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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 4, 1925
Died
January 17, 1992
Place of Birth
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Also Known As
- Dorothy Dickson
- Perk Allison
Dorothy Alison
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.5
Doreen Swanson
Australia
1989
6.7
Avis Murchison
Evil Angels
1988
4.3
Mrs. Menzies
Rikky and Pete
1988
0.0
Mrs. Widmore
Two Brothers Running
1988
6.1
Essie Harrington
The Flying Doctors
1986
0.0
Mrs. Sullivan
The Winds of Jarrah
1983
6.2
Brigadier's Wife
The Return of the Soldier
1983
7.6
Mrs. Frith
A Town Like Alice
1981
7.0
Farmer's Wife
The Errand
1980
6.2
Mrs. Richard Allen
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972
Credits
Australia
as Doreen Swanson
1989
4.5
Evil Angels
as Avis Murchison
1988
6.7
Rikky and Pete
as Mrs. Menzies
1988
4.3
Two Brothers Running
as Mrs. Widmore
1988
0.0
The Flying Doctors
as Essie Harrington
1986
6.1
The Winds of Jarrah
as Mrs. Sullivan
1983
0.0
The Return of the Soldier
as Brigadier's Wife
1983
6.2
A Town Like Alice
as Mrs. Frith
1981
7.6
The Errand
as Farmer's Wife
1980
7.0
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mrs. Richard Allen
1972
6.2
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
as Mrs. Spencer
1971
6.2
See No Evil
as Betty Rexton
1971
6.5
The Main Chance
as Chairman of Magistrates
1969
7.7
Journey to the Unknown
1968
6.3
Journey Into Darkness
as Mrs. Latham
1968
0.0
Pretty Polly
as Mrs. Barlow
1967
4.0
Callan
1967
7.0
Georgy Girl
as Health Visitor
1966
6.3
The Prince and the Pauper
as Mrs. Canty
1962
7.3
🎬
Stryker of the Yard
1961
0.0
🎬
Two Living, One Dead
as Esther Kester
1961
7.0
The Nun's Story
as Sister Aurelie
1959
7.2
Life In Emergency Ward 10
as Sister Jane Fraser
1959
7.0
The Man Upstairs
as Mrs. Barnes
1958
6.1
🎬
A Time Of Day
1957
0.0
The Scamp
as Barbara Leigh
1957
6.3
Interpol
as Helen
1957
6.4
The Silken Affair
as Mrs. Tweakham
1956
1.0
Reach for the Sky
as Nurse Brace
1956
6.8
The Feminine Touch
as The Suicide
1956
6.0
The Long Arm
as Mary Halliday
1956
7.0
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Matilda
1955
6.1
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Duchess Constance
1955
6.1
The 'Maggie'
as Miss Peters
1954
6.2
Turn the Key Softly
as Joan
1953
6.2
Mandy
as Miss Stockton
1952
6.9
Eureka Stockade
as Mrs. Bentley
1949
5.6