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Thora Hird
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Thora Hird - filmography
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Lost For Words
(1998)
Starring: Thora Hird, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Alan Bell
Certificate: 
Masterpiece Theatre presents this heart-warming but bittersweet story about the relationship between a unique mother and her son. Based on Deric Longden's autobiographical account of his mother's battle with the onset of old age. Pete Postlethwaite stars as Deric alongside Dame Thora Hird as his ..read more »
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76%
from 103 members
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Pat And Margaret
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Thora Hird
Director: Gavin Millar
Certificate: 
The irresistible teaming of Victoria Wood and Julie Walters returns for this drama centring on two long-lost sisters who discover they have nothing in common but a shared past. Having drifted apart, the lives of sisters Pat and Margaret couldn’t have turned out more differently. Pat has become a ..read more »
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77%
from 582 members
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Wide-Eyed and Legless
(1994)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Thora Hird, Moya Brady
Director: Richard Loncraine
Certificate: 
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but ..read more »
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47%
from 4 members
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Hallelujah - Series 2
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Garfield Morgan, Thora Hird, David Daker
Director: Ronnie Baxter
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Dame Thora Hird stars in one of her own personal favourite roles as the balmiest woman in the Salvation Army! The Sally Army are in need of some salvation themselves - salvation that is from their own dotty Captain Emily Ridley (Thora Hird). For over forty-two years, Captain Emily has been in the ..read more »
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70%
from 17 members
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In Loving Memory - Series 3
(1982)
Starring: Christopher Beeny, Thora Hird
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IN LOVING MEMORY is a British period comedy from the late 70s starring Thora Hird as the main lead, Ivy. Ivy’s husband, an undertaker, dies and she decides to take over the family business with her nephew Billy’s help. Unfortunately none of them are really experts in the field, circumstance that ..read more »
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from 1 member
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Hallelujah - Series 1
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Thora Hird, Pasty Rowlands, David Daker
Director: Ronnie Baxter
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Dame Thora Hird stars in one of her own personal favourite roles as the balmiest woman in the Salvation Army! The Sally Army are in need of some salvation themselves - salvation that is from their own dotty Captain Emily Ridley (Thora Hird). For over forty-two years, Captain Emily has been in the ..read more »
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65%
from 22 members
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In Loving Memory - Series 2
(1980)
Starring: Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
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IN LOVING MEMORY is a British period comedy from the late 70s starring Thora Hird as the main lead, Ivy. Ivy's husband, an undertaker, dies and she decides to take over the family business with her nephew Billy's help. Unfortunately none of them are really experts in the field, circumstance that ..read more »
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from 1 member
Not available for rental
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In Loving Memory - Series 1
(1979)
Starring: Christopher Beeny, Thora Hird
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
IN LOVING MEMORY is a British period comedy from the late 70s starring Thora Hird as the main lead, Ivy. Ivy's husband, an undertaker, dies and she decides to take over the family business with her nephew Billy's help. Unfortunately none of them are really experts in the field, which generates a ..read more »
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70%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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The Nightcomers
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
Isolated in a traditional English country manor, two rich orphans--Miles (Christopher Ellis) and Flora (Verna Harvey)--have only their nurse, their housekeeper, and a strange gardener named Quint (Marlon Brando) to provide them with company and care. The youngsters are particularly intrigued by ..read more »
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47%
from 290 members
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A Kind Of Loving
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate: 
Drama based on the novel by Stan Barstow which tells of a young draughtsman who is forced into marriage after making his girlfriend pregnant. Living with her dragon-like mother soon makes him realise that his marriage is just a fragile relationship based purely on sex.
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72%
from 1,050 member
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The Entertainer
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
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Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of Britain's New Wave kitchen-sink realism, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne, by starring as third-rate seaside comedian Archie Rice ..read more »
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64%
from 487 members
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Further Up The Creek
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, David Tomlinson
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
Further Up The Creek Serves Up Nautical Naughtiness Aplenty! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs. First to go is HMS Aristotle the secret shame of the Fleet! Under the temporary command of Bosun Dibble (Frankie Howerd), the ..read more »
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61%
from 218 members
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Home And Away
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Thora Hird
Director: Vernon Sewell
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British comedy drama starring Jack Warner and Thora Hird. George Knowles (Warner) thinks he's scooped the jackpot on the pools, but when the real owner of the coupon is revealed everyone wants a piece.
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59%
from 71 members
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The Quatermass Experiment
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Thora Hird
Director: Val Guest
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A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in England two crew members have disappeared but the third, who is barely alive, turns into a 'thing'. The 'thing' starts killing humans and animals to feed its transformation...
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61%
from 1,556 member
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Two Thousand Women
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc
Director: Frank Launder
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The '2000 Women' of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of the women don't get along, they are united in their hatred for their Nazi captors. The story takes a truly melodramatic turn when three English airmen parachute into the camp, ..read more »
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60%
from 11 members
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Next Of Kin
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam
Director: Thorold Dickinson
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The Imperial War Museum Collection features rare and fascinating original films preserved in the Museum's vaults. Many have never been released to the public before. The collection of four rare, dramatised films presented here capture life in Britain during World War Two, both on the Home Front ..read more »
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62%
from 83 members
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Simon And Laura
Starring: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow
Director: Muriel Box
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A television producer decides to base a drama series on a happily married couple of actors. However, their marriage isn't as happy as it seems...
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54%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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Time Gentlemen Please
on DVD
Starring: Thora Hird, Dora Bryan, Raymond Lovell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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The PM is planning a celebration visit to the model village of Little Hayhoe. However, local lay-about Dan Dance refuses to work, so he's shipped off to the local almshouse where he awaits an uncertain, yet very funny future
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65%
from 163 members
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Love Match
on DVD
Starring: Arthur Askey, Thora Hird, William Franklyn
Director: David Paltenghi
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After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his fine. Now he has to get the money back by hook or by crook!
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66%
from 103 members
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Golden Years Of British Comedy
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Sid James, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe
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Features a compilation of comedy moments from the forties, fifties and sixties. Features such comedy greats as Tommy Trinder, George Formby, Terry Thomas, Arthur Askey, Sid James, Spike Milligan, Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom and many more.
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54%
from 118 members
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Talking Heads - The Complete Talking Heads
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Alan Bennett, Maggic Smith, Thora Hird
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Alan Bennett's compilation of monologues first transmitted in 1988. Features: A Cip in the Sugar, A Lady of Letters, Bed Among the Lentils, Soldering On, Her Big CHance, A Cream Cracker Under the Setee, Miss Fozzard finds her Feet, and more
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77%
from 804 members
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They don't make them like this anymore!! 17 February 2005
...What a great film! Brilliant cast, Thora Hird, Alan Bates, James Bolam, and of course the late Leonard Rossiter. I first watched this film well over 20 years ago, and tho...
One of Michael Winner's less well-known films 9 May 2004
