Dora Bryan

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: Acting

Born: Parbold, Lancashire, England, UK, 1923-02-07

Died: 2014-07-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Odd Man Out	Girl in Telephone Kiosk (uncredited)	73
2	1948	The Fallen Idol	Rose	72
3	1948	No Room at the Inn	The Girl	70
4	1949	Once Upon a Dream	Barmaid	60
5	1949	The Perfect Woman	Model in Shop	60
6	1949	Now Barabbas	Winnie	65
7	1949	Adam and Evelyne	Blonde Sales Assistant (uncredited)	66
8	1949	Don't Ever Leave Me	Talkative Hairdresser (uncredited)	75
9	1949	The Interrupted Journey	the waitress	60
10	1949	The Cure for Love	Jenny Jenkins	0
11	1950	The Blue Lamp	Maisie	66
12	1950	Something in the City	Waitress	57
13	1950	No Trace	Maisie	68
14	1950	Traveller's Joy	Eva	57
15	1951	The Quiet Woman	Elsie Tripp	58
16	1951	Circle of Danger	Bubbles Fitzgerald	65
17	1951	Scarlet Thread	Maggie	49
18	1951	No Highway in the Sky		69
19	1951	Lady Godiva Rides Again	Movie Publicist	58
20	1951	High Treason	Mrs. Bowers	53
21	1952	Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard	Miss La Fosse	60
22	1952	13 East Street	Valerie	52
23	1952	Gift Horse	Glad Flanagan	66
24	1952	Time, Gentlemen, Please!	Peggy Stebbins	80
25	1952	Mother Riley Meets the Vampire	Tilly	42
26	1952	Miss Robin Hood	Pearl	75
27	1952	The Ringer	Mrs. Hackett	58
28	1953	The Real Thing	Dora	0
29	1953	Women of Twilight	Olga	53
30	1953	Street Corner	Prostitute	58
31	1953	The Fake	Barmaid	55
32	1953	The Intruder	Dora Bee	72
33	1954	You Know What Sailors Are		42
34	1954	Fast and Loose	Mary Rawlings, the maid	58
35	1954	The Young Lovers	Switchboard Operator (uncredited)	60
36	1954	The Crowded Day	Marge	54
37	1954	Mad About Men	Berengaria	61
38	1954	Harmony Lane	Comedian	0
39	1955	You Lucky People!	Hortense Tipp	52
40	1955	As Long as They're Happy	May	77
41	1955	The Cockleshell Heroes	Myrtie	60
42	1956	Child in the House	Cassie	58
43	1956	The Green Man	Lily	70
44	1957	Small Hotel	(uncredited)	65
45	1958	The Man Who Wouldn't Talk	Telephonist	60
46	1958	Carry On Sergeant	Norah	64
47	1959	Desert Mice	Gay Bennett	60
48	1959	Operation Bullshine	Pvt. Cox	51
49	1960	Follow That Horse!		0
50	1960	The Night We Got the Bird	Julie Skidmore	45
51	1960	Hello London	herself	50
52	1960	Alice Through the Looking Box		0
53	1961	A Taste of Honey	Helen	70
54	1964	The Dream Machine	Self	70
55	1966	The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery	Amber Spottiswood	59
56	1966	The Sandwich Man	Mrs. De Vere	61
57	1967	Two A Penny	Ruby Hopkins	15
58	1971	Hands of the Ripper	Mrs. Golding	62
59	1972	Up the Front	Cora Crumpington	42
60	1983	Screamtime	Emma	40
61	1989	Apartment Zero	Margaret McKinney	68
62	1991	Palmer	Monica	70
63	1995	Bed	Bosom Lady	0
64	1996	Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout	Millie	73
65	2005	MirrorMask	Aunt Nan	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	The Sooty Show	Herself	61
2	1958	Educating Archie		0
3	1967	Before The Fringe		0
4	1972	Both Ends Meet	Dora Page	0
5	1973	Last of the Summer Wine	Roz	71
6	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
7	1986	Casualty	Hester Blewett	61
8	1990	On the Up		63
9	1991	Performance	Bosom Lady	60
10	1992	Heartbeat	Jane Thompson	71
11	1992	Virtual Murder		65
12	1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Dolly	75
13	1993	Frank Stubbs Promotes	Molly Bramley	60
14	1998	dinnerladies	Connie	74
15		According To Dora		0
16	1994	Mother's Ruin		70
17	2000	Doctors	Lily Anderson	48

Dora Bryan

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