David Gulpilil
View on IMDb ↗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
Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee
The Leftovers
The Right Stuff
Walkabout
Storm Boy
The Man from Snowy River
Charlie's Country
The Proposition
To Shoot a Mad Dog
Rabbit-Proof FenceFilmography (40)
- 2025
Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile DundeeSelf - 2025
Journey Home, David GulpililSelf (archive footage) - 2023
Faraway DownsKing George - 2021
My Name Is GulpililSelf - 2019
Storm BoyFingerbone Bill's Dad - 2017
CargoDaku - 2016
GoldstoneJimmy - 2016
MESSiAH - 2015
Another CountrySelf / Narrator - 2014
The LeftoversChristopher Sunday - 2013
Charlie's CountryCharlie - 2012
Satellite BoyJagamarra - 2008
AustraliaKing George - 2006
Ten CanoesThe Storyteller - 2006
Crocodile DreamingBurrimmilla - 2005
The PropositionJacko - 2003Following the Rabbit-Proof FenceHimself
- 2002
Rabbit-Proof FenceMoodoo - 2002
Gulpilil: One Red BloodSelf - 2002
The TrackerThe Tracker - 2002
MimiGranddad - 2001
SerenadesRainman - 1999
BeastMasterShaman - 1996
Dead HeartSecond Man in Desert - 1994
The Man from Snowy RiverManulpuy - 1991
Until the End of the WorldDavid - 1987
Dark AgeAdjaral - 1986
Crocodile DundeeNeville Bell - 1983
The Right StuffAborigine - 1980
Walkabout to HollywoodSelf - 1978
Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My MotherSelf - 19783 Dances GulpililDancer
- 1977
Storm BoyFingerbone - 1977
The Last WaveChris Lee - 1976
To Shoot a Mad DogSelf - 1976
Mad Dog MorganBilly - 1975The Rainbow Serpent
- 1973Showing Melbourne to ManingridaDavid Gulpilil
- 1973No Bag LimitSelf - Dancer
- 1971
WalkaboutBlack Boy