Jack Thompson
Acting
1940-08-31 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
Filmography
Sam Pang Tonight
2025 · Series
Runt
2024 · Movie
Faraway Downs
2023 · Series
Poker Face
2022 · Movie
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021 · Movie
High Ground
2021 · Movie
Never Too Late
2020 · Movie
Home
2019 · Movie
On The Ropes
2018 · Series
Show Me the Movie!
2018 · Series
Swinging Safari
2018 · Movie
One Heart: One Spirit
2017 · Movie
Don't Tell
2017 · Movie
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017 · Movie
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017 · Movie
Blue World Order
2017 · Movie
The Light Between Oceans
2016 · Movie
Blood on the Coal
2015 · Movie
Ruben Guthrie
2015 · Movie
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
2015 · Movie
Devil's Playground
2014 · Series
Around the Block
2013 · Movie
Mystery Road
2013 · Movie
The Great Gatsby
2013 · Movie
Blinder
2013 · Movie
Oakie's Outback Adventures
2011 · Movie
The Telegram Man
2011 · Movie
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010 · Movie
Mao’s Last Dancer
2009 · Movie
Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
2009 · Series
Australia
2008 · Movie
Not Quite Hollywood
2008 · Movie
Ten Empty
2008 · Movie
Leatherheads
2008 · Movie
Who Do You Think You Are?
2008 · Series
December Boys
2007 · Movie
Bastard Boys
2007 · Series
The Good German
2006 · Movie
Whaledreamers
2006 · Movie
Feed
2005 · Movie
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005 · Movie
Man-Thing
2005 · Movie
Oyster Farmer
2004 · Movie
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Movie
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 · Movie
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · Movie
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002 · Movie
My Brother Jack
2001 · Series
Original Sin
2001 · Movie
South Pacific
2001 · Movie
Yolngu Boy
2001 · Movie
The Magic Pudding
2000 · Movie
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997 · Movie
Breaking Up
1997 · Movie
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997 · Movie
Excess Baggage
1997 · Movie
McLeod's Daughters
1996 · Movie
Last Dance
1996 · Movie
Flight of the Albatross
1996 · Movie
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996 · Movie
Broken Arrow
1996 · Movie
A Woman of Independent Means
1995 · Series
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995 · Movie
The Sum of Us
1994 · Movie
The Dwelling Place
1994 · Series
A Far Off Place
1993 · Movie
Ruby Cairo
1992 · Movie
Wind
1992 · Movie
Turtle Beach
1992 · Movie
Resistance
1992 · Movie
Trouble in Paradise
1989 · Movie
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988 · Movie
The Riddle of the Stinson
1988 · Movie
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988 · Movie
Ground Zero
1987 · Movie
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987 · Movie
The Last Frontier
1986 · Series
Short Circuit
1986 · Movie
Burke & Wills
1985 · Movie
Flesh + Blood
1985 · Movie
Waterfront
1984 · Movie
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 · Movie
Bad Blood
1982 · Movie
The Letter
1982 · Movie
A Woman Called Golda
1982 · Movie
The Man from Snowy River
1982 · Movie
The Club
1980 · Movie
The Earthling
1980 · Movie
Breaker Morant
1980 · Movie
The Journalist
1979 · Movie
Parkinson In Australia
1979 · Series
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978 · Movie
Because He's My Friend
1978 · Movie
Mad Dog Morgan
1976 · Movie
Caddie
1976 · Movie
Tully
1975 · Movie
That Lady from Peking
1975 · Movie
Scobie Malone
1975 · Movie
Sunday Too Far Away
1975 · Movie
Jock Petersen
1974 · Movie
The Evil Touch
1973 · Series
Libido
1973 · Movie
Spyforce
1971 · Series
Wake in Fright
1971 · Movie
Where Dead Men Lie
1971 · Movie
Riptide
1969 · Series