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.
- First aired
- 1986-04-27
- Genres
- Drama
- Seasons
- 1 (4 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- Directed / written by
- Marcus Cole, Henri Safran
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Dorothy Allison as Grandma Carr
- Dale Randall as Roy Facey
- John Ley as Eric Facey
- Anthony Richards as Bert (9 Years)
- Benedict Sweeney as Bert (14 Years)
- Dominic Sweeney as Bert
- Pat Bishop as Alice McCall
- Paul Sonkkila as Archie McCall
- Jeffrey Rhoe as Jock McKay
- Maurie Ogden as Cop
- Leslie Wright as Jack Lander
- Raelene Hughes as Young Alice McCall