Name
Jack Thompson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1940-08-31 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at the University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including such classics as Wake in Fright (1971), Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards.
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- 2006 The Good German as Congressman Breimer
- 2001 Original Sin as Alan Jordan
- 2004 The Assassination of Richard Nixon as Jack Jones
- 2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Cliegg Lars
- 2007 December Boys as Bandy
- 2008 Leatherheads as Harvey
- 1982 The Man from Snowy River as Clancy
- 1993 A Far Off Place as John Ricketts
- 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as Sonny Seiler
- 1971 Wake in Fright as Dick
- 1985 Flesh + Blood as Hawkwood
- 2000 The Magic Pudding as Buncle (voice)
- 1997 Excess Baggage as Alexander
- 2009 Mao’s Last Dancer as Judge Woodrow Seals
- 1980 Breaker Morant as Major J.F. Thomas
- 1994 The Sum of Us as Harry Mitchell
- 2005 Feed as Richard
- 1976 Mad Dog Morgan as Detective Manwaring
- 1982 Bad Blood as Stan Graham
- 1995 Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 Oyster Farmer as Skippy
- 1996 Last Dance as The Governor
- 1980 The Club as Laurie Holden
- 2010 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark as Harris
- 2005 Gallipoli: The Untold Stories as Narrator
- 2005 Man-Thing as Schist
- 1980 The Earthling as Ross Daley
- 1992 Ruby Cairo as Ed
- 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith as Rev. Neville
- 2011 Oakie's Outback Adventures as Orpheus
- 2001 South Pacific as Captain George Brackett
- 1975 Sunday Too Far Away as Foley
- 1996 McLeod's Daughters as Jack McLeod
- 1988 The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy as Stuart Irving
- 1974 Jock Petersen as Tony Petersen
- 1987 Ground Zero as Trebilcock
- 1997 Under the Lighthouse Dancing as Harry
- 1976 Caddie as Ted
- 1996 Flight of the Albatross as Mike
- 1985 Burke & Wills as Robert O'Hara Burke
- 2013 Mystery Road as Charlie Murray
- 2013 Around the Block as Mr. O'Donnell
- 2013 Blinder as Charlie "Chang" Hyde
- 1992 Wind as Jack Neville
- 2021 My Name Is Gulpilil as Self
- 1992 Turtle Beach as Ralph
- 1988 The Riddle of the Stinson as Bernard O'Reilly
- 2008 Australia as Kipling Flynn
- 1973 Libido
- 1982 A Woman Called Golda as Ariel
- 2024 Runt as Earl Robert-Barren
- 2022 Poker Face as Shaman Bill (Paje)
- 2015 Blood on the Coal as Narrator
- 1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice as Aubrey Dubose
- 1982 The Letter as Robert Crosbie
- 2017 Blue World Order as Harris
- 1975 Scobie Malone as Scobie Malone
- 1979 The Journalist as Simon Morris
- 2017 Don't Tell as Bob Myers
- 1983 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence as Hicksley
- 2016 The Light Between Oceans as Ralph Addicott
- 1989 Trouble in Paradise as Jake
- 2017 David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
- 1986 Short Circuit as Party Guest
- 2017 One Heart: One Spirit as Himself
- 2018 Swinging Safari as Mayor
- 1996 The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as The Judge
- 2017 Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Self
- 2015 Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All as Narrator
- 2021 High Ground as Moran
- 2019 Home
- 2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2008 Not Quite Hollywood as Self
- 2011 The Telegram Man as Bill Williams
- 1984 Waterfront as Maxey Woodbury
- 2020 Never Too Late as Angus Wilson
- 2006 Whaledreamers as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 Yolngu Boy as Policeman
- 2013 The Great Gatsby as Dr. Walter Perkins
- 1978 Because He's My Friend as Geoff
- 1975 That Lady from Peking as Flunky
- 2015 Ruben Guthrie as Peter Guthrie
- 1992 Resistance as Mr Wilson
- 2008 Ten Empty as Bobby Thompson
- 1988 Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Tom Campbell Black
- 1996 Broken Arrow as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
- 2002 Gulpilil: One Red Blood as Self
- 1975 Tully as Vic Parkes
- 1971 Where Dead Men Lie as Commentator (voice)
- 1973 The Evil Touch ( 3 episodes )
- 2007 Bastard Boys ( 2 episodes )
- 1971 Spyforce ( 42 episodes )
- 2009 Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing ( 2 episodes )
- 1969 Riptide ( 1 episode ) as Ted
- 2014 Devil's Playground ( 6 episodes ) as Cardinal Neville
- 2001 My Brother Jack ( 2 episodes ) as Bernard Brewster
- 1986 The Last Frontier ( 2 episodes ) as Nick Stenning
- 1994 The Dwelling Place ( 3 episodes ) as Richard
- 2018 Show Me the Movie! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Who Do You Think You Are? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 Parkinson In Australia ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 On The Ropes ( 4 episodes ) as Strick
- 2023 Faraway Downs ( 6 episodes ) as Kipling Flynn
- 1995 A Woman of Independent Means ( 3 episodes ) as Sam Garner
- 2025 Sam Pang Tonight ( 1 episode ) as Self
