Bunney Brooke (9 January 1921 Golden Square, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia – 2 April 2000, Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian actor best known for her television acting roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in soap opera Number 96 in the 1970s.
Brooke was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. As a young adult she saw marriage as a means of escape, marrying Leonard Brooke in 1946. The union produced two chi...
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Bunney Brooke (9 January 1921 Golden Square, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia – 2 April 2000, Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian actor best known for her television acting roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in soap opera Number 96 in the 1970s.
Brooke was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. As a young adult she saw marriage as a means of escape, marrying Leonard Brooke in 1946. The union produced two children but ended after four years, with Brooke reporting that they were "wrong for marriage". Brooke switched to the carefree life of a beachcomber with little money and few possessions. After becoming disillusioned with this existence Brooke sought conventional employment.
In the early 1950s Brooke managed the Prompt Corner coffee lounge in Melbourne with her then girlfriend. At that time several city coffee lounges implicitly catered specifically for gay and lesbian people at a time when few other commercial venues existed for them. Prompt...
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