A Fortunate Life (1986)
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
Cast
Dorothy AllisonGrandma CarrDale RandallRoy FaceyJohn LeyEric FaceyAnthony RichardsBert (9 Years)Benedict SweeneyBert (14 Years)Dominic SweeneyBertPat BishopAlice McCall
Paul SonkkilaArchie McCallJeffrey RhoeJock McKayMaurie OgdenCopLeslie WrightJack LanderRaelene HughesYoung Alice McCall
Val LehmanBert's Mother
Ray MeagherBad Bob
Bill HunterCharlie Bibby
Paul SonkkilaArchie McCallJeffrey RhoeJock McKayMaurie OgdenCopLeslie WrightJack LanderRaelene HughesYoung Alice McCallVal LehmanBert's MotherRay MeagherBad BobBill HunterCharlie Bibby
