David Gulpilil
Born: 1953-07-01 in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Died: 2021-11-29
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee as Self
- Journey Home, David Gulpilil as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Faraway Downs as King George
2021
- My Name Is Gulpilil as Self
2017
- Cargo as Daku
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
- Crocodile Dreaming as Burrimmilla
2005
- The Proposition as Jacko
2003
- Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence as Himself
2002
- The Tracker as The Tracker
- Rabbit-Proof Fence as Moodoo
- Mimi as Granddad
- Gulpilil: One Red Blood as Self
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
- Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother as Self
1977
- Storm Boy as Fingerbone
- The Last Wave as Chris Lee
1976
- Mad Dog Morgan as Billy
- To Shoot a Mad Dog as Self
1975
1973
- Showing Melbourne to Maningrida as David Gulpilil
1971
- Walkabout as Black Boy