
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Born
1953-07-01
Place of Birth
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
David Gulpilil
Biography
David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM, known professionally as David Gulpilil and posthumously for cultural reasons as David Dalaithngu for three days, was an Aboriginal Australian (Yolŋu) actor and dancer, known for the films Walkabout, Storm Boy, Rabbit-Proof Fence, and The Tracker.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Journey Home, David Gulpilil as Self (archive footage)
2025Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee as Self
2023Faraway Downs as King George
2021My Name Is Gulpilil as Self
2017Cargo as Daku
2016Goldstone as Jimmy
2016MESSiAH
2015Another Country as Self / Narrator
2014The Leftovers as Christopher Sunday
2013Charlie's Country as Charlie
2012Satellite Boy as Jagamarra
2008Australia as King George
2006Ten Canoes as The Storyteller
2006Crocodile Dreaming as Burrimmilla
2005The Proposition as Jacko
2003Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself
2002Mimi as Granddad
2002The Tracker as The Tracker
2002Gulpilil: One Red Blood as Self
2002Rabbit-Proof Fence as Moodoo
2001Serenades as Rainman
1999BeastMaster as Shaman
1996Dead Heart as Second Man in Desert
1994The Man from Snowy River as Manulpuy
1991Until the End of the World as David
1987Dark Age as Adjaral
1986Crocodile Dundee as Neville Bell
1983The Right Stuff as Aborigine
1980Walkabout to Hollywood as Self
19783 Dances Gulpilil as Dancer
1978Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother as Self
1977The Last Wave as Chris Lee
1977Storm Boy as Fingerbone
1976Mad Dog Morgan as Billy
1976To Shoot a Mad Dog as Self
1975The Rainbow Serpent
1973Showing Melbourne to Maningrida as David Gulpilil
1971Walkabout as Black Boy









