Jack Thompson
Known for: Acting
Born: August 31, 1940
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…
Known for
The Sum of Us
1994
Bad Blood
1982
The Club
1980
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005
Sunday Too Far Away
1975
McLeod's Daughters
1996
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988
Jock Petersen
1974
Flight of the Albatross
1996
Burke & Wills
1985
Blinder
2013
The Riddle of the Stinson
1988
Blood on the Coal
2015
Scobie Malone
1975
The Journalist
1979
Don't Tell
2017
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
2015
Home
2019
The Telegram Man
2011
Waterfront
1984
Whaledreamers
2006
Breaker Morant
1980
Mad Dog Morgan
1976
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995
Ground Zero
1987
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997
Around the Block
2013
Trouble in Paradise
1989
One Heart: One Spirit
2017
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
A Far Off Place
1993
Man-Thing
2005
The Earthling
1980
Caddie
1976
Mystery Road
2013
Turtle Beach
1992
A Woman Called Golda
1982
The Letter
1982
High Ground
2021
Because He's My Friend
1978
Tully
1975
Flesh + Blood
1985
Excess Baggage
1997
Feed
2005
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
Ruby Cairo
1992
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978
South Pacific
2001
Wind
1992
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
Blue World Order
2017
Never Too Late
2020
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002
Original Sin
2001
December Boys
2007
The Man from Snowy River
1982
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
Wake in Fright
1971
Last Dance
1996
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
The Light Between Oceans
2016
Swinging Safari
2018
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
Where Dead Men Lie
1971
The Good German
2006
Leatherheads
2008
Ten Empty
2008
Mao’s Last Dancer
2009
Oyster Farmer
2004
Yolngu Boy
2001
Ruben Guthrie
2015
Broken Arrow
1996
Poker Face
2022
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
The Magic Pudding
2000
Oakie's Outback Adventures
2011
Runt
2024
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017
Libido
1973
The Great Gatsby
2013
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
That Lady from Peking
1975
Australia
2008
Short Circuit
1986
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
Resistance
1992
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
The Evil Touch
1973
Bastard Boys
2007
Spyforce
1971
Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
2009
Riptide
1969
Devil's Playground
2014
My Brother Jack
2001
The Last Frontier
1986
The Dwelling Place
1994
Show Me the Movie!
2018
Who Do You Think You Are?
2008
Parkinson In Australia
1979
On The Ropes
2018
Faraway Downs
2023
A Woman of Independent Means
1995
Sam Pang Tonight
2025