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.

Filmography

• Faraway Downs — King George
• 2021My Name Is Gulpilil — Self, Producer
• 2019Storm Boy — Fingerbone Bill's Dad
• 2017Cargo — Daku
• 2016Goldstone — Jimmy
• 2016MESSiAH
• 2015Another Country — Self / Narrator, Writer
• The Leftovers — Christopher Sunday
• 2013Charlie's Country — Charlie, Writer
• 2012Satellite Boy — Jagamarra
• 2008Australia — King George
• 2006Crocodile Dreaming — Burrimmilla
• 2006Ten Canoes — The Storyteller
• 2005The Proposition — Jacko
• 2002Mimi — Granddad
• 2002Rabbit-Proof Fence — Moodoo
• 2002The Tracker — The Tracker
• 2001Serenades — Rainman
• BeastMaster — Shaman
• 1996Dead Heart — Second Man in Desert
• The Man from Snowy River — Manulpuy
• 1991Until the End of the World — David
• 1987Dark Age — Adjaral
• 1986Crocodile Dundee — Neville Bell
• 1983The Right Stuff — Aborigine
• 19783 Dances Gulpilil — Dancer
• 1977Storm Boy — Fingerbone
• 1977The Last Wave — Chris Lee
• 1976Mad Dog Morgan — Billy
• 1975The Rainbow Serpent
• 1973Showing Melbourne to Maningrida — David Gulpilil, Director, Producer
• 1971Walkabout — Black Boy

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025Journey Home, David Gulpilil — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee — Self
• 2003Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence — Himself
• 2002Gulpilil: One Red Blood — Self
• 1980Walkabout to Hollywood — Self
• 1978Walya Ngamardiki: The Land My Mother — Self
• 1976To Shoot a Mad Dog — Self
• 1973No Bag Limit — Self - Dancer