Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty

Born: March 26, 1909
Died: May 27, 1971
in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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 for Chips Rafferty...

Wake in Fright
Title: Wake in Fright
Character: Jock Crawford
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
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Skullduggery
Title: Skullduggery
Character: Father 'Pop' Dillingham
Released: March 6, 1970
Type: Movie
An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
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Kona Coast
Title: Kona Coast
Character: H. Charlie Lightfoot
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Pop Miller
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Archie Brown
Released: April 5, 1967
Type: Movie
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
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They're a Weird Mob
Title: They're a Weird Mob
Character: Harry Kelly
Released: August 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Character: Michael Byrne
Released: November 8, 1962
Type: Movie
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Title: The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Character: Patterson
Released: December 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
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The Sundowners
Title: The Sundowners
Character: Quinlan
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
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Smiley Gets a Gun
Title: Smiley Gets a Gun
Character: Sergeant Flaxman
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others - all so he can earn a new gun from Sergeant Flaxman.
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Walk Into Paradise
Title: Walk Into Paradise
Character: Steve MacAllister
Released: September 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief.
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Bring Out a Briton
Title: Bring Out a Briton
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its plan to form and assist a ‘Bring Out a Briton’ Committee in each district. It featured popular Australian actor Chips Rafferty as the spokesman for the campaign. Aimed at the Australian public rather than the prospective immigrants it was designed to allay a perceived anxiety amongst the public about non-British European migration.
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Smiley
Title: Smiley
Character: Sgt. Flaxman
Released: June 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away from home. Much to the exasperation of his overworked wife, Ma Greevins, Bill is also very fond of the drink. Smiley is determined to buy himself a push bike and so he takes on odd jobs in an effort to save up enough money. But Smiley always seems to get caught up in some sort of misadventure. Smiley is a classic Australian film that will delight audiences of all ages.
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King of the Coral Sea
Title: King of the Coral Sea
Character: Ted King
Released: August 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He discovers the murder is connected to a people smuggling ring and involves one of his men, Yusep. He is helped by Peter Merriman, the playboy owner of King's company who romances King's daughter Rusty. Yusep kidnaps Rusty but Merriman and King rescue her.
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Operation Malaya
Title: Operation Malaya
Character: Self - Commentator (voice)
Released: September 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency
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The Phantom Stockman
Title: The Phantom Stockman
Character: The Sundowner
Released: June 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Kim Marsden inherits a cattle station near Alice Springs after the death of her father. Kim becomes convinced her father was murdered. She sends for a legendary local bushman called the Sundowner, who was one of her father's best friends.
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The Desert Rats
Title: The Desert Rats
Character: Sgt. "Blue" Smith
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
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Kangaroo
Title: Kangaroo
Character: Trooper 'Len' Leonard
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
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Bitter Springs
Title: Bitter Springs
Character: Wally King
Released: July 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.
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Eureka Stockade
Title: Eureka Stockade
Character: Peter Lalor
Released: January 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
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Bush Christmas
Title: Bush Christmas
Character: Long Bill
Released: July 28, 1947
Type: Movie
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
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The Loves of Joanna Godden
Title: The Loves of Joanna Godden
Character: Collard
Released: June 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
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The Overlanders
Title: The Overlanders
Character: Dan McAlpine
Released: September 27, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.
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The Rats of Tobruk
Title: The Rats of Tobruk
Character: Milo Trent
Released: June 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
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40,000 Horsemen
Title: 40,000 Horsemen
Character: Jim
Released: December 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.