Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty

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.

  • Title: Chips Rafferty
  • Popularity: 3.006
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-03-26
  • Place of Birth: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Also Known As: John William Pilbean Goffage
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Chips Rafferty Movies

  • 1962
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    6.997 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    They're a Weird Mob

    They're a Weird Mob

    5.8 1966 HD

    Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday...

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  • 1971
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    Wake in Fright

    Wake in Fright

    7.322 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Operation Malaya

    Operation Malaya

    1 1953 HD

    Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

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  • 1960
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    The Wackiest Ship in the Army

    The Wackiest Ship in the Army

    6 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Walk Into Paradise

    Walk Into Paradise

    6.2 1957 HD

    Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in...

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  • 1949
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    Eureka Stockade

    Eureka Stockade

    5.591 1949 HD

    Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.

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  • 1946
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    The Overlanders

    The Overlanders

    5.7 1946 HD

    It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...

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  • 1944
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    The Rats of Tobruk

    The Rats of Tobruk

    5.6 1944 HD

    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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  • 1940
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    40,000 Horsemen

    40,000 Horsemen

    5.6 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Bush Christmas

    Bush Christmas

    5.7 1947 HD

    In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.

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  • 1958
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    Smiley Gets a Gun

    Smiley Gets a Gun

    7 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Smiley

    Smiley

    6.7 1956 HD

    Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father...

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  • 1968
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    Kona Coast

    Kona Coast

    3.2 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Bitter Springs

    Bitter Springs

    6.4 1950 HD

    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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  • 1960
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    The Sundowners

    The Sundowners

    6.7 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    The Desert Rats

    The Desert Rats

    6.2 1953 HD

    In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important...

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  • 1970
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    Skullduggery

    Skullduggery

    4.4 1970 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    King of the Coral Sea

    King of the Coral Sea

    7.5 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    The Loves of Joanna Godden

    The Loves of Joanna Godden

    7 1947 HD

    Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

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  • 1953
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    The Phantom Stockman

    The Phantom Stockman

    4.8 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Double Trouble

    Double Trouble

    5 1967 HD

    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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  • 1952
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    Kangaroo

    Kangaroo

    5.2 1952 HD

    In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals...

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  • 1957
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    Bring Out a Briton

    Bring Out a Briton

    1 1957 HD

    ‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its plan to form and assist a ‘Bring...

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  • 1954
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    King of the Coral Sea

    King of the Coral Sea

    7.5 1954 HD

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  • 1958
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    Dust in the Sun

    Dust in the Sun

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1968
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    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    5.5 1968 HD

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various...

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  • 1968
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    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

    5.5 1968 HD

    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various...

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