A Fortunate Life

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.

Seasons

• Miniseries1986

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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

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  Paul Sonkkila

  Archie McCall

• Jeffrey Rhoe

  Jock McKay

• Maurie Ogden

  Cop

• Leslie Wright

  Jack Lander

• Raelene Hughes

  Young Alice McCall

• ★ 6.3

  Lady Chatterley

  1993

• ★ 7.6

  Our World War

  2014

• ★ 7.0

  Alex Haley's Queen

  1993

• ★ 7.5

  The Crimson Field

  2014

• ★ 7.4

  Roots

  1977

• ★ 7.1

  Fosse/Verdon

  2019

• ★ 7.2

  Banished

  2015

• ★ 7.8

  Hornblower

  1998

• ★ 7.8

  Poldark

  2015

• ★ 6.9

  The Devil's Whore

  2008

• ★ 7.7

  Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

  2012

• ★ 7.7

  Daniel Deronda

  2002

• ★ 6.8

  The Blue and the Gray

  1982

• ★ 6.8

  Sons of Liberty

  2015

• ★ 7.2

  Shackleton

  2002

• ★ 6.5

  The Jewel in the Crown

  1984

• ★ 7.5

  Army Wives

  2007

• ★ 7.3

  The Village

  2013