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Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty
  • Name: Chips Rafferty
  • Birthday: 1909-03-26
  • Also known as: John William Pilbean Goffage
  • Place of birth: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
  • Popularity: 3.697
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.

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Title Release date
Wake in Fright   as  Jock Crawford 1971-07-21
Skullduggery   as  Father 'Pop' Dillingham 1970-03-06
Kona Coast   as  H. Charlie Lightfoot 1968-05-01
Double Trouble   as  Archie Brown 1967-04-05
They're a Weird Mob   as  Harry Kelly 1966-08-18
Mutiny on the Bounty   as  Michael Byrne 1962-11-08
The Wackiest Ship in the Army   as  Patterson 1960-12-29
The Sundowners   as  Quinlan 1960-12-08
Smiley Gets a Gun   as  Sergeant Flaxman 1958-05-01
Walk Into Paradise   as  Steve MacAllister 1957-09-08
Bring Out a Briton   as  Self 1957-01-01
Smiley   as  Sgt. Flaxman 1956-06-28
King of the Coral Sea   as  Ted King 1954-08-12
Operation Malaya   as  Self - Commentator (voice) 1953-09-17
The Phantom Stockman   as  The Sundowner 1953-06-19
The Desert Rats   as  Sgt. "Blue" Smith 1953-05-20
Kangaroo   as  Trooper 'Len' Leonard 1952-05-16
Bitter Springs   as  Wally King 1950-07-05
Eureka Stockade   as  Peter Lalor 1949-01-26
Bush Christmas   as  Long Bill 1947-07-28
The Loves of Joanna Godden   as  Collard 1947-06-08
The Overlanders   as  Dan McAlpine 1946-09-27
The Rats of Tobruk   as  Milo Trent 1944-06-30
40,000 Horsemen   as  Jim 1940-12-26