David Gulpilil
Acting • Born 1953-07-01 – Died 2021-11-29
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
39 credits
Australia
Movie • 2008
King George
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Movie • 2002
Moodoo
Crocodile Dundee
Movie • 1986
Neville Bell
The Tracker
Movie • 2002
The Tracker
Ten Canoes
Movie • 2006
The Storyteller
Walkabout
Movie • 1971
Black Boy
Storm Boy
Movie • 1977
Fingerbone
Mad Dog Morgan
Movie • 1976
Billy
The Last Wave
Movie • 1977
Chris Lee
Serenades
Movie • 2001
Rainman
Satellite Boy
Movie • 2012
Jagamarra
To Shoot a Mad Dog
Movie • 1976
Self
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Movie • 2003
Himself
Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother
Movie • 1978
Self
The Proposition
Movie • 2005
Jacko
Charlie's Country
Movie • 2013
Charlie
Dark Age
Movie • 1987
Adjaral
Showing Melbourne to Maningrida
Movie • 1973
David Gulpilil
The Rainbow Serpent
Movie • 1975
Dead Heart
Movie • 1996
Second Man in Desert
Another Country
Movie • 2015
Self / Narrator
3 Dances Gulpilil
Movie • 1978
Dancer
Until the End of the World
Movie • 1991
David
Goldstone
Movie • 2016
Jimmy
Crocodile Dreaming
Movie • 2006
Burrimmilla
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
Movie • 2002
Self
MESSiAH
Movie • 2016
The Right Stuff
Movie • 1983
Aborigine
Cargo
Movie • 2017
Daku
My Name Is Gulpilil
Movie • 2021
Self
Mimi
Movie • 2002
Granddad
Walkabout to Hollywood
Movie • 1980
Self
Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee
Movie • 2025
Self
Journey Home, David Gulpilil
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
No Bag Limit
Movie • 1973
Self - Dancer
Faraway Downs
TV • 2023
King George
The Man from Snowy River
TV • 1994
Manulpuy
The Leftovers
TV • 2014
Christopher Sunday
BeastMaster
TV • 1999
Shaman