Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty MBE was an iconic Australian actor. Called the living symbol of the typical Australian, Raffertys 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.

He was born John William Pilbean Goffage in Broken Hill, New South Wales to John Goffage, an Englishborn stock agent, and Australianborn Violet Maude Joyce. Gaining the nickname Chips as a school boy, Rafferty studied at Parramatta Commercial High School before working in a variety of jobs, including opal miner, sheep shearer, drover, airman and pearl diver before making his film debut in Ants in His Pants in 1938. At that time, he was managing a wine cellar in Bond Street, Sydney.

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