Dorothy Knowles (28 March 1906 – 10 November 2010) was a British academic, known to her friends as Diana.
Knowles is known to historians of British cinema for her 1934 book The Censor, the Drama and the Film,[1] in which she criticised the British Board of Film Censors for what she regarded as unaccountable political censorship.
Although the family intended to move back to South Africa, the outbreak of World War I meant they could not do so.
[2] As a child, Knowles danced alongside Marie Lloyd and Lupino Lane.
[3] Knowles retired from her position at Liverpool University in 1984 and began spending more time in France.