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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.
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01 March 1952
When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it.
25 September 1953
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries.
13 November 1951
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
03 November 1960
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
01 February 1949
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true.
18 October 1953
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment.
17 March 1953
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
20 November 1954
The first British 3D short, this delightful 27 minute short is like spending a night at the Palladium with several variety acts.
23 May 1949
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town.
01 January 1953
The World's First Three Dimensional Advertising Film In Colour for Capstan cigarettes.
24 May 1949
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
25 January 2005
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
12 February 1954
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
25 December 1950
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England.
14 August 1956
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive.
30 March 2003
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron and Victoria Wood, pay tribute to Dame Thora Hird, who died in 2003 at the age of 91.
25 October 1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff.
05 January 1959
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group.
11 November 1964
Follows Francis Essex as he puts together a variety special for television.
09 February 1954
The best of British humor is on display in this satirical cold war romp! Donald Sinden plays Lieutenant Green, a radar expert in the Royal Navy.
06 November 1996
Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle of the international celebrity elite when Saffy is proposed to by her stuffy, upper-class boyfriend, Paolo.
24 August 1954
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage.
16 November 1954
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
01 March 1951
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman.
21 January 1958
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief.
19 July 1949
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor.
01 July 1952
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister.
25 December 1960
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
30 September 1948
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
14 July 1972
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward.
18 July 1955
Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two weeks' training.
16 November 1955
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
02 September 1989
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants.
17 October 1971
A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with psychoanalysis Dr Pritchard discovers a deadly violence in one of his young female patients.
01 September 1950
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
14 October 1957
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter.
30 June 1959
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
08 September 1950
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
31 December 1967
Set in London's Swinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing.
05 November 1960
Hello London is a 1958 documentary film starring Sonja Henie and Michael Wilding.
19 January 1950
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat.
28 June 1951
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant.
31 August 1958
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen.
01 October 1954
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
01 October 1961
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned.
12 November 1952
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan.
21 December 1956
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs.
30 January 1947
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
11 October 1949
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
11 July 1960
A race horse swallows a microfilm and is pursued by the major superpowers spy agencies.
17 April 1951
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
15 July 1966
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
11 July 1952
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure.
15 March 1955
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist, and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them.
20 October 1995
Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
01 June 1952
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942.
01 January 1952
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called in to solve the case of a suicide which the father of the deceased woman thinks was murder.
31 May 1949
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
24 November 1952
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
11 March 1966
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.
