Acting
Joan Bruce
Born 1928-02-29 · 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.
Acting credits
5.8During World War II, an orphaned young girl seeks to survive and perhaps even help resistance fighters battle the Nazis.
Sarah
1982
6.3Blair, 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
7.3An 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
9.0John 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