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Chips Rafferty

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Chips Rafferty

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Australian actor (1909–1971)

Film & TV

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,…

Known for

  • The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel — Self (archive footage)2014
  • Wake in Fright — Jock Crawford1971
  • Willy Willy1971
  • Skullduggery — Father 'Pop' Dillingham1970
  • Kona Coast — H. Charlie Lightfoot1968
  • Skippy the Bush Kangaroo1968
  • Double Trouble — Archie Brown1967
  • They're a Weird Mob — Harry Kelly1966
  • The Monkees — Captain1966
  • Mutiny on the Bounty — Michael Byrne1962

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Australia
Active from
1909-03-26
Active to
1971-05-27

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Listeners
14
Total plays
73

Tags

australian

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Australia
Place of birth
Broken Hill
Place of death
Sydney
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Chips Rafferty.jpg
Work location
Australia
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cause of death
myocardial infarction
writing language
English language
date of birth
1909-01-01
date of death
1971-01-01
Commons category
Chips Rafferty
manner of death
natural causes
start of work period
1939-00-00
end of work period
1971-00-00
name in native language
Chips Rafferty
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