David Gulpilil

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1953-07-01

Place of Birth

Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
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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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Acting History

2025
Journey Home, David Gulpilil as Self (archive footage)
2025
Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee as Self
2023
Faraway Downs as King George
2021
My Name Is Gulpilil as Self
2017
Cargo as Daku
2016
Goldstone as Jimmy
2016
MESSiAH
2015
Another Country as Self / Narrator
2014
The Leftovers as Christopher Sunday
2013
Charlie's Country as Charlie
2012
Satellite Boy as Jagamarra
2008
Australia as King George
2006
Ten Canoes as The Storyteller
2006
Crocodile Dreaming as Burrimmilla
2005
The Proposition as Jacko
2003
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself
2002
Mimi as Granddad
2002
The Tracker as The Tracker
2002
Gulpilil: One Red Blood as Self
2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence as Moodoo
2001
Serenades as Rainman
1999
BeastMaster as Shaman
1996
Dead Heart as Second Man in Desert
1994
The Man from Snowy River as Manulpuy
1991
Until the End of the World as David
1987
Dark Age as Adjaral
1986
Crocodile Dundee as Neville Bell
1983
The Right Stuff as Aborigine
1980
Walkabout to Hollywood as Self
1978
3 Dances Gulpilil as Dancer
1978
Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother as Self
1977
The Last Wave as Chris Lee
1977
Storm Boy as Fingerbone
1976
Mad Dog Morgan as Billy
1976
To Shoot a Mad Dog as Self
1975
The Rainbow Serpent
1973
Showing Melbourne to Maningrida as David Gulpilil
1971
Walkabout as Black Boy