Brunton 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[1] 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,[2] but nothing came of it. She was engaged to Tingwell in December 1950,[3] but nothing more was heard of that engagement either.
Brunton left Australia in October 1952[4] and married journalist Stuart Lindsay Revill (1929–2019[5])on Long Island, New York in December 1952.[6] 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.[7]
Her sister, Judith Wendy Brunton Gibb (15 October 1925 – ), known as Wendy Gibb, and brother Peter Brunton Gibb (1924–2011) were juvenile leads with the BSA Players in the 1930s.
