Chips Rafferty
Birthday
1909/03/26
Day of death
1971/05/27 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Also know as
John William Pilbean Goffage
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.
Acting
(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) 40,000 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
(1968) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
as Pop Miller
(1968) Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
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