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A Fortunate Life
TV Series
A Fortunate Life
Drama

A Fortunate Life

5.0/ 10 3 votes 1986 90m / ep 1 popularity

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

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Seasons

1

Episodes

4

Status

Ended

Cast

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Dorothy Allison

Grandma Carr

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Dale Randall

Roy Facey

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John Ley

Eric Facey

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Anthony Richards

Bert (9 Years)

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Benedict Sweeney

Bert (14 Years)

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Dominic Sweeney

Bert

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Pat Bishop

Alice McCall

Paul Sonkkila

Paul Sonkkila

Archie McCall

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