A Fortunate Life
Ended
1986
4 Episodes
90 min
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Cast
Dorothy Allison
Grandma Carr
Dale Randall
Roy Facey
John Ley
Eric Facey
Anthony Richards
Bert (9 Years)
Benedict Sweeney
Bert (14 Years)
Dominic Sweeney
Bert
Pat Bishop
Alice McCall
Paul Sonkkila
Archie McCall
Jeffrey Rhoe
Jock McKay
Maurie Ogden
Cop
Leslie Wright
Jack Lander
Raelene Hughes
Young Alice McCall
Val Lehman
Bert's Mother
Ray Meagher
Bad Bob
Bill Hunter
Charlie Bibby
Bill Kerr
Narrator (voice)
Synopsis
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.