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.