Dorice Fordred spent most of her career on the London stage, where she debuted in 1923 and appeared regularly in the 1920s and 1930s. London productions featuring Fordred in the cast included
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1923);
Troilus & Cressida (1923);
The School for Scandal (1923–24);
Faust (1924);
The Taming of the Shrew (1924); ''A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1924); Everyman
(1925); Hamlet
(1925); Macbeth
(1925); Twelfth Night
(1925); Riverside Nights
(1926); The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
(1926); Trelawney of the Wells
(1926-1927); Thunder on the Left
(1928); Some Showers
(1928); The Iron Law
(1929); Murder on the Second Floor
(1929-1930); Love's Labour Lost
(1930); Debonair
(1930); Getting Rid of Gertie
(1930); Cynara
(1930–31); Three Flats
(1931); The Force of Circumstance
(1931); Musical Chairs
(1932); Half-Holiday
(1932); Earthquake in Surrey
(1932); Francis Thompson
(1933); Bellairs
(1933); A Sleeping Clergyman (1933); Viceroy Sarah
(1934); Summer's Lease
(1935); Othello
(1924 and 1935); King Lear
(1936); Sonata
(1936); The Ante-Room
(1936); Adults Only
(1939); We At the Crossroads'' (1939). Dorice Fordred also appeared in films, including
Blue Bottles and
Daydreams (both 1928), both short films, now lost, based in stories by
H. G. Wells, and both starring
Elsa Lanchester and
Charles Laughton;
The Silent Passenger (1935);
As You Like It (1936), starring
Laurence Olivier;
Knight Without Armour (1937), starring
Marlene Dietrich;
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1939);
Stolen Life (1939);
John Smith Wakes Up (1940); and
The Skin Game (1951). On Broadway, she had one credit, for
Payment Deferred (1931), again with Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton as fellow cast members. ==Personal life==