Father — My Brilliant Career Character Profile

About Father

Disapproves of Sybylla's ambitions, sends her to her grandmother, and incurs a debt to Mr. McSwatt that leads to Sybylla working as a governess.

Character Facts

Played by

Alan Hopgood

Appears in

My Brilliant Career (1979)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Father — Family Spouses — Mother (Julia Blake)

  Married couple co-managing the struggling rural farm.

• Father — Family Relatives — Aunt Helen (Wendy Hughes)

  Extended family connection through Sybylla's maternal line.

• Father — Social Acquaintance — Harry Beecham (Sam Neill)

  Well-to-do local connected to the family through Sybylla.

• Father — Social Acquaintance — Frank Hawdon (Robert Grubb)

  Local suitor operating within the father's community.

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• Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis)
• Harry Beecham (Sam Neill)
• Aunt Helen (Wendy Hughes)
• Frank Hawdon (Robert Grubb)
• Grandma Bossier (Aileen Britton)
• Mr. McSwatt (Max Cullen)
• Mother (Julia Blake)
• Aunt Gussie (Patricia Kennedy)
• Uncle Julius (Peter Whitford)
• Horace (David Franklin)
• Joe (Bill Charlton)
• Ethel (Zelda Smyth)