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