The True Believers
War & Politics
Drama
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."
1988-06-28
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Cast
Ed Devereaux as Ben Chifley
John Bonney as Robert Menzies
Simon Chilvers as H.V. Evatt
Graham Rouse as Arthur Fadden
Nick Tate as Les Hayden
Gary Files as Fred Daly
Harold Hopkins as Edgar Ross
Paul Sonkkila as Ron Tate
Bill Young as Jim Cooper
Valerie Bader as Mary Alice Evatt
Ray Meagher as Tom Burke
John Ewart as Fred Daley
Bryan Marshall as Richard Casey
Joan Bruce as Pattie Menzies
Kevin Golsby as Narrator
Kenneth Radley as Bill Parkinson
Danny Adcock as Lloyd Ross
Diane Craig as Elsie
Robin Bowering as Mr. Purcell
Tracy Mann as Tess Ross
Norman Kaye as Archbishop Mannix
Rob Steele as Clyde Cameron
Bob Baines as Stan Keon
Gerry Duggan as Wally
Colin Borgonon