The Last Bastion

• Michael Blakemore as John Curtin • John Wood as Robert Menzies • Timothy West as Winston Churchill • Robert Vaughn as General Douglas MacArthur • Warren Mitchell as Franklin D. Roosevelt • Ray Barrett as General Thomas Blamey • Peter Whitford as H. V. "Bert" Evatt • Max Cullen as Eddie Ward • Jon Ewing as Billy Hughes • Nancye Hayes as Elsie Curtin • Neil Fitzpatrick as Frederick Shedden • Bill Hunter as Ben Chifley • Reg Gillam as General George C. Marshall • Tim Robertson as Admiral Ernest King • Colin McEwan as Frank Forde • John Clayton as Arthur Fadden • Vincent Ball as General Sturdee • John McTernan as Colonel Willoughby • Richard Moir as Major Carlyon • Don Crosby as Arthur Coles • Richard Meikle as General • Harold Hopkins as Harold Holt ==Production==

The series was the result of two years work for Williamson. It was his first work for television and his first effort as producer. Some of this experience may have informed Williamson's play and film Emerald City although Williamson has always denied the character of Mike McCord was based on Denis Whitburn. Kristian Williamson helped with the research and wrote a book with the same title. ==References==