Classic Movie Actress Dies Days Before Partner: Dorothy Bromiley Was 93

A May passing of a classic movie and film actress has just broken in the press. According to The Times , Dorothy Bromiley, an actress known for The Girls of Pleasure Island and an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood , died on May 3. She was 93.

To add to the heartbreak of Bromiley's family and friends, her longtime partner of six decades, actor/writer Brian Phelan, died just five days later, according to The Guardian . The couple is survived by a son, Joshua (from Brimley's marriage to Joseph Losey), and by their daughter together, Kate.

Bromiley made a solid streak of movie and television roles throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In film, she appeared in The Girls of Pleasure Island , A Touch of the Sun , It's Great to Be Young, Small Hotel and 1960's The Criminal (a.k.a. The Concrete Jungle ). On TV, she had guest roles on The Adventures of Robin Hood , No Hiding Place , The Power Game , Jury Room , The Pursuers and Armchair Theatre . After a hiatus, she returned to the screen for one final role in the 1977 BBC show Fathers and Families .

Causes of death were not released in either Bromiley or Phelan's passings. No public memorial details have been shared.