Dora Bryan Autograph

Dora May Broadbent OBE, known as Dora Bryan (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014) was an English actress of stage, film and television. She often played women of easy virtue—for example in Ealing's The Blue Lamp (1950) and The Fallen Idol (1948), one of her earliest films. She appeared in similarly stereotypical female roles in other films, for example The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), The Green Man (1956) and Carry On Sergeant (1958). She played a headmistress in The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966), and in 1968 she starred in her own British TV series, According to Dora.

In 1999, she made an appearance in the Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies. In 2000 she joined the cast of the long-running BBC comedy series Last of the Summer Wine as Aunt Roz Utterthwaite, and in 2001 she was a guest star on Absolutely Fabulous as June Whitfield's on-screen friend Dolly. She received a BAFTA nomination in 2002 for this role.