Dorothy Alison

Actor

About

Read More

Birth Place

Broken Hill, New South Wales, AU

Died

January 17, 1992

Biography

Read More

Australian-born supporting actress who spent much of her career in Great Britain, playing warm, approachable characters in films from "Reach for the Sky" (1956) to "The Nun's Story" (1959) to "Georgy Girl" (1966) to "Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971). Alison's most fondly remembered film performance may be her first, as the sympathetic teacher of the hearing-impaired who finally gets...

Filmography

Read More

Australia (1989)

Malpractice (1989)

A Cry in the Dark (1988)

Rikky And Pete (1988)

A Fortunate Life (1985)

The Winds of Jarrah (1983)

Photos & Videos

View All

Cry In The Dark, A (1988) -- (Original Trailer)

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Helpless Cripple

Biography

Australian-born supporting actress who spent much of her career in Great Britain, playing warm, approachable characters in films from "Reach for the Sky" (1956) to "The Nun's Story" (1959) to "Georgy Girl" (1966) to "Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971). Alison's most fondly remembered film performance may be her first, as the sympathetic teacher of the hearing-impaired who finally gets a young girl to utter sounds in Alexander Mackendrick's "Mandy" (1952). The renaissance in Australian filmmaking during the 1970s and 80s enabled Alison to act more in her native land, where she appeared in "A Cry in the Dark" (1988) and "Malpractice" (1989) and the TV miniseries "A Town Like Alice" (1981).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Australia (1989)

Malpractice (1989)

A Cry in the Dark (1988)

Rikky And Pete (1988)

A Fortunate Life (1985)

The Winds of Jarrah (1983)

The Return of the Soldier (1982)

Brigadier'S Wife

Invitation to the Wedding (1973)

See No Evil (1971)

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)

A Matter of Innocence (1968)

Georgy Girl (1966)

Two Living, One Dead (1964)

The Nun's Story (1959)

The Man Upstairs (1959)

Pickup Alley (1957)

Reach for the Sky (1956)

The Purple Plain (1955)

The Feminine Touch (1955)

High and Dry (1954)

Turn the Key Softly (1953)

Cast (Special)

Life Events

1952

Made film debut in "Mandy"

1981

Appeared as Mrs Firth in the Australian-produced miniseries, "A Town Called Alice"

Videos

Cry In The Dark, A (1988) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for director Fred Schepisi's acclaimed treatment of the case that enthralled and polarized Australia, starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill, A Cry In The Dark, 1988.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Helpless Cripple RAF pilot Douglas Bader (Kenneth More), hospitalized after a reckless crash and having lost the use of both legs, sneaks from his bed, found by nurse Brace (Dorothy Alison), who hears his griping then lays down some law, in the 1956 bio-pic Reach For The Sky.

See No Evil - (Original Trailer) Mia Farrow plays a blind woman who returns home not knowing that a madman has murdered her entire family in See No Evil (1971).

Nun's Story, The - (Original Trailer) A headstrong girl (Audrey Hepburn) fights the strictures of the Catholic Church in Europe and the Belgian Congo in The Nun's Story (1959), directed by Fred Zinnemann and nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Bibliography

By using this site, you agree to our updated Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use