Dorothy Alison

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 1925-04-04

Died: 1992-01-17

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	Eureka Stockade	Mrs. Bentley	56
2	1952	Mandy	Miss Stockton	69
3	1953	Turn the Key Softly	Joan	62
4	1954	The 'Maggie'	Miss Peters	61
5	1956	The Long Arm	Mary Halliday	70
6	1956	The Feminine Touch	The Suicide	60
7	1956	Reach for the Sky	Nurse Brace	68
8	1956	The Silken Affair	Mrs. Tweakham	10
9	1957	Interpol	Helen	64
10	1957	The Scamp	Barbara Leigh	63
11	1958	The Man Upstairs	Mrs. Barnes	61
12	1959	Life In Emergency Ward 10	Sister Jane Fraser	70
13	1959	The Nun's Story	Sister Aurelie	72
14	1961	Two Living, One Dead	Esther Kester	70
15	1962	The Prince and the Pauper	Mrs. Canty	73
16	1966	Georgy Girl	Health Visitor	63
17	1967	Pretty Polly	Mrs. Barlow	40
18	1968	Journey Into Darkness	Mrs. Latham	0
19	1971	See No Evil	Betty Rexton	65
20	1971	Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde	Mrs. Spencer	62
21	1972	The Amazing Mr. Blunden	Mrs. Richard Allen	62
22	1980	The Errand	Farmer's Wife	70
23	1983	The Return of the Soldier	Brigadier's Wife	62
24	1983	The Winds of Jarrah	Mrs. Sullivan	0
25	1988	Two Brothers Running	Mrs. Widmore	0
26	1988	Rikky and Pete	Mrs. Menzies	43
27	1988	Evil Angels	Avis Murchison	67
28	1989	Australia	Doreen Swanson	44

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Matilda	64
2	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Duchess Constance	64
3	1957	A Time Of Day		0
4	1961	Stryker of the Yard		0
5	1967	Callan		70
6	1968	Journey to the Unknown		63
7	1969	The Main Chance	Chairman of Magistrates	77
8	1981	A Town Like Alice	Mrs. Frith	76
9	1986	The Flying Doctors	Essie Harrington	61