David Gulpilil
- Acting
- July 1, 1953 · Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
- November 29, 2021
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Journey Home, David Gulpilil · Self
- Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee · Self
- Faraway Downs · King George
- My Name Is Gulpilil · Self, Producer
- Storm Boy · Fingerbone Bill's Dad
- Cargo · Daku
- Goldstone · Jimmy
- MESSiAH
- Another Country · Self / Narrator, Writer
- The Leftovers · Christopher Sunday
- Charlie's Country · Charlie, Writer
- Satellite Boy · Jagamarra
- Australia · King George
- Ten Canoes · The Storyteller
- Crocodile Dreaming · Burrimmilla
- The Proposition · Jacko
- Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence · Self
- Mimi · Granddad
- The Tracker · The Tracker
- Gulpilil: One Red Blood · Self
- Rabbit-Proof Fence · Moodoo
- Serenades · Rainman
- BeastMaster · Shaman
- Dead Heart · Second Man in Desert
- The Man from Snowy River · Manulpuy
- Until the End of the World · David
- Dark Age · Adjaral
- Crocodile Dundee · Neville Bell
- The Right Stuff · Aborigine
- Walkabout to Hollywood · Self
- 3 Dances Gulpilil · Dancer
- Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother · Self
- The Last Wave · Chris Lee
- Storm Boy · Fingerbone
- Mad Dog Morgan · Billy
- To Shoot a Mad Dog · Self
- The Rainbow Serpent
- Showing Melbourne to Maningrida · David Gulpilil, Director
- No Bag Limit · Self
- Walkabout · Black Boy