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Joan Bruce

Joan Bruce

Acting

Biography

Born Joan Thompson, she was an English-Australian actress born in Surrey, England to George and Olive Thompson. She took the stage surname of Bruce after her maternal grandmother. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Known For

The True Believers
7.0

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."

The True Believers

1988
Dot and the Kangaroo
7.3

An Australian girl gets lost in the Outback, but she's befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this film based on Ethel Pedley's 1899 children's book, with animated humans and animals superimposed upon a live-action background.

Dot and the Kangaroo

1977
The Newman Shame
9.0

John Brandy is an ex-cop on holiday in Singapore with his girlfriend Ginger when he hears an old Perth banker friend of his, Frank Newman, has committed suicide. He travels to Perth and discovers that Newman killed himself after being drugged at a party and found himself in a pornographic film; he was blackmailed and embezzled money to pay off his tormentors, but when the film was distributed anyway he decided to take his own life. Newman and Ginger decide to investigate who is behind the blackmail racket.

The Newman Shame

1978
The Facts of Life Down Under
6.3

Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a beau from many years ago; Natalie is stranded in the outback; and Tootie meets a Yale student who pretends to be a young Aborigine.

The Facts of Life Down Under

1987
Sarah
5.8

During World War II, an orphaned young girl seeks to survive and perhaps even help resistance fighters battle the Nazis.

Sarah

1982