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A Fortunate Life
5.0 / 10• 1986•1 Season · 4 Episodes•TV-14• English•Ended
Drama
About the show
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.
Starring
DA
Dorothy Allison
Grandma Carr
DR
Dale Randall
Roy Facey
JL
John Ley
Eric Facey
AR
Anthony Richards
Bert (9 Years)
BS
Benedict Sweeney
Bert (14 Years)
DS
Dominic Sweeney
Bert
PB
Pat Bishop
Alice McCall
Paul Sonkkila
Archie McCall
