Chips Rafferty
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 26, 1909, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Died
- May 27, 1971
- Movies
- 28
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2014 | The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel | Self (archive footage) |
| 1971 | Wake in Fright | Jock Crawford |
| 1971 | Willy Willy | |
| 1970 | Skullduggery | Father 'Pop' Dillingham |
| 1968 | Kona Coast | H. Charlie Lightfoot |
| 1967 | Double Trouble | Archie Brown |
| 1966 | They're a Weird Mob | Harry Kelly |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Michael Byrne |
| 1960 | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Patterson |
| 1960 | The Sundowners | Quinlan |
| 1958 | Smiley Gets a Gun | Sergeant Flaxman |
| 1957 | Walk Into Paradise | Steve MacAllister |
| 1957 | Bring Out a Briton | Self |
| 1956 | Smiley | Sgt. Flaxman |
| 1954 | King of the Coral Sea | Ted King |
| 1953 | Operation Malaya | Self - Commentator (voice) |
| 1953 | The Phantom Stockman | The Sundowner |
| 1953 | The Desert Rats | Sgt. "Blue" Smith |
| 1952 | Kangaroo | Trooper 'Len' Leonard |
| 1950 | Bitter Springs | Wally King |
| 1949 | Eureka Stockade | Peter Lalor |
| 1947 | Bush Christmas | Long Bill |
| 1947 | The Loves of Joanna Godden | Collard |
| 1946 | The Overlanders | Dan McAlpine |
| 1944 | The Rats of Tobruk | Milo Trent |
| 1940 | Forty Thousand Horsemen | Jim |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1958 | Dust in the Sun | Producer |
| 1954 | King of the Coral Sea | Writer |
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