Jack Thompson
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
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Evil Touch
5.5
Bastard Boys
0
Spyforce
5
Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
0
Riptide
9
Devil's Playground
7.4
My Brother Jack
3.667
The Last Frontier
7
The Dwelling Place
6
Show Me the Movie!
4
Who Do You Think You Are?
2.8
Parkinson In Australia
6
On The Ropes
3.5
Faraway Downs
6.905
A Woman of Independent Means
10
Sam Pang Tonight
0
Movies
The Good German
5.791
Original Sin
6.113
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
6.5
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
6.582
December Boys
6
Leatherheads
5.851
The Man from Snowy River
6.926
A Far Off Place
6.136
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
6.362
Wake in Fright
7.311
Flesh + Blood
6.587
The Magic Pudding
5.071
Excess Baggage
6.06
Mao’s Last Dancer
6.57
Breaker Morant
7.1
The Sum of Us
6.814
Feed
5.554
Mad Dog Morgan
5.988
Bad Blood
6.7
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
0
Oyster Farmer
5.81
Last Dance
5.694
The Club
6
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
5.777
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
0
Man-Thing
4.323
The Earthling
6.308
Ruby Cairo
4.8
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
6.8
Oakie's Outback Adventures
4.3
South Pacific
4.9
Sunday Too Far Away
6.7
McLeod's Daughters
5.4
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
3.2
Jock Petersen
3.3
Ground Zero
6.3
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
5.25
Caddie
5.8
Flight of the Albatross
7.2
Burke & Wills
4.9
Mystery Road
6.194
Around the Block
5.243
Blinder
4.6
Wind
6.3
Justice in a Smoking Gun
0
My Name Is Gulpilil
6.2
Turtle Beach
4.8
The Riddle of the Stinson
6.8
Australia
6.594
Libido
4.2
A Woman Called Golda
8.1
Runt
5.9
Poker Face
5.538
Blood on the Coal
7.5
Kojak: The Price of Justice
4.2
The Letter
3.5
Blue World Order
4.409
Scobie Malone
4.8
The Journalist
4
Don't Tell
6.3
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
7.3
The Light Between Oceans
7.1
Trouble in Paradise
4
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
4.333
Short Circuit
6.6
One Heart: One Spirit
0
Swinging Safari
5.29
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
7
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
0
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
0
High Ground
6.447
Home
10
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.1
Not Quite Hollywood
6.828
The Telegram Man
7
Waterfront
0
Never Too Late
5.8
Whaledreamers
5.8
Yolngu Boy
5.286
The Great Gatsby
7.362
Because He's My Friend
0
That Lady from Peking
1
Ruben Guthrie
4.8
Resistance
5
Ten Empty
2.5
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
3
Broken Arrow
6.1
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
6.6
Tully
0