Cast
Dora Bryan
Acting
Cast
Dora Bryan
Known for
Acting
Born
1923-02-07
From
Parbold, Lancashire, England, UK
Died
2014-07-23
Also known as Дора Брайен, Dora May Broadbent
Biography
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.
★7.0
MOVIE1960
Hello London
as herself
★6.4
MOVIE2005
MirrorMask
as Aunt Nan
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Dream Machine
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE1948
The Fallen Idol
as Rose
★7.0
MOVIE1951
No Highway in the Sky
★5.9
MOVIE1955
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Myrtie
★6.4
MOVIE1958
Carry On Sergeant
as Norah
★7.1
MOVIE1961
A Taste of Honey
as Helen
★5.2
MOVIE1951
Scarlet Thread
as Maggie
★8.0
MOVIE1952
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
as Peggy Stebbins
★5.9
MOVIE1951
Lady Godiva Rides Again
as Movie Publicist
★7.3
MOVIE1947
Odd Man Out
as Girl in Telephone Kiosk (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1966
The Sandwich Man
as Mrs. De Vere
★6.7
MOVIE1989
Apartment Zero
as Margaret McKinney
★8.1
MOVIE1952
Miss Robin Hood
as Pearl
★6.6
MOVIE1950
The Blue Lamp
as Maisie
★6.2
MOVIE1971
Hands of the Ripper
as Mrs. Golding
★7.0
MOVIE1956
The Green Man
as Lily
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Gift Horse
as Glad Flanagan
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Adam and Evelyne
as Blonde Sales Assistant (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1949
Now Barabbas
as Winnie
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Circle of Danger
as Bubbles Fitzgerald
★6.2
MOVIE1952
Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard
as Miss La Fosse
★6.6
MOVIE1956
Child in the House
as Cassie
★5.7
MOVIE1951
High Treason
as Mrs. Bowers
★5.8
MOVIE1949
The Interrupted Journey
as the waitress
★5.5
MOVIE1959
Operation Bullshine
as Pvt. Cox
★6.5
MOVIE1954
Mad About Men
as Berengaria
★6.0
MOVIE1952
The Ringer
as Mrs. Hackett
★6.4
MOVIE1949
The Perfect Woman
as Model in Shop
★5.8
MOVIE1954
The Crowded Day
as Marge
★5.4
MOVIE1955
You Lucky People!
as Hortense Tipp
★6.3
MOVIE1958
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Telephonist
★4.4
MOVIE1972
Up the Front
as Auntie Cora Crumpington
★6.1
MOVIE1954
The Young Lovers
as Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
★7.7
MOVIE1949
Don't Ever Leave Me
as Talkative Hairdresser (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1950
No Trace
as Maisie
★6.0
MOVIE1952
13 East Street
as Valerie
MOVIE1960
Alice Through the Looking Box
as Queen
★4.0
MOVIE1983
Screamtime
as Emma
MOVIE2003
Thora Hird Tribute
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1966
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
as Amber Spottiswood
★7.5
MOVIE1955
As Long as They're Happy
as May
★7.3
MOVIE1996
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
as Millie
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Something in the City
as Waitress
★5.9
MOVIE1953
The Fake
as Barmaid
★5.2
MOVIE1954
You Know What Sailors Are
★8.5
MOVIE1948
No Room at the Inn
as The Girl
★4.3
MOVIE1952
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
as Tilly
★7.6
MOVIE1953
The Intruder
as Dora Bee
★5.5
MOVIE1953
Street Corner
as Prostitute
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Bed
as Bosom Lady
★6.3
MOVIE1960
The Night We Got the Bird
as Julie Skidmore
★6.2
MOVIE1959
Desert Mice
as Gay Bennett
★6.8
MOVIE1949
Once Upon a Dream
as Barmaid
★7.0
MOVIE1949
The Cure for Love
as Jenny Jenkins
MOVIE1954
Harmony Lane
as Comedian
★6.3
MOVIE1950
Traveller's Joy
as Eva
★3.5
MOVIE1967
Two a Penny
as Ruby Hopkins
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Women of Twilight
as Olga
★6.2
MOVIE1951
The Quiet Woman
as Elsie Tripp
★4.0
MOVIE1991
Palmer
as Monica
★10.0
MOVIE1960
Follow That Horse!
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Small Hotel
as (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1954
Fast and Loose
as Mary Rawlings, the maid
MOVIE1953
The Real Thing
as Dora