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Movies starring Dora Bryan have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
The Fallen Idol - released in 1948 - is Dora Bryan's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 101 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dora Bryan is Screamtime - released in 1983 - with a score of 35% based on 7 reviews.
Dora May Bryan OBE (born 7 February 1923) is 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. In 2013 she was still alive, but very frail, living in a nursing home in Hove, outside Brighton.
Dora Bryan has acted in films with Jack Hawkins, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen and Kenneth Connor.
Dora Bryan has worked with these film directors: Carol Reed, Henry Koster, John Guillermin and Sidney Gilliat.
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