Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty

Рождение : 1909-03-26, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Смерть : 1971-05-27

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chips Rafferty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Профиль

Chips Rafferty

Фильмы

Опасное пробуждение
Jock Crawford
Австралийско-американский психологический триллер (экранизация одноимённого романа австралийского писателя Кеннета Кука, опубликованного в 1961 году), рассказывающий о погружении молодого учителя из австралийской глубинки в пучину алкоголизма и насилия в незнакомом городе.
Skullduggery
Father 'Pop' Dillingham
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.
Kona Coast
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.
Двойные неприятности
Archie Brown
Гай Ламберт, популярный певец, совершает гастрольное турне по европе. Его неотступно преследует влюбленная юная девушка, являющаяся наследницей огромного состояния. Герой влюбившись узнает, что девушке грозит смертельная опасность и спасает ее…
They're a Weird Mob
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.
Мятеж на Баунти
Michael Byrne
1789 год. Экипаж британского корабля «Баунти» под руководством жестокого капитана Блая наполнив трюмы, отчаливает от берегов Таити. До этого дня в течение шести месяцев команда корабля подвергалась физическим и моральным издевательствам со стороны капитана и его приспешников. Изнурительная работа и отсутствие пищи вынуждают моряков поднять бунт. Зачинщиком мятежа становится матрос аристократ Кристиан Флетчер. Ссадив с корабля капитана и преданных ему людей, «Баунти» взял курс обратно на Таити, именно там Флетчер и другие мятежники решили провести всю оставшуюся жизнь… Но их мечтам не суждено сбыться, дело дошло до королевского суда, и «по заслугам» получили все: Блай, Флетчер и вся команда бунтовщиков.
Самый дурацкий корабль в армии
Patterson
Бывший яхтсмен, а ныне лейтенант американской армии, поверив радужным обещаниям, отправляется командовать «Самым дурацким кораблем в армии» — грудой металлолома с командой матросов-недотеп. И уж конечно, ни капитан, ни команда не знают, что на их корабль возложена сверхсекретная миссия по спасению союзников, оказавшихся на японской территории…
Бродяги
Quinlan
Через шесть тысяч миль азарта, через целый мир приключений проходит потрясающая история настоящих людей, называемых Бродягами.
Dust in the Sun
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.
Smiley Gets a Gun
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.
Walk Into Paradise
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.
Bring Out a Briton
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.
Smiley
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.
King of the Coral Sea
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.
King of the Coral Sea
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.
Operation Malaya
Self - Commentator
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency
The Phantom Stockman
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.
Песчаные крысы
Sgt. "Blue" Smith
Вторая мировая война, Северная Африка. Танковые части немецкого генерала Роммеля, прозванного англичанами «Лис пустыни», с ожесточением атакуют позиции британской армии и прижимают её к границам Египта. Капитан «Тамми» Мак Робертс, шотландский коммандос, назначен командовать батальоном девятого австралийского союзнического полка, защищающего ключевой пункт британской обороны. Австралийцы невзлюбили нового командира. Но в пылу сражений их отношения кардинально меняются. Его отважный батальон совершает дерзкие вылазки на территорию противника, уничтожая людей и технику нацистов. В течение нескольких месяцев они сдерживают наступление немцев, чтобы дать британской армии время для подготовки контратаки. За смелость и бесстрашие немцы прозвали солдат батальона «Крысами пустыни».
Kangaroo
Trooper 'Len' Leonard
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
Bitter Springs
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.
Eureka Stockade
Peter Lalor
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
Bush Christmas
Long Bill
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Collard
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
The Overlanders
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.
The Rats of Tobruk
Milo Trent
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces.
Forty Thousand Horsemen
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.