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.
Known for
- The Monkees (1966)
- Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- Skullduggery (1970)
- The Desert Rats (1953)
- Wake in Fright (1971)
- Double Trouble (1967)
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
- Bitter Springs (1950)
- Kangaroo (1952)
- The Sundowners (1960)
- Bush Christmas (1947)
- They're a Weird Mob (1966)
- The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
- Smiley (1956)
- The Rats of Tobruk (1944)
- King of the Coral Sea (1954)
- Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940)
- The Phantom Stockman (1953)
- Eureka Stockade (1949)