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  • A Kind Of Loving
  • A Kind Of Loving review by from North East Lincs, England
    Rated - 5 stars 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...  
  • The Nightcomers
  • The Nightcomers review by from Bury, Lancashire.
    Rated - 3 stars One of Michael Winner's less well-known films 9 May 2004
    ...ttractively-shot quality transfer to DVD. Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham and Thora Hird together in one film - that's reason enough to take a look! Brando gives an od...  
  • The Quatermass Experiment
  • The Quatermass Experiment review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars Classic sci-fi 29 July 2004
    ...ll-known old-time Brit actors (including Dixon of Dock Green as the top cop and Thora Hird as a bag lady). It also makes some ever-so-slightly thought-provoking comment o...  

Thora Hird - filmography


  • Lost For Words (1998)
    Starring: Thora Hird,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Alan Bell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 103 members
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  • Wide-Eyed and Legless (1994)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Thora Hird,  Moya Brady
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
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  • Pat And Margaret on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Victoria Wood,  Julie Walters,  Thora Hird
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 593 members
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  • Hallelujah - Series 2 on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Garfield Morgan,  Thora Hird,  David Daker
    Director: Ronnie Baxter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 17 members
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  • In Loving Memory - Series 3 (1982)
    Starring: Christopher Beeny,  Thora Hird
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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  • Hallelujah - Series 1 on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Thora Hird,  Pasty Rowlands,  David Daker
    Director: Ronnie Baxter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 22 members
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  • In Loving Memory - Series 2 (1980)
    Starring: Thora Hird,  Christopher Beeny
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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  • In Loving Memory - Series 1 (1979)
    Starring: Christopher Beeny,  Thora Hird
    Director: Ronnie Baxter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 9 members
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  • The Nightcomers on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Stephanie Beacham,  Thora Hird
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 295 members
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  • A Kind Of Loving on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Alan Bates,  June Ritchie,  Thora Hird
    Director: John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,062 member
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  • Further Up The Creek on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Shirley Eaton,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 220 members
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  • The Quatermass Experiment on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Brian Donlevy,  Jack Warner,  Thora Hird
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,557 member
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  • Two Thousand Women on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Phyllis Calvert,  Flora Robson,  Patricia Roc
    Director: Frank Launder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 11 members
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  • Next Of Kin on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Mervyn Johns,  John Chandos,  Nova Pilbeam
    Director: Thorold Dickinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 86 members
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  • Simon And Laura
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Kay Kendall,  Muriel Pavlow
    Director: Muriel Box
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 54% from 7 members
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  • Simon and Laura to Watch Now (1955)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Kay Kendall,  Muriel Pavlow
    Director: Muriel Box
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 88 minutes
    In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the show. Actors they may be, but happily married they most surely ..read more »
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Thora Hird facts

5 most recent films

Lost For Words - 4.0 stars
Wide-Eyed and Legless - 2.5 stars
Pat And Margaret - 4.0 stars
Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 11 and 12 - 4.0 stars
Hallelujah - Series 2 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 11 and 12 - 4.0 stars
Talking Heads - The Complete Talking Heads - 4.0 stars
Lost For Words - 4.0 stars
Pat And Margaret - 4.0 stars
A Kind Of Loving - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Wide-Eyed and Legless - 2.5 stars
Flesh And Blood - Part 2 - 2.5 stars
Simon And Laura - 3.0 stars
Two Thousand Women - 3.0 stars
In Loving Memory - Series 1 - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Norman Wisdom - 5 times - show films
Shirley Abicair - 4 times - show films
Joan Rice - 4 times - show films
Christopher Beeny - 3 times - show films
Ian Carmichael - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 4 times - show films
John Paddy Carstairs - 4 times - show films
Ronnie Baxter - 3 times - show films
Terence Dudley - 2 times - show films
Muriel Box - 2 times - show films