The True Believers
28/06/1988
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The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
Cast
Ed Devereaux
Ben Chifley
John Bonney
Robert Menzies
Simon Chilvers
H.V. Evatt
John Derum
B.A. Santamaria
Graham Rouse
Arthur Fadden
Nick Tate
Les Hayden
Gary Files
Fred Daly
Stuart McCreery
Allan Dalziel
Mary-Lou Stewart
Joanna Malcolm
Dorothy St. Heaps
Elizabeth Chifley
Leonie-Martin Smith
Ethel Casey
Hec Macmillan
Sir William McKell
Peter Corbett
John Dedman
Michelle Marzo
Rosalind Evatt
Paul Hunt
John Burton
Harold Hopkins
Edgar Ross
Paul Sonkkila
Ron Tate
Bill Young
Jim Cooper
Valerie Bader
Mary Alice Evatt
Ray Meagher
Tom Burke
Ron Blanchard
Arthur Calwell
John Ewart
Fred Daley
Bryan Marshall
Richard Casey
Malcolm Robertson
Idris Williams
Joan Bruce
Pattie Menzies
Kevin Golsby
Narrator
Tim Elliott
Radio Announcer
Kenneth Radley
Bill Parkinson
Danny Adcock
Lloyd Ross
Diane Craig
Elsie
Jeff Ashby
Garfield Barwick
Robin Bowering
Mr. Purcell
Neil Fitzpatrick
H.C. Coombs
Tracy Mann
Tess Ross
Alan McQueen
Jim Healy
Norman Kaye
Archbishop Mannix
Rob Steele
Clyde Cameron
Bob Baines
Stan Keon
Scott McGregor
Jim Comerford
Gerry Duggan
Wally
Ron Hackett
Les McConnan
Colin Borgonon
Laurie Butler
Speaker of the House
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