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Actor
Dorothy Alison
Acting
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Movies: 27Series: 6
TMDB ID: 132600
IMDb ID: nm0019704
Known for: Acting
Born: April 4, 1925
Died: January 17, 1992
Age: 66
Place of birth: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1949 - 1989
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.64
Wikidata: Q2416040
Also known 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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Dorothy Alison.
4.1
Australia
as Doreen Swanson
1989 Movie
6.7
Evil Angels
as Avis Murchison
1988 Movie
4.0
Rikky and Pete
as Mrs. Menzies
1988 Movie
Two Brothers Running
as Mrs. Widmore
1988 Movie
The Winds of Jarrah
as Mrs. Sullivan
1983 Movie
6.2
The Return of the Soldier
as Brigadier's Wife
1983 Movie
7.0
The Errand
as The Farmer's Wife
1980 Movie
6.5
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mrs. Richard Allen
1972 Movie
6.1
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
as Mrs. Spencer
1971 Movie
6.5
See No Evil
as Betty Rexton
1971 Movie
Journey Into Darkness
as Mrs. Latham
1968 Movie
3.6
Pretty Polly
as Mrs. Barlow
1967 Movie
6.2
Georgy Girl
as Health Visitor
1966 Movie
7.2
The Prince and the Pauper
as Mrs. Canty
1962 Movie
7.2
The Nun's Story
as Sister Aurelie
1959 Movie
7.0
Life In Emergency Ward 10
as Sister Jane Fraser
1959 Movie
6.1
The Man Upstairs
as Mrs. Barnes
1958 Movie
6.0
The Scamp
as Barbara Leigh
1957 Movie
6.4
Interpol
as Helen
1957 Movie
1.0
The Silken Affair
as Mrs. Tweakham
1956 Movie
6.8
Reach for the Sky
as Nurse Brace
1956 Movie
6.2
The Feminine Touch
as The Suicide
1956 Movie
6.9
The Long Arm
as Mary Halliday
1956 Movie
6.3
The 'Maggie'
as Miss Peters
1954 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Dorothy Alison.
6.6
The Flying Doctors
as Essie Harrington • 1 eps
1986 Series
7.6
A Town Like Alice
as Mrs. Frith • 2 eps
1981 Series
7.7
The Main Chance
as Chairman of Magistrates • 1 eps
1969 Series
6.3
Journey to the Unknown
1 eps
1968 Series
7.0
Callan
1 eps
1967 Series
6.3
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Matilda • 1 eps
1955 Series