A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life (1986)


  • Genre: Drama
  • First Air Date: 1986-04-27
  • Last Air Date: 1986-04-30
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 4
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 90 min.
  • Production Company: PBL Productions
  • Networks: Nine Network
  • Directors: Henri Safran, Marcus Cole.
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Summary

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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A Fortunate Life Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 1986-04-27
4 Episodes

A Fortunate Life Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1Starting Out90 min
Season 1Episode 2Bush Schooling90 min
Season 1Episode 3Journey90 min
Season 1Episode 4Providence90 min
  • 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
  • Val Lehman

    as Bert's Mother
  • Ray Meagher

    as Bad Bob
  • Bill Hunter

    as Charlie Bibby
  • Bill Kerr

    as Narrator (voice)
Writing Ken Kelso Writer
Directing Henri Safran Director
Directing Marcus Cole Director
Writing A.B. Facey Book