True Believers (miniseries)
| True Believers | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Miniseries |
| Written by |
Bob Ellis Stephen Ramsay |
| Directed by | Peter Fisk |
| Starring |
Ed Devereaux Simon Chilvers |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Stephen O'Rourke executive Matt Carroll Sandra Levy |
| Running time | 8 x 1 hour |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | 28 June 1988 |
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.[1]
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."[2]
Cast
- Ed Devereaux as Ben Chifley
- Simon Chilvers as H.V. Evatt
- John Bonney as Robert Menzies
- Rob Steele as Clyde Cameron
- John Derum as B.A. Santamaria
- Max Phipps as Sir Frank Packer
- Valerie Bader as Mary Alice Evatt
- Tracy Mann as Tess Ross
- Joan Bruce as Pattie Menzies
- Malcolm Robertson as Idris Williams
- John Ewart as Fred Daly
- Ray Meagher as Tom Burke
- Harold Hopkins as Edgar Ross
- Nick Tate as Les Haylen
- Gary Files as Fred Daly
- Diane Craig as Elsie
- Norman Kaye as Archbishop Daniel Mannix
- Ron Blanchard as Arthur Calwell
- Danny Adcock as Lloyd Ross
References
Filmed on location at The Zig Zag Railway Lithgow, the steam locomotive used was 1072 x Queensland locomotive, South Australian carriages were utilised for some scenes these were stationary for filming. The area at bottom points and the depot became the set, the carriages lost in a bush fire in 2013.
External links
location: Zig Zag Railway Lithgow