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David Gulpilil
Born
1 July 1953
Died
29 November 2021
Place
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Acting

David Gulpilil

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.

As actor

Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee

2025 · Self

Journey Home, David Gulpilil

2025 · Self (archive footage)

My Name Is Gulpilil

2021 · Self

Storm Boy

2019 · Fingerbone Bill's Dad

Cargo

2017 · Daku

Goldstone

2016 · Jimmy

MESSiAH

2016

Another Country

2015 · Self / Narrator

Charlie's Country

2013 · Charlie

Satellite Boy

2012 · Jagamarra

Australia

2008 · King George

Ten Canoes

2006 · The Storyteller

Crocodile Dreaming

2006 · Burrimmilla

The Proposition

2005 · Jacko

Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence

2003 · Himself

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002 · Moodoo

The Tracker

2002 · The Tracker

Gulpilil: One Red Blood

2002 · Self

Mimi

2002 · Granddad

Serenades

2001 · Rainman

Dead Heart

1996 · Second Man in Desert

Until the End of the World

1991 · David

Dark Age

1987 · Adjaral

Crocodile Dundee

1986 · Neville Bell

The Right Stuff

1983 · Aborigine

Walkabout to Hollywood

1980 · Self

Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother

1978 · Self

3 Dances Gulpilil

1978 · Dancer

Storm Boy

1977 · Fingerbone

The Last Wave

1977 · Chris Lee

As director

Showing Melbourne to Maningrida

1973 · Director