Australian actress
Barbara Frawley |
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Born | 14 April 1935 |
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Died | 1 March 2004 (aged 68)
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Occupations | - Radio actress
- TV and Film Actress
- voice artist
- children host
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Years active | 1957-1992 |
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Barbara Anne Frawley (14 April 1935 – 1 March 2004)[1] was an Australian actress, voice artist and children's TV host.
She is best known as the voice of young Dot in the 1977 film adaptation of Dot and the Kangaroo,[2] as well as Around the World with Dot and Dot and the Bunny. Apart from the films she appeared in with the Yoram Gross Film Studios, she mainly appeared in cameo and additional voiceover roles.
Biography
Frawley originally was a radio actress in the late 1950s with the ABC, appearing on The Children's Session[3][4] before moving to television, where she appeared in the 1967 TV drama series, Contrabandits[5] and in the 1970s in The Link Men,[6] Spyforce[7] and Homicide.[2][8] Frawley also appeared on episodes of the Australian children's television show, Play School.[9]
Frawley went on to provide the voices for many characters in various Australian animated films and television movies, mainly for Yoram Gross Film Studios, most notably in Dot and the Kangaroo[10][11] and most recently in The Camel Boy.[12][13] Frawley, late of North Bondi, died in Sydney on 1 March 2004.
Filmography
Television series filmography
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