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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 26, 1909
Died
May 27, 1971
Place of Birth
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Also Known As
- John William Pilbean Goffage
Chips Rafferty
0.5 Popularity
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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0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
2014
7.3
Jock Crawford
Wake in Fright
1971
4.5
Father 'Pop' Dillingham
Skullduggery
1970
2.9
H. Charlie Lightfoot
Kona Coast
1968
5.6
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
1968
4.9
Archie Brown
Double Trouble
1967
5.9
Harry Kelly
They're a Weird Mob
1966
7.0
Michael Byrne
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
5.9
Patterson
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
6.7
Quinlan
The Sundowners
1960
Credits
🎬
The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
Wake in Fright
as Jock Crawford
1971
7.3
Skullduggery
as Father 'Pop' Dillingham
1970
4.5
Kona Coast
as H. Charlie Lightfoot
1968
2.9
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
1968
5.6
Double Trouble
as Archie Brown
1967
4.9
They're a Weird Mob
as Harry Kelly
1966
5.9
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Michael Byrne
1962
7.0
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Patterson
1960
5.9
The Sundowners
as Quinlan
1960
6.7
Smiley Gets a Gun
as Sergeant Flaxman
1958
7.0
Walk Into Paradise
as Steve MacAllister
1957
6.2
Bring Out a Briton
as Self
1957
0.0
Smiley
as Sgt. Flaxman
1956
6.7
King of the Coral Sea
as Ted King
1954
7.5
Operation Malaya
as Self - Commentator (voice)
1953
0.0
The Phantom Stockman
as The Sundowner
1953
4.8
The Desert Rats
as Sgt. "Blue" Smith
1953
6.3
Kangaroo
as Trooper 'Len' Leonard
1952
5.2
Bitter Springs
as Wally King
1950
6.4
Eureka Stockade
as Peter Lalor
1949
5.6
Bush Christmas
as Long Bill
1947
5.5
The Loves of Joanna Godden
as Collard
1947
7.0
The Overlanders
as Dan McAlpine
1946
5.8
The Rats of Tobruk
as Milo Trent
1944
5.7
40,000 Horsemen
as Jim
1940
5.6