Dorothy Alison

Dorothy Alison

  • Birthday: 1925-04-04
  • Deathday: 1992-01-17
  • Place of birth: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
  • Also know as: Dorothy Dickson

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.

Filmography

Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde

1971

As Mrs. Spencer

Interpol

1957

As Helen

The Long Arm

1956

As Mary Halliday

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

1972

As Mrs. Richard Allen

Reach for the Sky

1956

As Nurse Brace

The Man Upstairs

1958

As Mrs. Barnes

The Scamp

1957

As Barbara Leigh

Two Living, One Dead

1961

As Esther Kester

The Winds of Jarrah

1983

As Mrs. Sullivan

Two Brothers Running

1988

As Mrs. Widmore

See No Evil

1971

As Betty Rexton

The Prince and the Pauper

1962

As Mrs. Canty

Life In Emergency Ward 10

1959

As Sister Jane Fraser

The 'Maggie'

1954

As Miss Peters

The Nun's Story

1959

As Sister Aurelie

Pretty Polly

1967

As Mrs. Barlow

Mandy

1952

As Miss Stockton

Georgy Girl

1966

As Health Visitor

Evil Angels

1988

As Avis Murchison

The Silken Affair

1956

As Mrs. Tweakham

Turn the Key Softly

1953

As Joan

The Return of the Soldier

1983

As Brigadier's Wife

The Errand

1980

As Farmer's Wife

Eureka Stockade

1949

As Mrs. Bentley

The Feminine Touch

1956

As The Suicide

Rikky and Pete

1988

As Mrs. Menzies

Australia

1989

As Doreen Swanson

Journey Into Darkness

1968

As Mrs. Latham

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