Thora Hird Yahoo! Movies  British stage and screen actress Thora Hird specialized in loquacious working class types. The wide-eyed, thin-lipped actress seemed destined from birth to portray maids, landladies, clerks and charwomen. To add variety to this narrow acting category, Hird became an expert...

BBC NEWS Entertainment TV and Radio Actress Dame Thora Hird dies  Hird has died at the age of 91, her agent confirmed on Saturday. The veteran actress, who starred in Last Of The Summer Wine, suffered a stroke earlier this month at her London nursing home. The much-loved actress was known...

Hird, Thora  Her career spans some eighty years, from her earliest stage appearance at eight weeks old to the present day; it encompasses work in a range of media forms, including radio broadcasting and appearances in over one hundred films. In television,...

Untitled Document  Heads cameos were proof of her remarkable talent as a serious performer and won her a BAFTA award for Best Actress. She also starred in the staggering 1999 drama Lost for Words, which won an Emmy. Thora's appearances in everything...

Thora Hird  In a career than spanned eight decades Thora Hird was widely regarded show more) Sometimes Credited As: Alan BennettDame Thora Hird IMDbPro Professional Details Filmography as:Actress, Herself, Notable TV Guest Appearances Actress filmography (1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s) The...

Perspective UK North  The most extraordinary thing about Dame Thora Hird, who died at the age of 91,.was her ordinariness. All her talents were well masked. Whereas Oscar Wilde said he had nothing to declare but his genius, she would have vehemently declared...