Chips Rafferty
Nacimiento : 1909-03-26, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Muerte : 1971-05-27
Historia
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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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Jock Crawford
John Grant, un excelente profesor que llega a una ciudad de mineros situada en un inhóspito desierto, decide pasar allí la noche antes de coger un avión para Sydney. Pero pasan cinco noches y parece que Grant se está acercando poco a poco a la autodestrucción. Cuando los efectos del alcohol empiezan a distorsionar su percepción de las cosas, surgirá un aspecto de su personalidad muy poco agradable, que se traduce en un gran desprecio por sí mismo.
Father 'Pop' Dillingham
Una expedición con el duro Douglas Temple encuentra en Nueva Guinea una raza de pequeños hombres mono llamados "los Tropi".
Charlie Lightfoot
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 of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
Archie Brown
El cantante Guy Lambert (Elvis Presley) está de gira con su espectáculo y, cuando viaja a Bruselas, dos hermosas mujeres lo siguen en secreto. Una de ellas (Annette Day) es una rica heredera, y la otra (Ivonne Romain), una mujer enigmática y seductora. Guy se verá atrapado en un torbellino de intrigas y misterios que incluyen la desaparición de unas joyas y el enfrentamiento con unos detectives.
Harry Kelly
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.
Michael Byrne
En 1787, el Bounty zarpa del puerto de Portsmouth con destino a Tahití para cargar el fruto del árbol del pan. El capitán Bligh, que desea llegar cuanto antes a la isla, impone una férrea disciplina a bordo. Cuando llegan, la tripulación se encuentra con un auténtico paraíso que nada tiene que ver con el infierno vivido durante el viaje.
Patterson
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 don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
Quinlan
Australia, 1920. Un matrimonio (Robert Mitchum y Deborah Kerr) y su hijo viven felices viajando por Australia y realizando diversos trabajos para sobrevivir. Llega, sin embargo, un momento en que la madre, apoyada por su hijo y movida por el instinto de conservación, plantea la necesidad de abandonar la vida errante que siempre han llevado y comprar una granja para establecerse definitivamente en algún lugar. Ahora bien, alcanzar ese sueño implicará muchos sacrificios.
Producer
A Northern Territory policeman, is given the job of taking an Aboriginal prisoner Emu Foot, to Alice Springs to be tried for a tribal killing. Bayard is wounded during a revenge attack by tribesmen, and Emu Foot helps him get to a remote cattle station. But there Bayard gets involved in a domestic crisis involving Julie Kirkbride, the neurotic, bored wife of the station owner, and is tempted by the head stockman's daughter Chris Palady.
Sergeant Flaxman
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 new gun from Sergeant Flaxman.
Steve MacAllister
Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-Eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief.
Self
‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its plan to form and assist a ‘Bring Out a Briton’ Committee in each district. It featured popular Australian actor Chips Rafferty as the spokesman for the campaign. Aimed at the Australian public rather than the prospective immigrants it was designed to allay a perceived anxiety amongst the public about non-British European migration.
Sgt. Flaxman
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away from home. Much to the exasperation of his overworked wife, Ma Greevins, Bill is also very fond of the drink. Smiley is determined to buy himself a push bike and so he takes on odd jobs in an effort to save up enough money. But Smiley always seems to get caught up in some sort of misadventure. Smiley is a classic Australian film that will delight audiences of all ages.
Ted King
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 smuggling ring and involves one of his men, Yusep. He is helped by Peter Merriman, the playboy owner of King's company who romances King's daughter Rusty. Yusep kidnaps Rusty but Merriman and King rescue her.
Writer
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 smuggling ring and involves one of his men, Yusep. He is helped by Peter Merriman, the playboy owner of King's company who romances King's daughter Rusty. Yusep kidnaps Rusty but Merriman and King rescue her.
Self - Commentator
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency
The Sundowner
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 a legendary local bushman called the Sundowner, who was one of her father's best friends.
Sgt. "Blue" Smith
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un pequeño grupo de hombres valientes y obstinados consiguieron frenar el avance del mariscal Rommel en el Norte de África. En 1941, Rommel había conseguido que los ingleses iniciaran la retirada. El único obstáculo entre él y el Canal de Suez era la fortaleza de Tobruk, defendida por un pequeño destacamento australiano. El capitán McRoberts (Richard Burton), brillante estratega, está al mando de la operación. Conoce su inferioridad numérica y sabe que sólo cuenta con el arrojo de sus hombres y con su propio ingenio para derrotar al enemigo.
Trooper 'Len' Leonard
La historia de dos granujas (Lawford y Boone) que planean robar en el rancho de un irlandés borrachín. Pero uno de ellos queda cautivado por la belleza de la hija de la víctima (O'Hara).
Wally King
A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.
Peter Lalor
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
Long Bill
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
Collard
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Dan McAlpine
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.
Milo Trent
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
Jim
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 heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.
