Actor
Dora Bryan
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 h ...

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