Douglas spent eleven years with Brian Rix’s company in the Whitehall farces, joining in 1954 for John Chapman’s Dry Rot, which ran for more than 1,400 performances.
[1] In 2009, she played the role of Mrs Harries, the mother of Josephine Tewson in the radio drama, Leaves in Autumn by Susan Casanove, a Wireless Theatre Company production.
[citation needed] She also has the minor role of Maureen Bright in the BBC soap opera, Doctors in 2011.
Most recently, Douglas portrayed Edna Locke in an episode of the 2014 detective drama Suspects.
She served in the Royal Navy, where she met her husband, Peter Sawford; they married in 1949 and remained together until his death in 1991.