DIANA DORS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Diana Dors was born on October 23rd, 1931 in Swindon, Wiltshire in England with the birth name Diana Mary Fluck as an only child to Mary and Peter Fluck. As a young girl she took dancing lessons and began to take an interest in films when she attended the movies at local theaters with her mother as a child.
She received her early years education in the top private schools and already had her aspirations set on pursuing a career as an actress. After she placed in a local beauty contest she began acting as a teenager appearing in a number of stage productions. She then enrolled in acting classes and by age fifteen she was appearing in films mostly as a young sexy background actress.
Some of her early film roles were on such features as, "Code of Scotland Yard" (1947) followed by, "Dancing With Crime" (1947) and "Oliver Twist" (1948). She was being promoted as the British, Marilyn Monroe and was earning such nicknames as, The Siren of Swindon, Hurricane in Mink and Dorsy.
As she matured she was being cast in larger and more mature roles such as, "There's a Girl in My Soup" (1970), "The Amorous Milkman" (1975), "Craze" (1974), "Three For All" (1975) and "Steaming" (1985).
After being diagnosed with cancer she had a hard time dealing with her health ailment. She donated much of her final years working with various religious groups and charities.
Dors married a number of times throughout her lifetime. Her first husband was Dennis Hamilton whom she wed in 1951 and even though they had begun divorce proceedings in 1958, before they finalized he passed away in 1959. Her second husband was Richard Dawson, whom she married in 1959 and they had two children together before ending this marriage in 1966. Dors third husband was Alan Lake in 1968 and they had one son, Alan Lake Jr. and they remained married until Diana Dors passed away on May 4th, 1984 in Windsor, Berkshire, England after suffering from stomach cancer. Her third husband Alan committed suicide five months after losing his wife.
Filmography
1985 Steaming
1981 Dick Turpin
1981 Timon of Athens
1980 The Two Ronnies
1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1980 Shoestring
1980 Hammer House of Horror
1980 Bernie
1979 The Plank
1979 Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
1979 Of Mycenae and Men
1978 The Sweeney
1977-1978 Just William
1977 Adventures of a Private Eye
1976 Keep It Up Downstairs
1976 Adventures of a Taxi Driver
1975 Whodunnit?
1975 Three for All
1975 Bedtime with Rosie
1975 A Man with a Maid
1975 Thriller
1975 The Amorous Milkman
1974 Every Afternoon
1974 Craze
1974 From Beyond the Grave
1973 Steptoe and Son Ride Again
1973 Theater of Blood
1973 All Our Saturdays
1973 Nothing But the Night
1972 The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1970-1972 Queenie's Castle
1972 The Pied Piper
1972 Dixon of Dock Green
1971 Hannie Caulder
1971 Z Cars
1971 The Misfit
1970 There's a Girl in My Soup
1970 Deep End
1970 It's Tommy Cooper
1970 Barry Humphries' Scandals
1968 Boy Meets Girl
1968 Baby Love
1968 Hammerhead
1967 Danger Route
1967 Berserk
1966 The Bruce Forsyth Show
1966 The Sandwich Man
1965 AquĆ el segundo programa
1960-1964 Armchair Theatre
1964 Gran parada
1964 The Eleventh Hour
1963 Burke's Law
1963 West 11
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1962 Encontra a Mallorca
1961 Straightaway
1961 King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961 On the Double
1961 The Jack Benny Program
1960 The Red Skelton Hour
1960 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
1960 Scent of Mystery
1958 Room 43
1958 Tread Softly Stranger
1958 The Love Specialist
1958 I Married a Woman
1957 The Long Haul
1957 The Unholy Wife
1956 Blonde Sinner
1955 An Alligator Named Daisy
1955 Value for Money
1955 Dead by Morning
1955 A Kid for Two Farthings
1955 As Long as They're Happy
1954 Rheingold Theatre
1954 Young and Willing
1953 It's a Grand Life
1953 The Saint's Girl Friday
1953 Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
1953 The Great Game
1952 My Wife's Lodger
1952 Man Bait
1949 How Do You View?
1951 Bikini Baby
1951 Worm's Eye View
1951 Face to Face
1950 Dance Hall
1949 Diamond City
1949 A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949 It's Not Cricket
1949 Vote for Huggett
1948 Here Come the Huggetts
1948 Oliver Twist
1948 Penny and the Pownall Case
1948 My Sister and I
1948 The Calendar
1948 Good-Time Girl
1947 Holiday Camp
1947 Dancing with Crime
1947 Code of Scotland Yard