Thora hird biography
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Had Thora Hird retired at sixty, she would have had a solid career behind her as a versatile stage and screen actress equally at home in comedy (talent-spotted by George Formby, she made her screen debut opposite Will Hay in The Black Sheep of Whitehall, d.
Thora hird biography
Basil Dearden, 1941) and drama (The Entertainer, d. Tony Richardson, 1960), gritty realism (the waspish mother-in-law in A Kind of Loving, d. John Schlesinger, 1962), airy fantasy (Anna Neagle musical comedies The Courtneys of Curzon Street and Maytime in Mayfair, d.
Herbert Wilcox, 1947/49) and even sci-fi and horror (The Quatermass Xperiment, d.
Dame thora hird biography
Val Guest, 1955; The Nightcomers, d. Michael Winner, 1971). Although rarely cast in lead roles and often given little material to work with, she nonetheless made an indelible impression whenever she was on screen despite, as she herself put it, not being at the front of the queue when looks were given out.
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