blackpool Show Parade 1959 TV Series Saturday Playhouse 1958 TV Series Aggie Thompson Armchair Theatre 1956-1958 TV Series Momma Brodsky Further Up the Creek 1958 Mrs. Galloway A Clean Sweep 1958 Short Vera Watson Dangerous Youth 1957 Mrs. Larkin The Good Companions 1957 Mrs. Oakroyd Home and Away 1956 Margie Groves Panic in the Parlor 1956 Mrs. Lack Blonde Bait 1956 'Granny' Ramsey Women Without Men 1956 Granny Rafferty Now and Forever 1956 Maggie the Maid (uncredited) Tears for Simon 1956 Kelly's landlady Home James 1956 TV Series
Self Title Year Status Character Open House 2002 TV Series documentary Herself Funny Turns 2001 TV Series documentary Herself The BAFTA TV Awards 2000 2000 TV Movie documentary Herself The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything 1999 TV Special Ida (as Dame Thora Hird) Heroes of Comedy 1999 TV Series documentary Herself / Various Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python 1999 TV Movie documentary Herself / Alan Bennett Funny Women 1999 TV Series documentary short Herself / Various Characters Blankety Blank 1979-1999 TV Series Herself The British Comedy Awards 1998 1998 TV Special documentary Herself Best of British 1998 TV Series Herself / Jim's Mother 25 Years of 'Last of the Summer Wine' 1997 TV Movie documentary Herself The Frank Skinner Show 1997 TV Series Herself An Audience with Bruce Forsyth 1997 TV Movie Herself This Is Your Life 1996 TV Series documentary Herself The South Bank Show 1994 TV Series documentary Herself Thora on the Straight and Narrow 1993 TV Series Herself - Presenter Classic Coronation Street 1993/I TV Movie Herself Celebrity Squares 1993 TV Series Herself Fighting Back 1992 TV Series Herself You Bet! 1989 TV Series Herself A Question of Entertainment 1988 TV Series Herself Looks Familiar 1976-1986 TV Series Herself - Guest Topping on Sunday 1982 TV Series Herself The Basil Brush Show 1979 TV Series Herself Those Wonderful TV Times 1976-1978 TV Series Herself Tell Me Another 1977 TV Series Herself Film Night 1971 TV Series Herself Holiday Startime Special 1970 TV Movie Herself Dee Time 1967 TV Series Herself Late Show London 1966 TV Series Herself Stars and Garters 1965 TV Series Herself Juke Box Jury 1965 TV Series Herself - Panellist The Anne Shelton Show 1959 TV Series Herself The Jimmy Wheeler Show 1956 TV Series Herself Home James 1956 TV Series Herself
Won Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 2000 BAFTA TV Award BAFTA Awards Best Actress Lost for Words (1999) 2000 RTS Television Award Royal Television Society, UK Best Actor - Female Lost for Words (1999) 1999 BAFTA TV Award BAFTA Awards Best Actress Talking Heads 2 (1998) 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award British Comedy Awards 1989 BAFTA TV Award BAFTA Awards Best Actress Talking Heads (1987)
Nominated Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1999 National Television Award National Television Awards, UK Most Popular Actress Lost for Words (1999)
Known for movies Last of the Summer Wine (1986-2003)
Meet the Wife (1963-1966)
The First Lady (1968-1969)
In Loving Memory (1979-1986)
$300,000
