Dorothy Alison
Dorothy Alison (4 April 1925 – 17 January 1992) was an Australian stage, film and television actress.
She was born in the New South Wales mining city of Broken Hill and educated at Sydney Girls High School.[1] She moved to London in 1949 to further her career. Aside from her numerous mostly-supporting film roles, she appeared in several television programmes and miniseries, including a prominent role in A Town Like Alice, The Adventures of Robin Hood as the Duchess Constance and other TV shows.
She was nominated for two BAFTA awards: Most Promising Newcomer for Mandy (1952) and Best British Actress for Reach for the Sky (1956). For her performance in A Town Like Alice, she won the 1982 Logie Award (Australian television) for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie.
She died in London two-and-a-half months before her 67th birthday.
Selected filmography
- Sons of Matthew (1949)
- Eureka Stockade (1949)
- Mandy (1952)
- Turn the Key Softly (1953)
- The Maggie (1954)
- The Purple Plain (1954)
- The Feminine Touch (1956)
- The Long Arm (1956)
- Reach for the Sky (1956)
- The Silken Affair (1956)
- The Scamp (1957)
- Interpol (1957)
- The Man Upstairs (1958)
- Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959)
- The Nun's Story (1959)
- Two Living, One Dead (1961)
- Georgy Girl (1966)
- Pretty Polly (1967)
- Blind Terror, also known as See No Evil (1971)
- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
- The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)
- The Return of the Soldier (1982)
- The Winds of Jarrah (1983)
- Rikky and Pete (1988)
- Evil Angels, also known as A Cry in the Dark (1988)
- Australia (1989)
- Malpractice (1989)
References
- ↑ "Distinguished Old Girls". History of Sydney Girls High School. Sydney Girls High School. Retrieved 2008-05-25.