David Gulpilil
Acting
40
Acting Credits
1
Directed
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
Filmography
Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee
2025
as Self
Journey Home, David Gulpilil
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Faraway Downs
2023
as King George
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021
as Self
Storm Boy
2019
as Fingerbone Bill's Dad
Cargo
2017
as Daku
Goldstone
2016
as Jimmy
MESSiAH
2016
Another Country
2015
as Self / Narrator
The Leftovers
2014
as Christopher Sunday
Charlie's Country
2013
as Charlie
Satellite Boy
2012
as Jagamarra
Australia
2008
as King George
Ten Canoes
2006
as The Storyteller
Crocodile Dreaming
2006
as Burrimmilla
The Proposition
2005
as Jacko
Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003
as Himself
Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002
as Moodoo
The Tracker
2002
as The Tracker
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002
as Self
Mimi
2002
as Granddad
Serenades
2001
as Rainman
BeastMaster
1999
as Shaman
Dead Heart
1996
as Second Man in Desert
The Man from Snowy River
1994
as Manulpuy
Until the End of the World
1991
as David
Dark Age
1987
as Adjaral
Crocodile Dundee
1986
as Neville Bell
The Right Stuff
1983
as Aborigine
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980
as Self
Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother
1978
as Self
3 Dances Gulpilil
1978
as Dancer
Storm Boy
1977
as Fingerbone
The Last Wave
1977
as Chris Lee
Mad Dog Morgan
1976
as Billy
To Shoot a Mad Dog
1976
as Self
The Rainbow Serpent
1975
Showing Melbourne to Maningrida
1973
as David Gulpilil
No Bag Limit
1973
as Self - Dancer
Walkabout
1971
as Black Boy