Barbara Brunton


Barbara Joan Brunton Gibb, from around 1949 professionally known as Barbara Brunton, was an Australian actress of stage and radio, active between 1940 and 1952.

History

Gibb was born in 1927, the daughter of actress Ethel Lang and theatre impresario, teacher and actor James Brunton Gibb. Barbara was brought up at Lenore Street, Five Dock, Sydney, educated at Fort Street High School, before starting an entertainment career as a radio and stage actress, associated with Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre and the Mercury Theatre professionally under the name Barbara Brunton.
In 1950 Michael Pate and his wife, Bud Tingwell and 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.
Gibb left Australia in October 1952 and married journalist Stuart Lindsay Revill on Long Island, New York in December 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.
Brunton died on 29 June 2014, aged 86.
Her sister, Judith Wendy Brunton Gibb, known as Wendy Gibb, and brother Peter Brunton Gibb were juvenile leads with the BSA Players in the 1930s.

Selected appearances

;Stage
;Radio
Connection, if any, between Barbara and her fellow actress Dorothy Brunton has not yet been found.
Dorothy's father was John Brunton, born in Scotland.
Barbara's grandfather was James Gibb and married Mary Brunton on 4 July 1891.
Barbara's father James Gibb changed his name to James Brunton Gibb before he married Ethel Isabel Lang on 1 September 1923.