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