Chips Rafferty
Birthday: 1909-03-26
Place of Birth: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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.
Movies
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Capta...
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They're a Weird Mob
An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find...
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Wake in Fright
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a b...
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a rea...
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Walk Into Paradise
Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investiga...
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Eureka Stockade
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government....
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The Overlanders
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating ...
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The Rats of Tobruk
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk ag...
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40,000 Horsemen
Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regimen...
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Bush Christmas
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains....
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Smiley Gets a Gun
The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible ...
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Smiley
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murr...
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Kona Coast
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise....
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Bitter Springs
A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australia...
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The Sundowners
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep dro...
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The Desert Rats
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British for...
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Skullduggery
An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may ...
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King of the Coral Sea
A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He disco...
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The Phantom Stockman
Kim Marsden inherits a cattle station near Alice Springs after the death of her father. Kim becomes ...
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Double Trouble
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel...
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Kangaroo
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swi...
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Bring Out a Briton
‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its pl...
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The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel
The Big Picture details the careers Charles and Elsa Chauvel – known as Australia’s most enduring an...
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