Jack Thompson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-08-31 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jack Thompson

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...

Acting

2006

The Good German

as Congressman Breimer

2001

Original Sin

as Alan Jordan

2007

2008

Leatherheads

as Harvey

1993

A Far Off Place

as John Ricketts

1971

1985

Flesh + Blood

as Hawkwood

2000

The Magic Pudding

as Buncle (voice)

1997

Excess Baggage

as Alexander

2009

Mao’s Last Dancer

as US Federal Judge

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

2005

Man-Thing

as Schist

1980

The Earthling

as Ross Daley

1992

2001

South Pacific

as Captain George Brackett

1996

McLeod's Daughters

as Jack McLeod

1988

1974

Jock Petersen

as Tony Petersen

1987

Ground Zero

as Trebilcock

1976

Caddie

as Ted

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

-

1992

Turtle Beach

as Ralph

1988

The Riddle of the Stinson

as Bernard O'Reilly

2008

Australia

as Kipling Flynn

1973

2024

Runt

as Earl Robert-Barren

2022

Poker Face

as Shaman Bill (Paje)

2015

1987

1982

The Letter

as Robert Crosbie

2017

1975

Scobie Malone

as Scobie Malone

1979

The Journalist

as Simon Morris

2017

Don't Tell

as Bob Myers

2016

The Light Between Oceans

as Ralph Addicott

1986

Short Circuit

as Party Guest

2017

2018

2020

High Ground

as Moran

2019

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

2015

Ruben Guthrie

as Peter Guthrie

1992

Resistance

as Mr Wilson

2008

Ten Empty

as Bobby Thompson

1988

1996

Broken Arrow

as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff

1975

Tully

as Vic Parkes

Production

2005

Feed

as Executive Producer

1997

Breaking Up

as Thanks

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