Thora Hird Movies

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as...

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced...

When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in...

Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a...

A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.

Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into...

Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul...

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but ends up learning just as much about...

The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by...