Name
Chips Rafferty
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-03-26
Deathday
1971-05-27 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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
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The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fr...
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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stran...
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In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off B...
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Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Nav...
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In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are...
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An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment h...
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In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive gover...
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It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are e...
- 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty as Michael Byrne
- 1966 They're a Weird Mob as Harry Kelly
- 1971 Wake in Fright as Jock Crawford
- 1953 Operation Malaya as Self - Commentator (voice)
- 1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army as Patterson
- 1957 Walk Into Paradise as Steve MacAllister
- 1949 Eureka Stockade as Peter Lalor
- 1946 The Overlanders as Dan McAlpine
- 1944 The Rats of Tobruk as Milo Trent
- 1940 Forty Thousand Horsemen as Jim
- 1947 Bush Christmas as Long Bill
- 1958 Smiley Gets a Gun as Sergeant Flaxman
- 1956 Smiley as Sgt. Flaxman
- 1968 Kona Coast as H. Charlie Lightfoot
- 1950 Bitter Springs as Wally King
- 1960 The Sundowners as Quinlan
- 1953 The Desert Rats as Sgt. "Blue" Smith
- 1970 Skullduggery as Father 'Pop' Dillingham
- 1954 King of the Coral Sea as Ted King
- 1947 The Loves of Joanna Godden as Collard
- 1953 The Phantom Stockman as The Sundowner
- 1967 Double Trouble as Archie Brown
- 1952 Kangaroo as Trooper 'Len' Leonard
- 1957 Bring Out a Briton as Self
- 2014 The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel as Self (archive footage)
- 1971 Willy Willy
- 1968 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ( 1 episode )
- 1966 The Monkees ( 1 episode ) as Captain
