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   2025-03-28 12:23:24

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   Chips Rafferty

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   Broken Hill

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   Imperial Fine Accommodation

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   88 Oxide Street

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   Broken Hill is on the land of the Wilyakali people.

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   <p>Chips Rafferty MBE was one of Australia&rsquo;s favourite movie stars in the years following the Second World War. Known for portraying rugged Australian characters such as soldiers and bushmen, his films include <em>The Overlanders</em>, <em>The Rats of Tobruk</em>, <em>Mutiny on the Bounty</em> and <em>They&rsquo;re a Weird Mob</em>.</p><p>In 1971, Chips gave one of his most acclaimed performances as an outback policeman in the psychological thriller <em>Wake in Fright</em>, which was filmed on location in Broken Hill.</p><p>Few other Australian actors captured the public&rsquo;s affection in the way Chips Rafferty did in the immediate post war period.</p>

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   Chips Rafferty (1909–1971) was one of Australia’s favourite movie stars in the years following the Second World War.

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   <p>Screen actor (1909 &ndash; 1971)</p>