David Gulpilil

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.

Known For

The Leftovers

Christopher Sunday

Faraway Downs

King George

The Man from Snowy River

Manulpuy

Crocodile Dundee

Neville Bell

Cargo

Daku

Australia

King George

The Right Stuff

Aborigine

The Proposition

Jacko

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee	Self
2025	Journey Home, David Gulpilil	Self (archive footage)
2021	My Name Is Gulpilil	Self
2017	Cargo	Daku
2016	Goldstone	Jimmy
2016	MESSiAH
2015	Another Country	Self / Narrator
2013	Charlie's Country	Charlie
2012	Satellite Boy	Jagamarra
2008	Australia	King George
2006	Ten Canoes	The Storyteller
2006	Crocodile Dreaming	Burrimmilla
2005	The Proposition	Jacko
2003	Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence	Himself
2002	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Moodoo
2002	The Tracker	The Tracker
2002	Gulpilil: One Red Blood	Self
2002	Mimi	Granddad
2001	Serenades	Rainman
1996	Dead Heart	Second Man in Desert
1991	Until the End of the World	David
1987	Dark Age	Adjaral
1986	Crocodile Dundee	Neville Bell
1983	The Right Stuff	Aborigine
1980	Walkabout to Hollywood	Self
1978	Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother	Self
1978	3 Dances Gulpilil	Dancer
1977	Storm Boy	Fingerbone
1977	The Last Wave	Chris Lee
1976	Mad Dog Morgan	Billy
1976	To Shoot a Mad Dog	Self
1975	The Rainbow Serpent
1973	Showing Melbourne to Maningrida	David Gulpilil
1971	Walkabout	Black Boy

Year	TV Show	Role
2023	Faraway Downs	King George
2014	The Leftovers	Christopher Sunday
1994	The Man from Snowy River	Manulpuy