Australian Television: The Potato Factory

Presented by Screentime and the Australian Film Finance Corporation
in association with Columbia Tri Star Television

Executive Producer: Des Monaghan
Producer: Anthony Buckley
Screenplay by: Alan Seymour
Directed by: Robert Marchand

Aired: 2000

Based on Bryce Courtenay's novel of the same name, this four-hour miniseries tells the story of Ikey Solomon, his wife Hannah and his mistress Mary, who get caught in the criminal world of early 19th-century London and the convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land in Australia.

Starring	as
Ben Cross	Ikey Solomon
Lisa McCune	Mary Abacus
Sonia Todd	Hannah Solomon
Robert Grubb	Mr. Emmett
David Ngoombujarra	Billy Gonequeer
Daniel Maynard	Flash Bob
Diane Smith	Margaret Keating
Ben Cross	Reuban Reuban
Linal Haft	George Madden
Douglas Hedge	Reverend Smedley
Austen Tayshus	Abraham Van Esselyn
David Weatherley	Sir Jasper Waterlow

with	as
Jordan Mbakwe	Toddler Hawk
Hilton Denis	Hawk (8 years)
David Denis	Hawk (12 years)
Dray Guerin	Toddler Tommo
Ben Wynyard	Tommo (8 years)
Adam Saunders	Tommo (12 years)
Nathan Kotzur	Adult David
Scott Barros	English David
Firass Dirani	Australian David
Janelle Stacey	English Sarah
Ashley Fitzgerald	Australian Sarah
Rebecca Smee	Adult Becky
Eaquel Moore	English Becky
Meaghan Yates	Australian Becky
Michael Duggan	Mr. Newman
Amanda Wenban	Mrs. Newman
Annie Byron	Duchess
Doug Scroope	Titty Smart
Edmund Pegge	Bank Executive
Johnny Lockwood	Moses
John Boxer	Hobart Trooper
Andrew Armstrong	Sailor On Street
Steven Bowers	Albert Popjoy
Leanne Bruce	Convict Woman
Owen Buick	Official Flogger
Brandon Burke	Prison Official
Michael Butcher	Pick-Axe Con
Meg Chilcott	Mistress
Heather Christie	Nancy Smith
Conal De Huggard	Brute Of a Man
Jozef Drewniak	Jeweller
Dennis Duggan	Mary's Customer
Kara Everson	Poor Widow
Mick Gallagher	Fearsome
Dean Gould	2nd Man in Line
Euan Gray	Spotted Youth/Tom
Maureen Green	Ann Gower
Audrey Harpur	Street Seller
Darren Holt	Tomahawk
Jim Holt	Harris
Andrew Hunter	Middle Aged Man
Lenny Kovner	Samuel
Mark Marksman	Black Boss
Clive Marshall	Market Seller
Nick Meenahan	Calligan
Lizzy Milne	Sophisticated Girl
Damian Monk	Out Of Work Man
Cian O'Cleary	P & O Messenger
Tom O'Dell	Sparrefart
Barry Pearce	Suspicious Trooper
John-Bruce Plant	American
Jean-Marc Russ	Monster Master
Percy Sieff	Mr. Goldstein
Andrew Smith	Senior Servant
Andrew Soffe	Trooper No 1
Preston Struthers	1st Special
Jeremiah Tickell	Young Master
Brian Tierney	Drunken Customer
Lisa Van Der Veer	Marybelle Firkin
Maurie Broadhurst	Client #1
John Tomatalau	Client #2
Sara Jayne Whitehead	Whore #1
Natalie Dawson	Whore #2
Mondanna Todd	Whore #3
Rachael Lee	Whore #4
Kim Therese Williams	Whore #5
Elizabeth Burton	Mature Whore
Robbie Wilson	Mature Whore #2

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