Biography
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).
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Career Milestones
| Toured Australia in "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Lauren Bacall and in "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" in the 1980s | ||
1952 | Made film debut in "Mandy" | |
1981 | Appeared as Mrs Firth in the Australian-produced miniseries, "A Town Called Alice" | |
Awards
1952 | BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer To Film in Mandy |
1956 | BAFTA Award for British Actress in Reach For the Sky |