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A Fortunate Life

TV19865.0/10Drama

About A Fortunate Life

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.

At a glance

Release year

1986

Rating

5.0/10

Type

Series

Provider

Neon · Yoru · Cypher · Sage · Breach · Vyse

Genres

Drama

Actors

D

Dorothy Allison

Grandma Carr

D

Dale Randall

Roy Facey

J

John Ley

Eric Facey

A

Anthony Richards

Bert (9 Years)

B

Benedict Sweeney

Bert (14 Years)

D

Dominic Sweeney

Bert

P

Pat Bishop

Alice McCall

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Paul Sonkkila

Archie McCall

J

Jeffrey Rhoe

Jock McKay

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