Alexander Doré


Alexander Joseph Doré was a British actor, television director and screenwriter perhaps best known for his appearance as the First Spy in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He also co-starred in the 1968 TV series Virgin of the Secret Service as well as playing Bertram Bright in Bright's Boffins.
Doré's other screen appearances include At the Stroke of Nine, Tales from Dickens, ITV Television Playhouse, Emergency-Ward 10, Dixon of Dock Green, Casino Royale, ITV Playhouse, and A Very Peculiar Practice.
His credits as a screenwriter include Jungle Street and The Wind of Change, while his directing credits include Hé... mag ik mijn echtgenote terug?, and Privé Voor Twee for Dutch television.
He directed the plays See How They Run at London's Vaudeville Theatre, The Sunday Man at the Morosco Theatre on Broadway in 1964, and the world premiere of We Who Are About To... in 1968 at the Hampstead Theatre Club. In 1988 he directed the Dutch-language version of the play Never Judge a Book by its Cover which undertook a successful fifty-city tour of Holland and Belgium.

Personal life

He married the actress Edna Doré in 1946 in Pancras, London, and the two of them ran their own company for five years at the Little Theatre in Aberystwyth. He died in London in 2002 aged 78. Their son, Michael, is currently the landlord of a public house in Hampshire.

Selected filmography