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