Dorothy Alison
Birthday
1925/04/04
Day of death
1992/01/17 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Also know as
Dorothy Dickson, Perk Allison
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.
Acting
(1971) Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
as Mrs. Spencer
(1957) Interpol
as Helen
(1956) The Long Arm
as Mary Halliday
(1972) The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mrs. Richard Allen
(1989) Australia
as Doreen Swanson
(1958) The Man Upstairs
as Mrs. Barnes
(1988) Rikky and Pete
as Mrs. Menzies
(1957) The Scamp
as Barbara Leigh
(1956) Reach for the Sky
as Nurse Brace
(1983) The Winds of Jarrah
as Mrs. Sullivan
(1988) Two Brothers Running
as Mrs. Widmore
(1971) See No Evil
as Betty Rexton
(1968) Journey Into Darkness
as Mrs. Latham
(1959) Life In Emergency Ward 10
as Sister Jane Fraser
(1954) The 'Maggie'
as Miss Peters
(1959) The Nun's Story
as Sister Aurelie
(1962) The Prince and the Pauper
as Mrs. Canty
(1961) Two Living, One Dead
as Esther Kester
(1967) Pretty Polly
as Mrs. Barlow
(1952) Mandy
as Miss Stockton
(1966) Georgy Girl
as Health Visitor
(1988) Evil Angels
as Avis Murchison
(1956) The Silken Affair
as Mrs. Tweakham
(1953) Turn the Key Softly
as Joan
(1983) The Return of the Soldier
as Brigadier's Wife
(1980) The Errand
as Farmer's Wife
(1949) Eureka Stockade
as Mrs. Bentley
(1956) The Feminine Touch
as The Suicide
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1968) Journey to the Unknown
as ---
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Matilda
(1957) A Time Of Day
as ---
(1961) Stryker of the Yard
as ---
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Duchess Constance
(1969) The Main Chance
as Chairman of Magistrates
(1986) The Flying Doctors
as Essie Harrington
(1981) A Town Like Alice
as Mrs. Frith