Dora Bryan
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Dora May Bryan OBE was an English actress of stage, film and television. Born Dora May Broadbent, her career began in pantomime as a child actor. In World War II she joined the ENSA in Italy to entertain British troops. After having established herself as a versatile stage actress, covering everything from drama and comedy to musicals, she started to appear in film in the late 1940s, and in 1968 she even had her own TV series, "According to Dora". At one point in her career she was Britain's highest-paid star. She was active on stage until the mid 1990s and continued to work in film and television until 2005, when she finally had to give up the acting profession as she could no longer remember her lines. Her autobiography According To Dora was published in 1987. In 1996, she was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to acting and the same year she was also awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for her role in the West End production of the Harold Pinter play "The Birthday Party". She was married to British cricket player Bill Lawton from 1954 to his death in 2008. She lived in a nursing home in Hove, outside Brighton, until her death in 2014.
Known for
Credits
Hello London (1960)
as herself
MirrorMask (2005)
as Aunt Nan
The Dream Machine (1964)
as Self
The Fallen Idol (1948)
as Rose
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Actor
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
as Myrtie
Carry On Sergeant (1958)
as Norah
A Taste of Honey (1961)
as Helen
Scarlet Thread (1951)
as Maggie
Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
as Peggy Stebbins
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
as Movie Publicist
Odd Man Out (1947)
as Girl in Telephone Kiosk (uncredited)
The Sandwich Man (1966)
as Mrs. De Vere
Apartment Zero (1989)
as Margaret McKinney
Miss Robin Hood (1952)
as Pearl
The Blue Lamp (1950)
as Maisie
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
as Mrs. Golding
The Green Man (1956)
as Lily
Gift Horse (1952)
as Glad Flanagan
Adam and Evelyne (1949)
as Blonde Sales Assistant (uncredited)
Now Barabbas (1949)
as Winnie
Circle of Danger (1951)
as Bubbles Fitzgerald
Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952)
as Miss La Fosse
Child in the House (1956)
as Cassie
High Treason (1951)
as Mrs. Bowers
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
as the waitress
Operation Bullshine (1959)
as Pvt. Cox
Mad About Men (1954)
as Berengaria
The Ringer (1952)
as Mrs. Hackett
The Perfect Woman (1949)
as Model in Shop
The Crowded Day (1954)
as Marge
You Lucky People! (1955)
as Hortense Tipp
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
as Telephonist
Up the Front (1972)
as Auntie Cora Crumpington
The Young Lovers (1954)
as Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
as Talkative Hairdresser (uncredited)
No Trace (1950)
as Maisie
13 East Street (1952)
as Valerie
Alice Through the Looking Box (1960)
as Queen
Screamtime (1983)
as Emma
Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
as Amber Spottiswood
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
as May
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout (1996)
as Millie
Something in the City (1950)
as Waitress
The Fake (1953)
as Barmaid
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
Actor
No Room at the Inn (1948)
as The Girl
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
as Tilly
The Intruder (1953)
as Dora Bee
Street Corner (1953)
as Prostitute
Bed (1995)
as Bosom Lady
The Night We Got the Bird (1960)
as Julie Skidmore
Desert Mice (1959)
as Gay Bennett
Once Upon a Dream (1949)
as Barmaid
The Cure for Love (1949)
as Jenny Jenkins
Harmony Lane (1954)
as Comedian
Traveller's Joy (1950)
as Eva
Two a Penny (1967)
as Ruby Hopkins
Women of Twilight (1953)
as Olga
The Quiet Woman (1951)
as Elsie Tripp
Palmer (1991)
as Monica
Follow That Horse! (1960)
Actor
Small Hotel (1957)
as (uncredited)
Fast and Loose (1954)
as Mary Rawlings, the maid
The Real Thing (1953)
as Dora