Lois Ramsey
Lois June Ramsey (; 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" as two different characters. As a character actress of both drama and comic roles in numerous serials, 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. She also had 2 prominent stints in "Prisoner"—firstly  as dotty social worker Agnes Forster in 1980 in 1985 as an elderly inmate Ettie Parslow, who thought that 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 "Boystown" 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.