Character actor. Born Lancashire. Played many comic roles. Late in her life Alan Bennett wrote a number of roles for her.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dame Thora Hird DBE
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BBC Television Centre - Thora Hird
Dame Thora Hird DBE, 1911 - 2003. BBC and the Heritage Foundation
Other Subjects
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE.
Actress. Margaret Natalie Smith, known professionally as Maggie Smith, was born on 28 December 1934 in Ilford, Essex, the youngest of the three children of Nathaniel Smith (1902-1991) and Margaret ...
1 memorial
Gainsborough Film Studios
Gainsborough Pictures was founded in 1924 by Michael Balcon. These Islington studios were closely related to those at Lime Grove, used by Gaumont-British, with Balcon as Director of Production for ...
2 memorials
Stephen John Fry
Actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer with professional name Stephen Fry. Born on 24 August 1957, the second of the three children of Alan John Fry (1930-2019) and Marianne Ev...
Person, Cinema, Humour, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio
3 memorials
R. W. Paul
Robert William Paul was a cinema pioneer, inventor, manufacturer, producer, exhibitor and cinematographer, based in Muswell Hill where he designed and constructed Britain's first film studio. Born...
1 memorial
Humphrey Jennings
Documentary film maker. Born Suffolk. Co-founder of the Mass Observation organisation (something like current day personal blogs but with pencil and paper). In 1936 he helped organise the Surreal...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
2 memorials
Marshalsea Prison
Originally built to hold prisoners being tried by the Marshalsea Court and the Court of the King's Bench. Its first site, from at least 1329 was on Borough High Street on the block now bordered...
6 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
R. Peacock
On the memorial this name is one of 4 added on the plinth, out of alphabetical sequence.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
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