Barbara Frawley

{{Short description|Australian actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}

{{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}}

{{infobox person

| name = Barbara Frawley

| birth_name = Barbara Anne Frawley

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|04|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Australia

| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|03|01|1935|04|14|df=y}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Radio actress|television and film actress| voice actress|children's host}}

| years_active = 1957–1992

}}

Barbara Anne Frawley (14 April 1935 – 1 March 2004){{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292417/bio|title=Barbara Frawley|website=IMDb}} was an Australian actress, voice actress and children's television host.

She was best known as the voice of young Dot in the 1977 film adaptation of Dot and the Kangaroo,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292417/|title=Barbara Frawley|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=21 February 2010}} 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{{cite web|url=http://www.abctvgorehill.com.au/assets/contributions/margaret_delves_2E.htm|title=Margaret Delves (now Moore) Remembers|publisher=ABC TV at Gore Hill|author1=Bob Sitsky|author2=Colin McPherson|date=March 2006|accessdate=22 February 2010|archive-date=3 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303165845/http://abctvgorehill.com.au/assets/contributions/margaret_delves_2E.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abctvgorehill.com.au/abchtm/stff_training.htm|title=Staff Training|publisher=ABC TV at Gore Hill|author1=Bob Sitsky |author2=Colin McPherson |date=March 2006|accessdate=22 February 2010}} before moving to television, where she appeared in the 1967 TV drama series, Contrabandits{{cite web|url=http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/contrab1.htm|title=Contrabandits Episode Details|publisher=Classic Australian Television|last=Stoner|first=Don|accessdate=20 February 2010}} and in the 1970s in The Link Men,{{cite web|url=http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/LinkMenEps.htm|title=The Link Men Episode Details|publisher=Classic Australian Television|last=Stoner|first=Don|accessdate=20 February 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100203132909/http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/LinkMenEps.htm| archivedate= 3 February 2010 | url-status= live}} Spyforce{{cite web|url=http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/SpyforceEpisodes.htm|title=Spyforce Episode Details|publisher=Classic Australian Television|last=Stoner|first=Don|accessdate=20 February 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100323185107/http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/SpyforceEpisodes.htm| archivedate= 23 March 2010 | url-status= live}} and Homicide.{{cite web|url=http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/homeps351-400.htm|title=Homicide Episode Details|publisher=Classic Australian Television|last=Stoner|first=Don|accessdate=20 February 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100328150258/http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/homeps351-400.htm| archivedate= 28 March 2010 | url-status= live}} Frawley also appeared on episodes of the Australian children's television show, Play School.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvmem.com/OZST/tv/A-Z/P/PLAYSCHO/PLAYSCHO.html |title=Play School |publisher=Nodette Enterprises Pty Ltd |work=Australian Television Memorabilia Guide |accessdate=22 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122193234/http://tvmem.com/OZST/tv/A-Z/P/PLAYSCHO/PLAYSCHO.html |archivedate=22 January 2009 |df=dmy }}

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{{cite web|url=http://aso.gov.au/people/Barbara_Frawley/|title=Barbara Frawley|publisher=Australian Screen Online|accessdate=22 February 2010}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46453833 |title=Dot and the Kangaroo |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |date=7 December 1977 |accessdate=29 November 2013 |page=16 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and most recently in The Camel Boy.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122477817 |title=Camel Boy's Story |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=12 January 1985 |accessdate=29 November 2013 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116417191 |title=Timestyle |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=10 July 1983 |accessdate=29 November 2013 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Frawley, late of North Bondi, died in Sydney on 1 March 2004.

Filmography

Television series filmography

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