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Doris Hare was born on 1st March 1905
At the age of three she made her professional debut at the Alexander Portable
Theatre in their production of Current Cash. She continued working in music halls and choruses before making her
West End debut at The Palace as Sally in The Scarlet Clue in 1916
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Above Doris appears in an cinema magazine ad for Olvatine
in 1935
Doris was working in Music Hall, Variety Showa, Cabaret Revues and Pantomimes, going on to have
a career in Theatre, TV and Films for the next 80 years
1935 play- Dancing City Play Oldham Colisium
1935
play- Opening Night
1935 play- Jubilee Window
1938 play- ITS IN THE BAG with Doris Hare & Elisabeth
Welch
1939 play- She Couldn't Say No
1939- North Sea Patrol
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1940 She Couldn't Say No with Tommy Trinder
1945 THE MUSICAL ROMANCE SWEET YESTERDAY
(MUSICIAL ROMANCE) PRODUCED BY JACK HULBERT ADELPHI THEATRE LONDON, HUGH MILLER, REGINALD TATE, ANNE ZIEGLER, WEBSTER BOOTH,
MARK DALYADELPHI THEATRE LONDON
CAST; WEBSTER BOOTH, ANNE ZIEGLER, DORIS HARE, MARK DALY, REGINALD TATE, HUGH MILLER
1947. 1066 and All That. Richard Littledale, Wallas Eaton.
1948 17th October .A gala revue at Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane to promote National Savings !! Cast includes John Mills & Leslie Mitchell, Moira Lister & David Peel, exerpts
from opera & ballet, revue including Hattie Jacques, Stanley Holloway,
Lupino Lane 1st Bn. Scots Guards, Finale
of THE LAMBETH WALK including Hermione Gingold, Margaret Rutherford, Doris Hare, Bobby Howes,Ronald Shiner.
1948 Here
Come the Huggetts
1949 The History of Mr. Polly
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Doris was familiar voice throughout the war on the radio
series Shipmates Ashore, "a show for the MERCHANT NAVY" after which she received an MBE for her work as a wartime
entertainer.
Entertaining members of the Merchant Marine during World War II, both in shipboard revues and as hostess
of the radio program 'Shipmates Ashore.'
Doris is to the left of the microphone
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1950 Dance hall with Petula Clarke
1954 Double Exposure
1955 THE WATER GYPSIES
see images below
1955 Tiger by the Tail
1955 No Smoking
1957 Stranger's Meeting
1958 Heartbreak
House t the Lyric Theatre London
1959 The League of Gentlemen
1959 PLAY- 'THE QUIZ KID' AT THE NEWCASTLE
THEATRE ROYAL AUGUST
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Doris as Mrs Higgins in
'THE WATER GIPSIES' performing a song and dance number called 'Why Should Spring Have All The Flowers'
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In Coronation Street, Doris Hare played both Hilda Davies
and Maud in 1961 and Alice Pickins from 1968 to 1969 (see image)
Her other credits include The Benny Hill Show,
Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) (see image)
Doris turned down the opportunity to play Ena Sharples in Corrie as she did
not want to be type cast but went on to take the role that was to make her famous as Mrs Butler (MUM) in ON THE BUSES both
the series and 3 feature films. Doris was unavailable for the 1st SERIES of ON THE BUSES as she was in America
with her husband John Fraser-Roberts, a surgeon.
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1963 A Midsummer Night's Dream""
at London's Aldwych Theatre with Diana Rigg, Brian Murray, Paul Hardwick, John Nettleton, Ian Richardson, Juliet
Mills, Doris Hare
1963 A Place to Go
1964 Aldwych Theatre
1967 ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
1969 Coronation Steet (as Alice Pickins)
Doris Hare as Madame Hanska in an episdoe of Randall &
Hopkirk (Deceased)
called 'But What a Sweet Little Room' aired on Sunday, 14th December 1969
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On the Buses 1969-1973
On the Buses 1971 FILM
Dois Hare This is Your Life 1971
Mutiny
On the Buses 1972
Holiday on the Buses 1973
'MOVE OVER MRS MARKHAM' PIER THEATRE
BOURNEMOUTH WITH DORIS HARE,LIZ FRASER,EDWIN RICHFIELD AND McDONALD HOBLEY 1974
Confessions of a Pop Performer
1975
Confessions of a Driving Instructor 1976
Confessions of a Holiday Camp 1977
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1980's
1984 FORTY YEARS ON Queen's Theatre, London, . Paul Eddington, Phyllida Law, David Horovitch, and Stephen Fry.
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1990's
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Doris never forgot her roots and carried on working until
she sadly passed away at the age of 95.
The actress died at Denville Hall, the actors' retirement home in Northwood,
Middlesex.
She was cremated at Breakspear on the 2nd June, 2000
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