A Fortunate Life

1986, drama

90 minutes

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...

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Cast

Dorothy Allison

Grandma Carr (3 episodes)

Dale Randall

Roy Facey (3 episodes)

John Ley

Eric Facey (3 episodes)

Anthony Richards

Bert (9 Years) (3 episodes)

Benedict Sweeney

Bert (14 Years) (3 episodes)

Dominic Sweeney

Bert (3 episodes)

Pat Bishop

Alice McCall (3 episodes)

Paul Sonkkila

Archie McCall (3 episodes)

Jeffrey Rhoe

Jock McKay (3 episodes)

Maurie Ogden

Cop (3 episodes)

Leslie Wright

Jack Lander (3 episodes)

Raelene Hughes

Young Alice McCall (3 episodes)

Val Lehman

Bert's Mother (3 episodes)

Ray Meagher

Bad Bob (3 episodes)

Bill Hunter

Bill Hunter

Charlie Bibby (3 episodes)

Bill Kerr

Bill Kerr

Narrator (voice) (3 episodes)

Andrew Kovacevich

(1 episode)

Crew

Directing

Henri Safran

Director (3 episodes)

Marcus Cole

Marcus Cole

Director (3 episodes)

Writing

Ken Kelso

Writer (3 episodes)

A.B. Facey

Book (3 episodes)

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