
Dora Bryan
Born February 7, 1923 · Parbold, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again

Gift Horse

Scarlet Thread

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Screamtime

Something in the City

Alice Through the Looking Box

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

The Ringer

Apartment Zero

Adam and Evelyne

Don't Ever Leave Me

Carry On Sergeant

You Know What Sailors Are

The Cure for Love

Bed

The Green Man

Child in the House

Two a Penny

Mad About Men

Once Upon a Dream

Operation Bullshine

The Intruder

No Room at the Inn

Circle of Danger

The Night We Got the Bird

Desert Mice

The Crowded Day

Traveller's Joy

The Perfect Woman

The Interrupted Journey

Miss Robin Hood

High Treason

Up the Front

Thora Hird Tribute

Street Corner

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

The Young Lovers

Now Barabbas

Small Hotel

Palmer

The Fake

No Trace

The Quiet Woman

Women of Twilight

13 East Street

Fast and Loose

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