Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 - 15 March 2003) was an English actress. Thora was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Tormé. Her first ever appearance on stage was when she was two months old in a play her father was managing. Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms "Meet the Wife" (a 1960s classic), … Wikipedia
An interviewer from the Guardian once spent four hours recording Dame Thora Hird, who has died aged 91, stopping only because he ran out of tapes. media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,915521,00.html
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