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Diana Dors was a female artist from the United Kingdom whose work period began in 1947. She is associated with genres including jazz, oldies, and vocal jazz. Her recorded works have accumulated 718,367 plays and attracted 5,485 listeners.
Dors is also an author with four listed works. Her top publications include *Behind closed Dors*, *Dors by Diana*, *Swingin' Dors*, and *Diana Dors' A-Z of men*. She was born in 1931 and died on May 4, 1984. Her name appears in a Commons gallery and category, and she is referenced by 419 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931
- Died
- 1984
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Behind closed Dors
- Dors by Diana
- Swingin' Dors
- Diana Dors' A-Z of men
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1931-10-23
- Active to
- 1984-05-04
Discography
- I Feel So Mmm……1953
- As Long as They’re Happy1955
- Swingin’ Dors1960
- April Heart1960
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,485
- Total plays
- 718,367
Tags
Diana Dors, born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, England, in 1931 was a film and TV actress promoted by Rank as a british Marilyn Monroe. After a 1960 swing-influenced album Swinging Dors, she released several singles up until the eighties. She also appeared on the cover for The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and in the video for Adam and The Ants' Prince Charming. She allegedly on her death in 1984 left a fortune in multiple bank accounts under false names, protecting the
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,229x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,700x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,000x
- DrugBank 5.0: a major update to the DrugBank database for 2018
· 2017 · cited 7,555x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Diana Mary Fluck , ( 1931-10-23 ) 23 October 1931, Swindon , Wiltshire , England
- Died
- 4 May 1984 (1984-05-04) (aged 52), Windsor, Berkshire , England
- Resting place
- Sunningdale Catholic Cemetery
- Alma mater
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Occupations
- Actress TV personality singer
- Years active
- 1947–1984
- Spouses
- Dennis Hamilton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; died 1959 ) Richard Dawson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1966 ) Alan Lake ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 )
- Children
- 3, including Mark Dawson
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Diana
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Swindon
- Place of death
- Windsor
- Spouse
- Richard Dawson
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Diana-dors-british-actress.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Diana Dors
- Commons category
- Diana Dors
- date of death
- 1984-05-04
- date of birth
- 1931-10-23
- cause of death
- ovarian cancer
- name in native language
- Diana Dors
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- birth name
- Diana Mary Fluck
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English actress and singer.
Dors came to public notice as a blonde bombshell, much in the style of Americans Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Mamie Van Doren. Dors was promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly in sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it was revealed that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed talent as a performer on TV, in recordings, and in cabaret, and gained new public popularity as a regular chat-show guest. She also gave well-regarded film performances at different points in her career.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diana Dors” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.