Chips Rafferty became a legendary figure with an indefinable star quality and a presence that seemed, to the world at large, to be every Anzac rolled into one.  He was always passionately committed to the Australian film industry. Yet for a long time he was either knocked, ognored or taken for granted in his own country. Born John William Pilbeam Goffage, the sone of a miner near Broken Hill, he became Chips Rafferty much later . Diverted from is first ambition – commercial art – Chips wandered through the back blocks from Queenland to Victoria for ten years, working as a drover, a shearer, a miner, a ‘roo shooter, a fisherman and opal fossicker. The progression from extra to star to character actor began slowly, and his success in such classic films as The Overlanders, Forty Thousand Horsemen, Rats Of Tobruk and Bush Christmas made his name world-wide. Illustrated with black and white photographs.