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Dorothy Alison

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Australian stage, film, and television actress (1925−1992)

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  • Primary school children's literacy and their parents' involvement in homework

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Film & TV

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.…

Known for

  • Australia — Doreen Swanson1989
  • Rikky and Pete — Mrs. Menzies1988
  • Two Brothers Running — Mrs. Widmore1988
  • Evil Angels — Avis Murchison1988
  • The Flying Doctors — Essie Harrington1986
  • The Winds of Jarrah — Mrs. Sullivan1983
  • The Return of the Soldier — Brigadier's Wife1983
  • A Town Like Alice — Mrs. Frith1981
  • The Errand — The Farmer's Wife1980
  • The Amazing Mr. Blunden — Mrs. Richard Allen1972

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Type
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Active from
1951-07-08

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Instance of
human
Given name
Dorothy
Gender
female
Citizenship
Australia
Place of birth
Broken Hill
Place of death
London
Occupation
actor
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date of birth
1925-04-04
date of death
1992-01-17
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