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Dorothy Alison

Dorothy Alison

Actor · 1925–1992 · Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Dorothy Alison was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was known for See No Evil (1971), The Nun's Story (1959) and A Cry in the Dark (1988). Alison, from 1949, afterinitially working as a secretary, spend most of her professional life in London, England. She returned to Australia in 1980 for the mini-series, A Town Like Alice (1981) and remained her for the rest of the 1980s. She was married to Leslie Linder. She died at the age of 66 in London in 1992.

Acted in 38

1980s

  1. 1989

    Australia

    Doreen Swanson

  2. 1988
  3. Rikky and Pete

    Mrs. Menzies

  4. Two Brothers Running

    Mrs. Widmore

  5. 1986
  6. 1983

    The Winds of Jarrah

    Mrs. Sullivan

  7. 1981

    A Town Like Alice

    Mrs. Frith · 2 episodes

  8. 1980

    The Errand

    The Farmer's Wife

1960s

  1. 1969
  2. 1968
  3. Journey Into Darkness

    Mrs. Latham

  4. 1967

    Pretty Polly

    Mrs. Barlow

  5. 1966

    Georgy Girl

    Health Visitor

  6. 1962
  7. 1961

    Two Living, One Dead

    Esther Kester

1950s

  1. 1959
  2. Life In Emergency Ward 10

    Sister Jane Fraser

  3. 1958

    The Man Upstairs

    Mrs. Barnes

  4. 1957

    The Scamp

    Barbara Leigh

  5. Interpol

    Helen

  6. 1956

    The Silken Affair

    Mrs. Tweakham

  7. Armchair Theatre

    Stella Gilmore, Beth · 1 episode

  8. Reach for the Sky

    Nurse Brace

  9. The Feminine Touch

    The Suicide

  10. 1955
  11. 1954

    Child's Play

    Margery Chappel

  12. The 'Maggie'

    Miss Peters

  13. 1953

    Turn the Key Softly

    Joan

  14. 1952

    Mandy

    Miss Stockton

1940s

  1. 1949

    Eureka Stockade

    Mrs. Bentley