Joan Bruce

Joan Bruce

Born: February 29, 1928
Died: April 26, 2014
in Surrey, England, UK
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.

Movies for Joan Bruce...

Title: The True Believers
Character: Pattie Menzies
Released: June 28, 1988
Type: TV
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."
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Sarah
Title: Sarah
Released: August 1, 1982
Type: Movie
During World War II, an orphaned young girl seeks to survive and perhaps even help resistance fighters battle the Nazis.
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The Newman Shame
Title: The Newman Shame
Character: Betty Newman
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
John Brandy (George Lazenby) is an ex-cop on holiday in Singapore with his girlfriend Ginger (Diane Craig) when he hears an old Perth banker friend of his, Frank Newman (Ken Goodlet), 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.
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Dot and the Kangaroo
Title: Dot and the Kangaroo
Character: The Kangaroo / Mother (voice)
Released: May 14, 1977
Type: Movie
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.