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title: "My Brilliant Career: cast and crew"
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cast: 36
crew: 24
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# My Brilliant Career (1979): cast and crew

36 cast and 24 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Judy Davis](https://film.one/person/judy-davis.md) as Sybylla Melvyn
- [Sam Neill](https://film.one/person/sam-neill.md) as Harry Beecham
- [Wendy Hughes](https://film.one/person/wendy-hughes.md) as Aunt Helen
- [Robert Grubb](https://film.one/person/robert-grubb.md) as Frank Hawdon
- [Max Cullen](https://film.one/person/max-cullen.md) as Mr. McSwatt
- [Aileen Britton](https://film.one/person/aileen-britton.md) as Grandma Bossier
- [Peter Whitford](https://film.one/person/peter-whitford.md) as Uncle Julius
- [Patricia Kennedy](https://film.one/person/patricia-kennedy.md) as Aunt Gussie
- [Alan Hopgood](https://film.one/person/alan-hopgood.md) as Father
- [Julia Blake](https://film.one/person/julia-blake.md) as Mother
- [David Franklin](https://film.one/person/david-franklin.md) as Horace
- [Marion Shad](https://film.one/person/marion-shad.md) 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](https://film.one/person/gerry-duggan.md) 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)

## Directing

- [Gillian Armstrong](https://film.one/person/gillian-armstrong.md): Director

## Writing

- Miles Franklin: Novel
- [Eleanor Witcombe](https://film.one/person/eleanor-witcombe.md): Writer

## Production

- [Margaret Fink](https://film.one/person/margaret-fink.md): Producer
- [Jane Scott](https://film.one/person/jane-scott.md): Associate Producer
- Treisha Ghent: Production Accountant
- Liz Mullinar: Casting
- Hilary Linstead: Casting

## Camera

- Louis Irving: Camera Operator
- Peter Moss: Camera Operator
- Grahame Litchfield: Grip
- David Kynoch: Still Photographer
- David Burr: Focus Puller
- Richard Merryman: Second Assistant Camera
- Ross Erickson: Key Grip
- [Donald McAlpine](https://film.one/person/donald-mcalpine.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Nicholas Beauman](https://film.one/person/nicholas-beauman.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Greg Bell: Sound Editor
- [Nathan Waks](https://film.one/person/nathan-waks.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- Neil Angwin: Art Direction
- [Luciana Arrighi](https://film.one/person/luciana-arrighi.md): Production Design

## Costume and make-up

- Jill Porter: Makeup Artist
- [Anna Senior](https://film.one/person/anna-senior.md): Costume Design

## Visual effects

- Roger Cowland: Visual Effects

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