Died 29 June 2014 | ||
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.
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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.
Bunton 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.
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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.