My Brilliant Career (1979) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Cast

Judy Davis as Sybylla Melvyn
Sam Neill as Harry Beecham
Wendy Hughes as Aunt Helen
Robert Grubb as Frank Hawdon
Max Cullen as Mr. McSwatt
Aileen Britton as Grandma Bossier
Peter Whitford as Uncle Julius
Patricia Kennedy as Aunt Gussie
Alan Hopgood as Father
Julia Blake as Mother
David Franklin as Horace
Marion Shad as Gertie
Aaron Wood as Stanley
Sue Davies as Aurora
Gordon Piper as Barman
James Moss as Pub Drinker
Basil Clarke as Butler
Bill Charlton as Joe
Suzanne Roylance as Biddie
Zelda Smyth as Ethel
Bobbie Ward as Mrs. Butler
Amanda Pratt as Blanche Derrick
Dorothy St. Heaps as Mrs. Derrick
Gerry Duggan as Squatter
Babs McMillan as Miss Benson
Carole Skinner as Mrs. McSwatt
Tony Hughes as Peter McSwat
Tina Robinson Hansen as Lizer McSwat
Aaron Corrin as Jimmy McSwat
Sharon Crouch as Sarah McSwat
Robert Austin as Willie McSwat
Mark Spain as Tommy McSwat
Simone Buchanan as Mary Anne
Hayley Joye as Rosie Jane
Kathleen Percival as Baby
Ray Meagher as Mailman (uncredited)

Crew

Gillian Armstrong — Director
Margaret Fink — Producer
Miles Franklin — Novel
Eleanor Witcombe — Writer
Nathan Waks — Original Music Composer
Donald McAlpine — Director of Photography

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