Dora Bruckmann — The Hour Before the Dawn Character Profile

About Dora Bruckmann

Austrian woman posing as a refugee who works for May. Secretly a Nazi spy tasked with guiding bombers to a camouflaged airfield. Marries Jim to avoid internment. Attempts sabotage, shoots Jim, and is killed by him when her gun jams.

Dora Bruckmann — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Veronica Lake

Appears in

The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (4)

• Dora Bruckmann — Romantic Husband — Jim (as a boy) (Raymond Severn)

  Romantic bond turns into a marriage of convenience to evade wartime internment.

• Dora Bruckmann — Alliance Supervisor — Kurt van der Breughel (Nils Asther)

  Direct operational link within the Nazi espionage network.

• Dora Bruckmann — Conflict Saboteur Vs Witness — Tommy Hetherton (David Leland)

  Hostile encounter where Dora threatens Tommy to silence his discovery.

• Dora Bruckmann — Conflict Enemy Spy — Roger Hetherton (John Sutton)

  Dora's espionage directly threatens Roger's stationed airfield.

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More characters from The Hour Before the Dawn

• Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone)
• Roger Hetherton (John Sutton)
• May Hetherton (Binnie Barnes)
• Gen. Hetherton (Henry Stephenson)
• Sir Leslie Buchanon (Philip Merivale)
• Annie (Mary Gordon)
• Kurt van der Breughel (Nils Asther)
• Freddy Merritt (Edmund Breon)
• Jim (as a boy) (Raymond Severn)
• Tommy Hetherton (David Leland)
• Mrs. Muller (Aminta Dyne)