Portrait of Dorothy Alison

Dorothy Alison

Acting

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.

Born: April 4, 1925

Place of Birth: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Filmography

1989
Australia

as Doreen Swanson

1988
Evil Angels

as Avis Murchison

1988
Rikky and Pete

as Mrs. Menzies

1988
Two Brothers Running

as Mrs. Widmore

1986
The Flying Doctors

as Essie Harrington

1983
The Winds of Jarrah

as Mrs. Sullivan

1983
The Return of the Soldier

as Brigadier's Wife

1981
A Town Like Alice

as Mrs. Frith

1980
The Errand

as The Farmer's Wife

1972
The Amazing Mr. Blunden

as Mrs. Richard Allen

1971
1971
See No Evil

as Betty Rexton

1969
The Main Chance

as Chairman of Magistrates

1968
Journey Into Darkness

as Mrs. Latham

1967
Pretty Polly

as Mrs. Barlow

1967
1966
Georgy Girl

as Health Visitor

1962
1959
The Nun's Story

as Sister Aurelie

1959
Life In Emergency Ward 10

as Sister Jane Fraser

1958
The Man Upstairs

as Mrs. Barnes

1957
The Scamp

as Barbara Leigh

1957
Interpol

as Helen

1956
The Silken Affair

as Mrs. Tweakham

1956
Reach for the Sky

as Nurse Brace

1956
The Feminine Touch

as The Suicide

1956
The Long Arm

as Mary Halliday

1955
The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Duchess Constance

1954
The 'Maggie'

as Miss Peters

1952
Mandy

as Miss Stockton

1949
Eureka Stockade

as Mrs. Bentley