Chips Rafferty

Acting

Chips Rafferty

Born 1909-03-26 Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia 26 films

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.

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Filmography

26 films
Wake in Fright poster

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a…

Wake in Fright

★ 7.2 1971

Willy Willy poster

An experimental short film that features Chips Rafferty in his last on-screen role. First film out…

Willy Willy

★ 0.0 1971

Skullduggery poster

An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may…

Skullduggery

★ 4.5 1970

Kona Coast poster

Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise…

Kona Coast

★ 3.3 1968

Double Trouble poster

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewe…

Double Trouble

★ 5.0 1967

The Sundowners poster

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep dr…

The Sundowners

★ 6.7 1960