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
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Actor
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout (1996)
as Millie
A Taste of Honey (1961)
as Helen
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
as May
MirrorMask (2005)
as Aunt Nan
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
as Mrs. Golding
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
as Movie Publicist
Odd Man Out (1947)
as Girl in Telephone Kiosk (uncredited)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
as Maisie
The Sandwich Man (1966)
as Mrs. De Vere
Scarlet Thread (1951)
as Maggie
Carry On Sergeant (1958)
as Norah
Gift Horse (1952)
as Glad Flanagan
The Fallen Idol (1948)
as Rose
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
as Telephonist
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
as Myrtie
Apartment Zero (1989)
as Margaret McKinney
Hello London (1960)
as herself
Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952)
as Miss La Fosse
Something in the City (1950)
as Waitress
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
as Amber Spottiswood
The Night We Got the Bird (1960)
as Julie Skidmore
The Ringer (1952)
as Mrs. Hackett
Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
as Talkative Hairdresser (uncredited)
The Cure for Love (1949)
as Jenny Jenkins
Once Upon a Dream (1949)
as Barmaid
Child in the House (1956)
as Cassie
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
Actor
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
as Tilly
The Green Man (1956)
as Lily
No Room at the Inn (1948)
as The Girl
Alice Through the Looking Box (1960)
as Queen
Mad About Men (1954)
as Berengaria
Adam and Evelyne (1949)
as Blonde Sales Assistant (uncredited)
Miss Robin Hood (1952)
as Pearl
The Crowded Day (1954)
as Marge
Bed (1995)
as Bosom Lady
The Intruder (1953)
as Dora Bee
Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
as the waitress
Screamtime (1983)
as Emma
Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)
as Peggy Stebbins
Operation Bullshine (1959)
as Pvt. Cox
Two a Penny (1967)
as Ruby Hopkins
Circle of Danger (1951)
as Bubbles Fitzgerald
The Dream Machine (1964)
as Self
Up the Front (1972)
as Auntie Cora Crumpington
Small Hotel (1957)
as (uncredited)
Traveller's Joy (1950)
as Eva
High Treason (1951)
as Mrs. Bowers
Desert Mice (1959)
as Gay Bennett
The Perfect Woman (1949)
as Model in Shop
Street Corner (1953)
as Prostitute
Palmer (1991)
as Monica
The Quiet Woman (1951)
as Elsie Tripp
The Young Lovers (1954)
as Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
No Trace (1950)
as Maisie
Now Barabbas (1949)
as Winnie
The Fake (1953)
as Barmaid
Women of Twilight (1953)
as Olga
Fast and Loose (1954)
as Mary Rawlings, the maid
You Lucky People! (1955)
as Hortense Tipp
13 East Street (1952)
as Valerie
Follow That Horse! (1960)
Actor
The Real Thing (1953)
as Dora
Harmony Lane (1954)
as Comedian