Acting · Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia · Born March 26, 1909
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.
The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
2014
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWake in Fright
1971
as Jock Crawford
MovieSkullduggery
1970
as Father 'Pop' Dillingham
MovieKona Coast
1968
as H. Charlie Lightfoot
TVSkippy the Bush Kangaroo
1968
MovieDouble Trouble
1967
as Archie Brown
TVThe Monkees
1966
as Captain
MovieThey're a Weird Mob
1966
as Harry Kelly
MovieMutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Michael Byrne
MovieThe Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
as Patterson
MovieThe Sundowners
1960
as Quinlan
MovieSmiley Gets a Gun
1958
as Sergeant Flaxman
MovieWalk Into Paradise
1957
as Steve MacAllister
MovieBring Out a Briton
1957
as Self
MovieSmiley
1956
as Sgt. Flaxman
MovieKing of the Coral Sea
1954
as Ted King
MovieOperation Malaya
1953
as Self - Commentator (voice)
MovieThe Phantom Stockman
1953
as The Sundowner
MovieThe Desert Rats
1953
as Sgt. "Blue" Smith
MovieKangaroo
1952
as Trooper 'Len' Leonard
MovieBitter Springs
1950
as Wally King
MovieEureka Stockade
1949
as Peter Lalor
MovieBush Christmas
1947
as Long Bill
MovieThe Loves of Joanna Godden
1947
as Collard
MovieThe Overlanders
1946
as Dan McAlpine
MovieThe Rats of Tobruk
1944
as Milo Trent
MovieForty Thousand Horsemen
1940
as Jim
