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