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