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She had a break from acting in the [[1970s]] to raise children but did a 'public service' TV advertisment on children's safety in this period. Since the early [[1980s]] she has been very active and is in a new cinema release ''MirrorMask'' (2005). Her [[autobiography]] ''According To Dora'' was published in [[1987]] and has since been updated and republished. |
She had a break from acting in the [[1970s]] to raise children but did a 'public service' TV advertisment on children's safety in this period. Since the early [[1980s]] she has been very active and is in a new cinema release ''MirrorMask'' (2005). Her [[autobiography]] ''According To Dora'' was published in [[1987]] and has since been updated and republished. |
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{{imdb name|id=0116932 |name=Dora Bryan}} |
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[[Category:1924 births|Bryan, Dora]] |
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Revision as of 20:22, 23 January 2005
Dora Bryan (born February 7, 1924) is a British actress, a household name with a huge list of films to her credit. She is currently a regular in the long-running BBC comedy series Last Of The Summer Wine. She was born in Southport in the United Kingdom county of Lancashire, and has a distinctive voice which she does not alter in her film and television performances.
She is largely known for her supporting roles in British films, often playing a woman of easy virtue - for example in Ealing's The Blue Lamp (1950) or The Fallen Idol (1948), one of her earliest films. Her other roles can often be as a girlfriend: The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), cook: Carry On Sergeant (1958) or barmaid: The Green Man (1956). She played a 'dodgy' head mistress in The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966).
She had a break from acting in the 1970s to raise children but did a 'public service' TV advertisment on children's safety in this period. Since the early 1980s she has been very active and is in a new cinema release MirrorMask (2005). Her autobiography According To Dora was published in 1987 and has since been updated and republished.
External link
Dora Bryan at IMDb