A Fortunate Life

Drama

5.0

1 Season

4 Episodes

April 27, 1986

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Overview

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.

Network

Nine Network

Seasons

Miniseries

4 episodes

Cast

Dorothy Allison

Grandma Carr

Dale Randall

Roy Facey

John Ley

Eric Facey

Anthony Richards

Bert (9 Years)

Benedict Sweeney

Bert (14 Years)

Dominic Sweeney

Bert

Pat Bishop

Alice McCall

A Fortunate Life

Overview

Seasons

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