The True Believers

Overview

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."

Top cast

Ed Devereaux

Ben Chifley

John Bonney

Robert Menzies

Simon Chilvers

H.V. Evatt

J

John Derum

B.A. Santamaria

Graham Rouse

Arthur Fadden

Nick Tate

Les Hayden

Gary Files

Fred Daly

S

Stuart McCreery

Allan Dalziel

M

Mary-Lou Stewart

Joanna Malcolm

D

Dorothy St. Heaps

Elizabeth Chifley

L

Leonie-Martin Smith

Ethel Casey

H

Hec Macmillan

Sir William McKell

P

Peter Corbett

John Dedman

M

Michelle Marzo

Rosalind Evatt

P

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

Seasons

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