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Dateline: 16th March, 2003 Dame Thora Hird Veteran actress Dame Thora Hird has died at the age of 91. She suffered a stroke last weekend but even in the middle of the week it was suggested she would recover and start working on the next series of Last of the Summer Wine. She began her stage career at the age of two months when she was carried on stage in a play directed by her father at the Royalty Theatre in Morecambe. When she left school she worked at the local Co-op - her father was not at all keen on her becoming an actress - but soon joined the Morecambe Repertory Company. She made her first appearannce in London in 1940 and went on to play many character parts. However she is best known for her television work, especially sitcoms such as Meet the Wife, In Loving Memory and The First Lady. She also played the Nurse in the 1967 BBC TV production of Romeo and Juliet. For the general TV audience she is probably best known today as Edie Pegdon in Last of the Summer Wine, although, as a committed Christian, she has also made many appearances as a presenter on the BBC religious programmes Songs of Praise and Praise Be. She was also closely associated with writer Alan Bennett and won two Bafta TV Best Actress awards for her performances in the two Talking Heads series, for A Cream Cracker Under the Settee in 1989 and for Waiting For the Telegram in the early nineties. She was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. |A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z| Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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