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Thora Hird
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Filmography
Thora Hird - what members say
review by from North East Lincs, England
They don't make them like this anymore!! 17 February 2005
review by from Bury, Lancashire.
One of Michael Winner's less well-known films 9 May 2004
review by A customer from London, England
Classic sci-fi 29 July 2004
Thora Hird - filmography
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 21 and ...
(2000)
Starring: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton
Director: Alan J. W. Bell
Certificate: 
Two more series of the long running BBC comedy. Three elderly delinquents have a series of wacky misadventures as they enjoy their retirement. The envy of their hen-pecked married friends, they embark on mischievous stunts as if in their second childhood. Old age never seemed so much fun!
 
63%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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Lost For Words
on DVD
(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 »
78%
from 593 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 »
61%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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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 »
77%
from 828 members
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In Loving Memory - Series 5
(1986)
Starring: Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny, Sherrie Hewson
Director: none
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, circumstance that ..read more »
60%
from 5 members
Not available for rental
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In Loving Memory - Series 4
(1984)
Starring: Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny, Colin Farrell
Director: none
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, circumstance that ..read more »
40%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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Hallelujah - Series 2
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Garfield Morgan, Thora Hird, David Daker
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
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 »
72%
from 37 members
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Hallelujah
(1983)
Starring: Thora Hird, Patsy Rowlands, Rosamund Greenwood
Director: Roger Delattre
Certificate:
Award-winning comedienne Thora Hird plays Emily Ridley, a Salvation Army captain who refuses to be put out to pasture. Ridley and recent-enlistee Sister Alice (Patsy Rowlands) head for Yorkshire to browbeat the pub-goers into submission. Features the first series of the show.
20%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
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In Loving Memory - Series 3
(1982)
Starring: Christopher Beeny, Thora Hird
Director: none
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, circumstance that ..read more »
55%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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Hallelujah - Series 1
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Thora Hird, Pasty Rowlands, David Daker
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Certificate:
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 »
68%
from 45 members
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In Loving Memory - Series 2
(1980)
Starring: Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
Director: none
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, circumstance that ..read more »
100%
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 »
62%
from 14 members
Not available for rental
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The Nightcomers
(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 »
47%
from 325 members
Currently unavailable
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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.
73%
from 1,354 member
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The Entertainer
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate:
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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 »
66%
from 646 members
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Further Up The Creek
(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 »
62%
from 284 members
Not currently released
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Home And Away
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Thora Hird
Director: Vernon Sewell
Certificate:
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.
61%
from 107 members
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Love Match
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Arthur Askey, Thora Hird, William Franklyn
Director: David Paltenghi
Certificate:
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!
64%
from 140 members
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Odile Versois, Donald Sinden
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate: 
Arts history programme following the sculptor Paul Day as he creates the Battle of Brtain Monument sited on London's Victoria Embankment. As well as exploring Day's career and his thoughts on his commission, the programme also focuses on the Battle of Britain itself and includes interviews with ..read more »
22%
from 5 members
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The Great Game
(1953)
Starring: James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors
Director: Maurice Elvey
Certificate:
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
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Currently unavailable
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Bill Owen
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
A Day to Remember is a 1953 British comedy drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring an ensemble cast including Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Bill Owen and Thora Hird. The darts team of a London public house go on a day trip to Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. Members of the party have ..read more »
61%
from 15 members
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Time Gentlemen Please
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Thora Hird, Dora Bryan, Raymond Lovell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
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
65%
from 281 members
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Once A Jolly Swagman
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Renee Asherson
Director: Jack Lee
Certificate:
Bill Fox is a factory worker in the 1930s who leaves his job to become a motorbike rider. He soon becomes succesful but his ego expands until a tragedy on the racecourse brings him back to his senses...
70%
from 40 members
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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 »
64%
from 36 members
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Next Of Kin
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Certificate:
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 »
66%
from 137 members
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Simon And Laura
Starring: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow
Director: Muriel Box
Certificate:
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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...
72%
from 27 members
Not available for rental
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Golden Years Of British Comedy
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Sid James, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe
Certificate:
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.
55%
from 145 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
78%
from 941 members
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 19 and ...
Starring: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton
Director: Alan J. W. Bell
Certificate:
Two more series of the long running BBC comedy. Three elderly delinquents have a series of wacky misadventures as they enjoy their retirement. The envy of their hen-pecked married friends, they embark on mischievous stunts as if in their second childhood. Old age never seemed so much fun!
60%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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Thora Hird facts
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...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...
