# 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.

## Career
### The Box and Prisoner

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.

### Television and film roles

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.

### Stage roles

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.

## Personal life

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.

## Filmography
### Film

| Title | Year | Role | Type |
| 1975 | The Box | Mrs. Hopkins | Feature film |
| 1983 | Undercover | Landlady | Feature film |
| 1984 | One Night Stand | Salvation Army Woman | Feature film |
| 1993 | Shotgun Wedding | Voice (as Lois Ramsay) | Feature film |
| 1996 | River Street | Edna Davis | Feature film |
| 1996 | Roses | Dawn | Short film |
| 1997 | Road to Nhill | Carmel | Feature film |
| 1998 | Tulip | Margaret | Short film |
| 1999 | Fresh Air | Mrs. Beck | Feature film |
| 2002 | Crackerjack | Gwen | Feature film |
| 2006 | BoyTown | Gran | Feature film |
| 2007 | Cool White | Grace | Short film |

### Television

| Title | Year | Role | Type |
| 1962; 1963 | Consider Your Verdict | Recurring Guest role: Marjorie Buxton (as Lois Ramsay) | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1965 | The Mavis Bramston Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1967 | Adventures of the Seaspray | | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1967-1974 | Homicide | Guest roles: Ivy Young / Mrs. Hubble / Mrs. Jones | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1968 | The Battlers | | TV series |
| 1969 | Riptide | Guest role: Anastasia Burns | TV series, episode 4: "Surprise Surprise" |
| 1970 | The Link Men | Guest role: Mother | TV series, 2 episodes: "Somebody's Kid Is Missing", "Mother" |
| 1974-1977 | The Box | Regular roles: Mrs. Hopkins / Mrs. Hawker (as Lois Ramsay) | TV series, 197 episodes |
| 1975 | Pot of Gold | Guest judge | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1976 | The Young Doctors | Recurring Guest role: Winnie Parsons | TV series |
| 1977 | Young Ramsay | Guest role: Maisie O'Brien (as Lois Ramsay) | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1977-1978 | The Sullivans | Recurring Guest role: Mrs. Patterson | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1978 | Cop Shop | Guest role: Mrs. Blair | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1978 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest (with Judy Nunn) | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1978 | The Truckies | Regular role: Dora | TV series, 12 episodes |
| 1980; 1986 | Prisoner | Recurring role: Agnes Forster | TV series |
| 1981 | Air Hawk: Star of the North | Support role: Dorcas (as Lois Ramsay) | TV movie |
| 1981 | A Town Like Alice | Recurring role: Mrs. Driver | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 1982-1990 | A Country Practice | Guest roles: Gladys Carter / Pearl Murray / Irene Sinclair / Nellie Dickinson | TV series, 8 episodes |
| 1983 | Carson's Law | Guest role: Mrs. Griffin | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1985 | The Harp in the South | Support role: Mrs. Campion | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1986 | Prisoner | Recurring role: Ettie Parslow | TV series |
| 1987 | Poor Man's Orange | Support role: Mrs. Campion | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Willing and Abel | Guest role | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1988 | Rafferty's Rules | Guest role: Miss Mitford | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1989 | E Street | Recurring role: Lillian Patchett | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 1989; 1993 | G.P. | Recurring role: Lily Cartwright | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1994; 1999 | Blue Heelers | Guest role: Nora Sharpe | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1994 | Mother and Son | Guest role: Butcher #1 (as Lois Ramsay) | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1997 | Heartbreak High | Guest role: Ethel | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1997 | An Unexpected Drama: The Making of the Feature film Road to Nhill | Herself - Actress | Video |
| 1999; 2004 | All Saints | Guest role: Norma Blunt | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1999 | Water Rats | Guest role: Shirley Martin | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1999 | Blue Heelers | Guest role: Eileen Hart | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2000 | Above the Law | Recurring role: Flo Price | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 2000 | Home and Away | Guest role: Mrs. Trent | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2000 | Grass Roots | Guest role: Mrs. Robbins (as Lois Ramsay) | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2001 | My Husband My Killer | Support role: Mrs. May Carmichael | TV movie |
| 2001 | Always Greener | Guest role: Old Woman | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2004 | All Saints | Recurring role: Thelma Franklin | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 2007 | BoyTown Confidential | Gran | Video |
| 2012 | Rake | Guest role: Dolores | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2015 | Studio 10 | Herself (with Judy Nunn) | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2015 | Judith Lucy Is All Woman | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |