Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 26, 1909
Died
May 27, 1971
Place of Birth
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Credits
28 titles
Chips Rafferty
Biography
Chips Rafferty MBE (26 March 1909 – 27 May 1971) was an iconic Australian actor. Called "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Rafferty's career stretched from the 1940s until his death in 1971, and during this time he performed regularly in major Australian feature films as well as appearing in British and American productions. He appeared in commercials in Britain during the late 1950s, encouraging British emigration to Australia.
Known For
Filmography
The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
Self (archive footage)
Wake in Fright
Jock Crawford
Skullduggery
Father 'Pop' Dillingham
Kona Coast
H. Charlie Lightfoot
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Double Trouble
Archie Brown
The Monkees
Captain
They're a Weird Mob
Harry Kelly
Mutiny on the Bounty
Michael Byrne
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Patterson
The Sundowners
Quinlan
Dust in the Sun
Producer
Smiley Gets a Gun
Sergeant Flaxman
Walk Into Paradise
Steve MacAllister
Bring Out a Briton
Self
Smiley
Sgt. Flaxman
King of the Coral Sea
Ted King
Operation Malaya
Self - Commentator (voice)
The Phantom Stockman
The Sundowner
The Desert Rats
Sgt. "Blue" Smith
Kangaroo
Trooper 'Len' Leonard
Bitter Springs
Wally King
Eureka Stockade
Peter Lalor
Bush Christmas
Long Bill
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Collard
The Overlanders
Dan McAlpine
The Rats of Tobruk
Milo Trent
Forty Thousand Horsemen
Jim