Lois Ramsey

Lois June Ramsey (née Dickson ; 18 June 1922 – 22 January 2016) also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series The Box and Prisoner. She often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas.

She was a major cast member of the 1970s soap opera The Box as tea lady Mrs. Hopkins, appearing for the entire run of the serial. Ramsey also had two prominent stints in Prisoner. Her first role was as dotty social worker Agnes Forster in 1980. In 1985-1986 Ramsey played elderly prison inmate Ettie Parslow who thought the Second World War was still going on.

She had numerous roles in TV soap opera/serials including Crawford Productions serials Homicide, The Sullivans, Cop Shop, as well as A Country Practice, E Street, Home and Away, and Blue Heelers, Always Greener and All Saints and the films Crackerjack and BoyTown.

AFI Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series for a performance in the television series Grass Roots.

Also a stage actress, she was one of the founders of the Flinders Street Revue Company in 1961 and appeared later she appeared in numerous productions with both the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Born to Bill and Maud Dickson, she married Cuthbert Ward Ramsey on 25 September 1943. They had two children: writer/director Stephen Ramsey and the late actress Penny Ramsey.