Doris Breamer Hare, MBE (1 March 1905 â€" 30 May 2000) was a British
actress, singer, dancer and comedienne,she is best known for being the
second actress to portray Mrs Mabel "Mum" Butler in the popular sitcom
On the Buses alongside Reg Varney.Hare was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan,
Wales. Her parents had a portable theatre in South Wales and it seemed
inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the
age of three in Current Cash and appearing in juvenile troupes all
over Britain as a child, before going solo as 'Little Doris Hare',
appearing in music hall, variety, cabaret, revues and pantomimes. One
of five, her brother, Bertie Hare and her sisters Betty Hare and
Winifred Hare Braemer were also actors and performersIn 1930, the
actress toured in The Show's the Thing, taking the part made famous by
Gracie Fields. In 1932 she appeared in the West End in Noël Coward's
show Words and Music, alongside John Mills. In 1936 she made her
Broadway debut in Night Must Fall. During the war she joined Evelyn
Laye to put on a revue for the troops and compered Shipmate's Ashore
on the BBC Forces Programme for the Merchant Navy, earning her the MBE
in 1946.
actress, singer, dancer and comedienne,she is best known for being the
second actress to portray Mrs Mabel "Mum" Butler in the popular sitcom
On the Buses alongside Reg Varney.Hare was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan,
Wales. Her parents had a portable theatre in South Wales and it seemed
inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the
age of three in Current Cash and appearing in juvenile troupes all
over Britain as a child, before going solo as 'Little Doris Hare',
appearing in music hall, variety, cabaret, revues and pantomimes. One
of five, her brother, Bertie Hare and her sisters Betty Hare and
Winifred Hare Braemer were also actors and performersIn 1930, the
actress toured in The Show's the Thing, taking the part made famous by
Gracie Fields. In 1932 she appeared in the West End in Noël Coward's
show Words and Music, alongside John Mills. In 1936 she made her
Broadway debut in Night Must Fall. During the war she joined Evelyn
Laye to put on a revue for the troops and compered Shipmate's Ashore
on the BBC Forces Programme for the Merchant Navy, earning her the MBE
in 1946.
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