Barbara Brunton

Barbara Brunton Biography

Barbara Joan Brunton Gibb (13 October 1927 - 29 June 2014), from around 1949 known as Barbara Brunton, was an Australian actress of stage and radio, active between 1940 and 1952.

History

Born a daughter of Ethel Lang and James Brunton Gibb. Barbara was brought up at Lenore Street, Five Dock, Sydney, educated at Fort Street High School and worked as a radio and stage actress associated with Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre and the Mercury Theatre under the name Barbara Brunton.

In 1950 Michael Pate and his wife, Bud Tingwell and Barbara Brunton had ideas of forming a film production company, but nothing came of it. She was engaged to Tingwell in December 1950, but nothing more was heard of that engagement either.

She married journalist Stuart Lindsay Revill on 1952. He was for four years head of the ABC's American office in New York, then head of the ABC's Europe office, London. Actress Kate Revill was a daughter.

Barbara died on 29 June 2014

Her sister, Judith Wendy Brunton Gibb (15 October 1925 - ), known as Wendy Gibb, and brother Peter Brunton Gibb ( - ) were juvenile leads with the BSA Players in the 1930s.

Selected appearances

Stage

Housemaster by Ian Hay at Minerva Theatre 1940
as Wendy in Peter Pan at Minerva Theatre 1946
Black Chiffon by Lesley Storm at the Independent Theatre 1952
The Witch by John Masefield at the Mercury Theatre

Radio

in My Favorite Wife Lux Radio Theatre starring Jack Davey prod. Harry Dearth 1940
as bigot's daughter in Deep are the Roots by James Gow and Arnaud d'Usseau 1947
as Anne Ridd in Lorna Doone serial on ABC radio 1949
regular in "Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories" series ("Aunt Jenny" was her mother, Ethel Lang)
as Sheila in An Inspector Calls radio serial
as Bernadette in Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel in Lux Radio Theatre 1949
The Queen's Husband Caltex Theatre 1949
as June in Funny Face George Gershwin 1950
Quiet Weekend
Who Lies There by Philip Johnson with Gordon Chater, Nancye Stewart in Lux Radio Theatre 1950
Rosemary by Elaine Sterne Carrington
The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
Front Page Girl by William Morum and William Dinner 1951
Night Beat Saturday night drama series
Mine Own Executioner 1952
The Adventures of Rocky Starr Sci-fi serial on 3DB
The Blue Lamp Caltex Theatre
as Sally Edwards in Blue Hills, long running ABC serial

Connection, if any, between Barbara and her fellow actress Dorothy Brunton (1890-1977) has not yet been found. Dorothy's father was John Brunton (c. 1848- 22 July 1909), born in Scotland. Barbara's grandfather was James Gibb ( -c. 1949) and married Mary Brunton ( -1952) on 4 July 1891. Barbara's father James Gibb (13 January 1897 - 28 June 1968) changed his name to James Brunton Gibb before he married Ethel Isabel Lang (1902 - November 1995) on 1 September 1923.

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