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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 31, 1940
Place of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Also Known As
- 杰克·汤普森
- جک تامپسون
Jack Thompson
1.0 Popularity
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
Known For
Credits
Sam Pang Tonight
as Self
2025
0.0
Runt
as Earl Robert-Barren
2024
5.9
Faraway Downs
as Kipling Flynn
2023
6.9
Poker Face
as Shaman Bill (Paje)
2022
5.6
My Name Is Gulpilil
as Self
2021
6.2
High Ground
as Moran
2021
6.3
Never Too Late
as Angus Wilson
2020
5.8
Home
2019
10.0
On The Ropes
as Strick
2018
3.5
Show Me the Movie!
as Self
2018
4.0
Swinging Safari
as Mayor
2018
5.2
One Heart: One Spirit
as Himself
2017
0.0
Don't Tell
as Bob Myers
2017
6.3
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
as Self
2017
0.0
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
as Self
2017
4.3
Blue World Order
as Harris
2017
4.3
The Light Between Oceans
as Ralph Addicott
2016
7.1
🎬
Blood on the Coal
as Narrator
2015
7.5
Ruben Guthrie
as Peter Guthrie
2015
4.6
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
as Narrator
2015
0.0
Devil's Playground
as Cardinal Neville
2014
7.4
Around the Block
as Mr. O'Donnell
2013
5.1
Mystery Road
as Charlie Murray
2013
6.2
The Great Gatsby
as Dr. Walter Perkins
2013
7.4
Blinder
as Charlie "Chang" Hyde
2013
4.8
Oakie's Outback Adventures
as Orpheus
2011
4.3
The Telegram Man
as Bill Williams
2011
7.0
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
as Harris
2010
5.8
Mao’s Last Dancer
as US Federal Judge
2009
6.6
Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
2009
0.0
Australia
as Kipling Flynn
2008
6.6
Not Quite Hollywood
as Self
2008
6.8
Ten Empty
as Bobby Thompson
2008
2.5
Leatherheads
as Harvey
2008
5.9
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2008
2.8
December Boys
as Bandy
2007
6.0
Bastard Boys
2007
0.0
The Good German
as Congressman Breimer
2006
5.8
Whaledreamers
as Narrator (voice)
2006
5.8
Feed
as Richard
2005
5.5
🎬
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Man-Thing
as Schist
2005
4.3
Oyster Farmer
as Skippy
2004
5.6
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
7.1
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
as Jack Jones
2004
6.5
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Cliegg Lars
2002
6.6
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
as Self
2002
6.6
My Brother Jack
as Bernard Brewster
2001
3.7
Original Sin
as Alan Jordan
2001
6.1
South Pacific
as Captain George Brackett
2001
4.9
Yolngu Boy
as Policeman
2001
5.3
The Magic Pudding
as Buncle (voice)
2000
5.1
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
as Sonny Seiler
1997
6.4
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
as Harry
1997
4.6
Excess Baggage
as Alexander
1997
6.1
McLeod's Daughters
as Jack McLeod
1996
5.4
Last Dance
as The Governor
1996
5.6
Flight of the Albatross
as Mike
1996
7.2
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
as The Judge
1996
7.0
Broken Arrow
as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
1996
6.1
A Woman of Independent Means
as Sam Garner
1995
10.0
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
as Narrator (voice)
1995
0.0
The Sum of Us
as Harry Mitchell
1994
6.7
The Dwelling Place
as Richard
1994
6.0
A Far Off Place
as John Ricketts
1993
6.1
Ruby Cairo
as Ed
1992
4.9
Wind
as Jack Neville
1992
6.1
Turtle Beach
as Ralph
1992
4.9
Resistance
as Mr Wilson
1992
5.0
Trouble in Paradise
as Jake
1989
3.7
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
as Stuart Irving
1988
3.2
The Riddle of the Stinson
as Bernard O'Reilly
1988
6.8
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Tom Campbell Black
1988
3.0
Ground Zero
as Trebilcock
1987
6.3
Kojak: The Price of Justice
as Aubrey Dubose
1987
4.2
The Last Frontier
as Nick Stenning
1986
7.0
Short Circuit
as Party Guest
1986
6.6
Burke & Wills
as Robert O'Hara Burke
1985
4.5
Flesh + Blood
as Hawkwood
1985
6.6
Waterfront
as Maxey Woodbury
1984
0.0
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
as Hicksley
1983
7.3
Bad Blood
as Stan Graham
1982
6.7
The Letter
as Robert Crosbie
1982
3.5
A Woman Called Golda
as Ariel
1982
7.7
The Man from Snowy River
as Clancy
1982
7.0
The Club
as Laurie Holden
1980
5.8
The Earthling
as Ross Daley
1980
6.2
Breaker Morant
as Major J.F. Thomas
1980
7.1
The Journalist
as Simon Morris
1979
4.0
Parkinson In Australia
as Self
1979
6.0
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
as Rev. Neville
1978
6.7
Because He's My Friend
as Geoff
1978
0.0
Mad Dog Morgan
as Detective Manwaring
1976
5.8
Caddie
as Ted
1976
5.8
🎬
Tully
as Vic Parkes
1975
0.0
That Lady from Peking
as Flunky
1975
1.0
Scobie Malone
as Scobie Malone
1975
4.6
Sunday Too Far Away
as Foley
1975
6.4
Jock Petersen
as Tony Petersen
1974
2.8
The Evil Touch
1973
5.5
Libido
1973
3.8
Spyforce
1971
4.0
Wake in Fright
as Dick
1971
7.3
Riptide
as Ted
1969
9.0