Dorothy Alison

Actor

1925-04-04 – 1992-01-17 · Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

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.

• Evil Angels (1988) — Avis Murchison
• The Nun's Story (1959) — Sister Aurelie
• See No Evil (1971) — Betty Rexton
• Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) — Mrs. Spencer
• Georgy Girl (1966) — Health Visitor
• The 'Maggie' (1954) — Miss Peters
• Reach for the Sky (1956) — Nurse Brace
• The Prince and the Pauper (1962) — Mrs. Canty
• Mandy (1952) — Miss Stockton
• The Long Arm (1956) — Mary Halliday
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) — Mrs. Richard Allen
• The Return of the Soldier (1983) — Brigadier's Wife
• Interpol (1957) — Helen
• Turn the Key Softly (1953) — Joan
• Eureka Stockade (1949) — Mrs. Bentley
• The Scamp (1957) — Barbara Leigh
• The Man Upstairs (1958) — Mrs. Barnes
• Australia (1989) — Doreen Swanson
• Rikky and Pete (1988) — Mrs. Menzies
• Pretty Polly (1967) — Mrs. Barlow
• The Feminine Touch (1956) — The Suicide
• Two Living, One Dead (1961) — Esther Kester
• The Silken Affair (1956) — Mrs. Tweakham
• Life In Emergency Ward 10 (1959) — Sister Jane Fraser