David Gulpilil

AKA: David Gumpilil, David Dalaithngu, David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM
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1953-07-01

Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia

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.

Crew Roles

Charlie's Country
Writer
My Name Is Gulpilil
Producer
Showing Melbourne to Maningrida
Director
Showing Melbourne to Maningrida
Producer
Another Country
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {38}

King George

2008-11-18 6.594

Australia

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Drama

Moodoo

2002-02-04 6.97

Rabbit-Proof Fence

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

Neville Bell

1986-09-26 6.418

Crocodile Dundee

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee neg ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

The Tracker

2002-08-08 6.9

The Tracker

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indi ...
Genre :Drama, History

The Storyteller

2006-06-29 6.8

Ten Canoes

A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Black Boy

1971-07-01 7.303

Walkabout

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Fingerbone

1977-07-28 6.9

Storm Boy

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphan ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Billy

1976-07-09 6

Mad Dog Morgan

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Western

Chris Lee

1977-12-15 6.7

The Last Wave

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror

Rainman

2001-05-31 5

Serenades

Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jagamarra

2012-09-08 5.9

Satellite Boy

When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Family

Self

1976-01-01 0

To Shoot a Mad Dog

A documentary about the making of the Australian feature Mad Dog Morgan (1976). ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2003-04-15 8

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof Fence. The film sees a cast of 100's whittled down to the eventual three girls an ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1978-01-01 0

Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother

Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal people and their land (including the Dreaming, sacred places), this film was inspired by Silas Roberts’ submission to the 1976 Australian Government inqui ...
Genre :Documentary

Jacko

2005-10-06 7

The Proposition

In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted f ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western

Charlie

2013-10-12 7.1

Charlie's Country

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generall ...
Genre :Drama

Adjaral

1987-05-21 5.6

Dark Age

In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace.. ...
Genre :Adventure, Horror

David Gulpilil

1973-01-01 0

Showing Melbourne to Maningrida

In 1973, fresh from his performance in Walkabout, a film that brought outback landscapes to urban audiences, Gulpilil returned the favour by paying a visit to Melbourne with camera in hand, shooting a ...
Genre :Documentary

1975-07-13 0

The Rainbow Serpent

A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions ...
Genre :Animation

Second Man in Desert

1996-09-08 6

Dead Heart

Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Drama

Self / Narrator

2015-07-29 5.8

Another Country

In this documentary companion to CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, Australian actor David Gulpilil tells the story of when his people's way of life was derailed by ours. ...
Genre :Documentary, Crime, History

Dancer

1978-06-06 0

3 Dances Gulpilil

David Gulpilil performs three Aboriginal dances, Emu, Kangaroo and Fish. The first two are solo performances by Gulpilil and are closer to mime than dance. The third is a group dance with some of the ...
Genre :Documentary

David

1991-09-12 6.758

Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive fr ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, Adventure

Jimmy

2016-07-07 5.951

Goldstone

Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths an intricate web of crime, corruption, human traff ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Burrimmilla

2006-01-01 0

Crocodile Dreaming

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. O ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Self

2002-04-05 6.6

Gulpilil: One Red Blood

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil. ...
Genre :Documentary

2016-06-01 0

MESSiAH

In a playful collision of cultures, a hapless Irishman and his Parisian girlfriend get more than they bargained for when they encounter a particularly mischievous stranger in the spectacular Australia ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Aborigine

1983-10-20 7.43

The Right Stuff

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings forth momentous challenges. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Adventure

Daku

2017-10-06 6.403

Cargo

After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Horror

Self

2021-05-27 6.2

My Name Is Gulpilil

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life. ...
Genre :Documentary

Granddad

2002-11-01 5.5

Mimi

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1980-02-11 0

Walkabout to Hollywood

Produced and directed this documentary for BBC in the 1980’s, about David Gulpilil, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal actor, dancer and musician. The film shows how Gulpilil is always working to bridge ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Self

2025-03-27 0

Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee

Nearly 40 years on, Crocodile Dundee remains Australia’s biggest film—what made it a cultural icon, and why does it still mean so much today? ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2025-10-30 0

Journey Home, David Gulpilil

A powerful record of grief, community and ceremony in which the renowned Indigenous actor is laid to rest on his Homeland of Gupulul in Arnhem Land, NT. ...
Genre :Documentary

King George

2023-11-26 6.9

Faraway Downs

The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Western

Manulpuy

1994-09-23 6.8

The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series wa ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Christopher Sunday

2014-06-29 7.643

The Leftovers

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Shaman

1999-10-09 6.4

BeastMaster

BeastMaster chronicles the adventures of Dar, the last surviving male of the storied Sula tribe, who is blessed with the ability to communicate telepathically with the animals of his ancient world. Al ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy