Chips Rafferty

from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Artwork for Mutiny on the BountyImage of Chips Rafferty

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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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Timeline

2014Aged 105

1971Aged 62

  • Poster for Wake in Fright

    Jock Crawford

1970Aged 61

  • Poster for Skullduggery

    Father 'Pop' Dillingham

1968Aged 59

  • Poster for Kona Coast

    H. Charlie Lightfoot

1967Aged 58

  • Poster for Double Trouble

    Archie Brown

1966Aged 57

  • Poster for They're a Weird Mob

    Harry Kelly

1962Aged 53

  • Poster for Mutiny on the Bounty

    Michael Byrne

1960Aged 51

  • Poster for The Sundowners

    Quinlan

  • Poster for The Wackiest Ship in the Army

    Patterson

1958Aged 49

  • Poster for Smiley Gets a Gun

    Sergeant Flaxman

  • Poster for Dust in the Sun

    Producer

1957Aged 48

  • Poster for Bring Out a Briton

    Self

  • Poster for Walk Into Paradise

    Steve MacAllister

1956Aged 47

  • Poster for Smiley

    Sgt. Flaxman

1954Aged 45

  • Poster for King of the Coral Sea

    Ted King

1953Aged 44

  • Poster for The Desert Rats

    Sgt. "Blue" Smith

  • Poster for The Phantom Stockman

    The Sundowner

  • Poster for Operation Malaya

    Self - Commentator (voice)

1952Aged 43

  • Poster for Kangaroo

    Trooper 'Len' Leonard

1950Aged 41

  • Poster for Bitter Springs

    Wally King

1949Aged 40

  • Poster for Eureka Stockade

    Peter Lalor

1947Aged 38

  • Poster for The Loves of Joanna Godden

    Collard

  • Poster for Bush Christmas

    Long Bill

1946Aged 37

  • Poster for The Overlanders

    Dan McAlpine

1944Aged 35

  • Poster for The Rats of Tobruk

    Milo Trent

1940Aged 31

  • Poster for Forty Thousand Horsemen

    Jim