A Fortunate Life
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 Allison
Grandma Carr
4 episodes
Dale Randall
Roy Facey
4 episodes
John Ley
Eric Facey
4 episodes
Anthony Richards
Bert (9 Years)
4 episodes
Benedict Sweeney
Bert (14 Years)
4 episodes
Dominic Sweeney
Bert
4 episodes
Pat Bishop
Alice McCall
4 episodes
Paul Sonkkila
Archie McCall
4 episodes
Jeffrey Rhoe
Jock McKay
4 episodes
Maurie Ogden
Cop
4 episodes
Leslie Wright
Jack Lander
4 episodes
Raelene Hughes
Young Alice McCall
4 episodes
Val Lehman
Bert's Mother
4 episodes
Ray Meagher
Bad Bob
4 episodes
Bill Hunter
Charlie Bibby
4 episodes
Bill Kerr
Narrator (voice)
4 episodes
Andrew Kovacevich
1 episode
Seasons
Miniseries
1986 · 4 eps
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