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	Thora Hird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms Meet the Wife (a 1960s classic) and later series of Last of the Summer Wine.
		Dame Thora's talent for comedy was shown to good effect in her performance as the potential battleaxe mother-in-law to Victoria Wood's character in the TV film Pat and Margaret.
		Thora Hird's energy and resilience were such that, even following the news that she had suffered a stroke, BBC bosses were still hoping that she would recover in order to appear in the next series of Last of the Summer Wine.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thora_Hird (372 words)

	News Releases - University of Central Lancashire
		Dame Thora Hird has been taking curtain calls since she was eight weeks old, and throughout a long and popular career has won the hearts of millions on stage, screen and television.
		Thora Hird continued her acting success onto the small screen where she at once became endeared to millions in Meet the Wife co-starring with the late Freddie Frinton, and several series of The First Lady.
		Thora Hird's contribution to the acting profession has been acknowledged with national honours, the OBE in 1983 and she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993.
	www.uclan.ac.uk /news/2000/web263.htm (421 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Obituary: Dame Thora Hird
		Her dad, James Henry Hird, was manager of the Royalty theatre, and later of the entertainments on the pier, where a weekly ticket admitted holidaymakers to a pocket opera company and Madame Rosa Vere, who dived off in red tights every high tide, after which her mother passed the hat.
		Thora's own mother, Mary, had carried her daughter on stage at eight weeks old; mam was acting a lass who had been done wrong by the squire's son, and the bundled baby played the result.
		Hird's conversation shared with Bennett's writing the exactly-placed names - a cup of Horlicks, a tumbler of dandelion and burdock - and a sense of a vast, lost innocence, of a world where knobbly knees were life's norm.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,915465,00.html (1281 words)

	Hird, Thora
		All of these roles offered Hird the opportunity to exercise her particular brand of Lancastrian wit, which may be firmly located within the music hall based tradition of northern, working class comedy, characteristically "down to earth", anecdotal and always constructed in opposition to the "pretentious and privileged" south of England.
		In much the same vein as the seaside postcards of her Morecombe birth place, Hird's typical roles are as an all-seeing boarding house landlady, a gossiping neighbour, or as a sharp tongued mother-in-law, in each case the "eyes and ears" of the (female) community.
		Whilst Hird has earnt considerable recognition and respect within her profession, critical and audience acclaim for many of her roles, and was the subject of a South Bank Show monograph in 1995, there is yet to be an academic study of her contributions to television.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hirdthora/hirdthora.htm (563 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thora Hird, one of Britain’s best-known TV personalities, died at the age of 91 in March 2003 ending a career that had lasted almost a century.
		At the end of July 1911 Thora Hird trod, or rather was carried on, the boards for the first time at the tender age of eight weeks old.
		Thora's appearances in everything from Memento Mori to Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies have endeared her to a nation.
	authorpages.hoddersystems.com /ThoraHird (229 words)

	Thora Hird was My Aunt
		Hird but most of them (and they should thank the fucking Lord from the lowest of their intestines for this) were not actually related to the carrier bag jawed sea-urchin.
		Thora was understandably hit, on purpose, by the good natured and speeding driver of a Ford Ka she hadn't actually had any legs.
		Thora, mother reported to us over an evening's offal, was feeling in high spirits; she was getting around now and feeling a new sense of freedom.
	www.brass.cream.org /thora.html (1019 words)

	Television Heaven
		Her parents, James and Mary Hird, had met whilst touring together in the same theatrical company and eight weeks after she was born, on 28th May 1911, Thora made her stage debut (in her mothers arms) at the Royalty Theatre in Morecambe, where James was the manager.
		Thora took her seat and hoped that her outburst the previous day would be overlooked, but she was to have no such luck.
		Thora was cast as Ivy Unsworth (a part played by Marjorie Rhodes in the pilot), a widower who acquires her husbands business, which is, of all things, a funeral parlour.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /thorahird.htm (3057 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Not in the Diary [Audiobook] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thora is a wonderful encourager, and her recognition of Derec Longden's comedy talents, and the ability of Alan Bennett to write words that are truly meaningful, like his 'Fish and Two', has helped these writers to develop their style.
		Thora portrays very dramatically the quandry she feels as an actress having to use lines and words that could be offensive in some circles.
		Thora Hird is like the Queen Mother of show business and I hope that she will still be entertaining us when Thora is 100 years of age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1840325011 (607 words)

	Summer Wine - The News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...saddened to hear that Dame Thora Hird has died, she was a great actress, i enjoyed watching TV shows that she has been in over the last 40 years.
		Both my wife and myself were most upset to learn of the death of Dame Thora Hird although a sad occasion we hope the show goes on if only as a tribute to her.
		The way Thora looked at life and had the power to make you feel she was talking to you.
	www.area5.co.uk /summer-wine/wesley/thora/damethora.htm (2264 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - DAME THORA HIRD DIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DAME Thora Hird, the grand old lady of British drama, has died aged 91 - still longing to get back to the job she loved.
		Dame Thora, who died at a London nursing home after a stroke, was also a devout Christian and often appeared on Songs of Praise and Praise Be.
		Thora was made a Dame in 1993 - the same year her musician husband Jimmy Scott died.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12742814&method=full&siteid=50143 (346 words)

	JAM:CFreud,PJones,DNimmo,THird
		Thora Hird, will you begin the next round, and the subject is doing away with flies.
		Thora Hird did magnificently in that round entirely off his own bat, challenged herself and told herself when to start, and she has got a considerable number of points but she’s still in fourth place.
		Thora Hird coming to do battle with these giants of the game did extraordinarily well to get the number of points that she did, congratulations, and gave us tremendous value.
	deanbedford.tripod.com /jam43.html (3779 words)

	not in the diary
		In her book, "not in the diary", Dame Thora states that this is the third volume of her autobiography.
		There are frequent references to Thora's advanced age ("I'm eighty eight next Friday") and constant forays into the dim and distant past, mainly in the form of stories and tall tales about her early career in theatre.
		Apparently, Dame Thora agonised over accepting the part since it involved saying the line "Was the penis erect?".
	www.angelfire.com /ns2/phoenixbookreviews/Reviews/Thora.html (925 words)

	Thora Hird vs The Zombie Plague
		You seem a little pale?” Thora asked, placing one of her scabby decomposing arms on the woman’s shoulder.
		As Thora trundled out of the gates of the cemetery the charred and bullet-ridden corpses of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hit the ground with a dull thud.
		“These speed bumps are a nightmare” said Thora as, for the second time, she hit the tarmac with a bump and her head fell off and rolled into the gutter.
	www.peteandquiet.co.uk /Thora%20Hird%20vs%20The%20Zombie%20Plague.htm (879 words)

	Dame Thora Hird, OBE, DOTK
		Dame Thora’s career spans ninety years beginning at eight weeks old to her current starring role on the BBC television series, The Last of the Summer wine.
		Dame Thora has written several books: autobiography called Scene and Hird, the Praise Be Notebook, Praise Be Year Book, Praise Be Christmas Book, Praise Be Book of Prayers, Praise Be I Believe, and most recently Nothing Like a Dame which includes her personal testimony.
		It is with both sadness and joy that we announce the departure from this world of Dame Thora Hird on the 15th of March 2003.
	www.dotk.net /Dame_Thora_Hird.html (490 words)

	Directory - Arts: Performing Arts: Acting: Actors and Actresses: H: Hird, Thora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BBC News: Actress Dame Thora Hird dies · iweb · cached · Dame Thora Hird - one of Britain's best loved character actresses - has died at the age of 91.
		Thora Hird · cached · Biography, and details of her official biography book by Morris Bright.
		Dame Thora Hird · cached · Profile by Geoffrey Matther, following her death on 15/3/03.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=1115576 (146 words)

	screenonline: Thora Hird and Alan Bennett
		It's a devastating performance that alone would give the lie to any attempt at pigeonholing her as a light comedienne.
		"Thora was a writer's dream, an actor who took the text seriously, never paraphrasing or diverging from it in the slightest degree.
		She said what you had written, trusting you as the author to know what you were doing, her reference for the text nurtured in her early days watching and working on the plays of Harold Brighouse and Walter Greenwood.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/862169 (510 words)

	ABC Shop - Alan and Thora Alan Bennett
		Until the time of her death in 2003, much-loved actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett.
		The Last of the Sun - Dolly’s remaining days in an old people’s home are enlivened by a seemingly respectable man. Recorded in 2002, Thora Hird’s last ever performance, in a part written especially for her, is moving and memorable.
		Thora Hird won a BAFTA for Best Actress for her performance in this monologue.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=237482 (409 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Dame Thora Hird; Brilliant character actress who triumphed in later life on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Daily Telegraph (London, England): Dame Thora Hird; Brilliant character actress who triumphed in later life on television, especially in the work of Alan Bennett.(News)@ HighBeam Research
		Dame Thora Hird; Brilliant character actress who triumphed in later life on television, especially in the work of Alan Bennett.(News)
		DAME THORA HIRD, who has died aged 91, was the actress, comedienne and television presenter whose warmth, humanity and remarkable professional longevity made her a true candidate for that overworked epithet "much-loved".
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:98821328&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (218 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Actress Dame Thora Hird dies
		Actress Dame Thora Hird has died at the age of 91, her agent confirmed on Saturday.
		The triple Bafta-winning actress was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, she made her acting debut at the age of two months in 1911 when she was carried onto the stage in a play directed by her father.
		Dame Thora was was regularly seen on TV and in magazine ads as the face of Churchill's stairlifts.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2853893.stm (469 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Obituary: Dame Thora Hird
		In a career lasting almost a century, Dame Thora Hird's solid screen presence and distinctive northern tones made her an enduring favourite with British audiences.
		Thora Hird made her stage debut in 1911 at the age of two months.
		She was carried on stage at the Royalty Theatre in her native Morecambe in a play directed by her father, who was also the stage manager.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/946854.stm (534 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Thora Hird -
		Although in recent years she had been thought of as a stereotypical old woman (with many jokes about her sideline advertising stairlifts[?]), some of her youthful film work still survives, including her 1942 appearance in the classic wartime propaganda film Went the Day Well?[?].
		Dame Thora Hird (http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,915521,00) - obituary from The Guardian, by Veronica Horwell, dated March 17, 2003
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	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/th/Thora_Hird (381 words)

	The Mail on Sunday (London, England): Thora Hird ...the last of a game old gal; National treasure who starred in Last ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thora Hird...the last of a game old gal; National treasure who starred in Last Of The Summer Wine dies at 91.
		DAME Thora Hird, one of Britain's best-loved character actresses, died yesterday at the age of 91, a week after suffering a serious stroke.
		Felix de Wolfe, her longstanding agent, broke the news, saying: 'Thora was loved by all.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:98851490&refid=holomed_1 (234 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Thora Hird's Book of Bygones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In her new book, Thora Hird takes us on a trip down memory lane to the world as it was before the Second World War.
		Thora looks back at domestic life, the theatre, going to church, growing up before the war, working in shops, and, never forgetting her true Morecambe roots, the hustle and bustle of the Northern seaside town.
		In her chatty and anecdotal style, she reminds us of all those words, objects and expressions that have gone out of modern usage and illustrates them with stories from her own early years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006280684 (320 words)

	News: Dame Thora Hird dies at 91
		Veteran comedy actress Dame Thora Hird has died at the age of 91.
		Morecambe-born Dame Thora's most acclaimed roles were in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues, which won her a Bafta in 1989.
		Dame Thora was made an OBE 1983 in and a dame in 1993.
	www.chortle.co.uk /news/mar03/thora.html (286 words)

	Seabass7, Thora Hird To Become New Leader Of Daleks \| News/Features \| Seabass7.com, Seabass 7, Spoof News Articles, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		home » news/features » thora hird to become new leader of daleks...
		In a surprise move last night the Supreme Council Of The Daleks, one time sworn enemies of the Timelord known as Dr. Who, voted unanimously for their new Leader to be none other than dead pensioners favourite Thora Hird.
		Never in all my day have I read an article that is in such dis-taste as this, the woman is hardly in her box more than 2 or 3 weeks and you's callous shire b's are ripping the piss out of a lovely woman.
	www.seabass7.com /News/ViewStory.cfm?News_Id=199 (332 words)

	Dame Thora Hird, Ôa true original star', dies aged 91 - [Sunday Herald]
		Dame Thora Hird, one of Britain's best-loved actresses, died yesterday aged 91.
		Dame Thora was one of Britain's best-lovedÊcharacterÊactressesÊwho epitomised the house-proud northern woman, full of warmth and commonsense.
		Dame Thora was born on May 28, 1911, at Morecambe in Lancashire where her father James Hird managed the Royalty Theatre and later the Pier.
	www.sundayherald.com /32169 (558 words)

	Thora HIRD : astrology and planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Birth Chart
		Just click on the Dynamic Natal Chart of Thora HIRD with the positions of planets, astrological houses, and the list of the aspects with orbs in degrees and minutes.
		Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Thora HIRD.
		Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Thora HIRD and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
	www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/ew4MkhCt6C8u.htm (553 words)

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