John Jarratt

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-08-05 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Wongawilli, New South Wales, Australia

John Jarratt

Biography

Jarratt was born and grew up in Wongawilli, a small rural town near Wollongong, New South Wales and later in the Snowy Mountains area. Jarratt’s father was a coal miner and later a concreter, who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. His 5x great-grandfather, George Jarratt, born 1833, came from Croxton in Cambridgeshire, England; his son, John, married a Mary Kelly from Ireland. While in high school, Jarratt directed and acted in a school play which was a great success and led to his school principal recommending him for an acting career. Jarratt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973. His screen ...

Acting

1975

Picnic at Hanging Rock

as Albert Crundall

1977

Summer City

as Sandy

2007

Rogue

as Russell

2005

Wolf Creek

as Mick Taylor

2007

1978

Blue Fin

as Sam Snell

1987

Dark Age

as Steve Harris

1982

Next of Kin

as Barney

2012

Shiver

as Vinnie Rood

2012

2010

2013

Wolf Creek 2

as Mick Taylor

1975

2017

Hero

as Officer Henry

1985

The Naked Country

as Mick Conrad

2011

2015

StalkHer

as Jack

-

Justice in a Smoking Gun

as Samuel Foster

2008

Australia

as Sergeant

2014

Jack Irish: Dead Point

as Sen. Sgt Laurie Olsen

1988

1984

1994

Talk

as Mac

1995

2012

Django Unchained

as The Le Quint Dickey Mining Co. Employee

2010

Needle

as Paul, the Coroner

1996

Dead Heart

as Charlie

1987

-

Wolf Creek: Legacy

as Mick Taylor

2024

1978

Little Boy Lost

as Vic Tanner

2016

Observance

as Snitch

1993

1991

Pirates Island

as The Jackel

1982

Fluteman

as Fluteman

2015

Frenzy

as Benjamin Lightbringer

2021

Christmas Down Under

as Robert Parker

2018

Boar

as Ken

2016

Red Dog: True Blue

as Lang Hancock

2021

The Possessed

as Jacob Chandler

1992

-

The Ninth Order

as Colton Hill

-

Shed

as The Stranger

-

Zombie Plane

as John Jarratt

Production

2015

StalkHer

as Director

2011

2015

StalkHer

as Producer

2011

Savages Crossing

as Producer

2024

2024

What About Sal?

as Director

2024

What About Sal?

as Producer

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