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Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at 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 The Club (1980), 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.
Birth Name
John Hadley Payne
Born
Saturday, 31 August 1940
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Faraway Downs | Kipling Flynn | 2023 |
Seriously Red | Self / Jack Thompson | 2022 |
Poker Face | Shaman Bill (Paje) | 2022 |
ABC DJ | Self | 2022 |
My Name is Gulpilil | Self | 2021 |
Never Too Late | Angus Wilson | 2020 |
High Ground | Moran | 2020 |
On the Ropes | Strick | 2018 |
Show Me the Movie! | Self | 2018 |
Swinging Safari | Mayor / The Mayor | 2018 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Faraway Downs | Kipling Flynn | 2023 |
Seriously Red | Self / Jack Thompson | 2022 |
Poker Face | Shaman Bill (Paje) | 2022 |
ABC DJ | Self | 2022 |
My Name is Gulpilil | Self | 2021 |
Never Too Late | Angus Wilson | 2020 |
High Ground | Moran | 2020 |
On the Ropes | Strick | 2018 |
Show Me the Movie! | Self | 2018 |
Swinging Safari | Mayor / The Mayor | 2018 |
Blue World Order | Harris | 2017 |
Don't Tell | Bob Myers | 2017 |
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017 |
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017 |
The Light Between Oceans | Ralph Addicott | 2016 |
Anh's Brush with Fame | Self | 2016 |
Justice | William Gray | 2016 |
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches | Himself / Self | 2016 |
Ruben Guthrie | Peter Guthrie | 2015 |
Devil's Playground | Cardinal Neville | 2014 |
Bonnie & Clyde | Warden | 2013 |
Around the Block | Bill O'Donnell / Mr. O'Donnell | 2013 |
Mystery Road | Charlie Murray | 2013 |
Camp | Jack Jessup | 2013 |
The Great Gatsby | Dr. Walter Perkins | 2013 |
Blinder | Coach Chang | 2013 |
The Mindy Project | Singer #2 (as Jack Fuller Thompson) | 2012 |
Oakie's Outback Adventures | Orpheus | 2011 |
The Bolt Report | Self | 2011 |
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | Harris | 2011 |
The Telegram Man | Bill Williams | 2011 |
Rake | Justice Beesdon | 2010 |
Oh My God | Self | 2009 |
Mao's Last Dancer | Judge Woodrow Seals / US Federal Judge | 2009 |
Sunday Night | Himself | 2009 |
Australia | Kipling Flynn | 2008 |
Top Gear Australia | Self - Guest | 2008 |
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! | Self | 2008 |
Ten Empty | Bobby Thompson | 2008 |
Leatherheads | Harvey | 2008 |
Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2008 |
December Boys | Bandy | 2007 |
The Good German | Congressman Breimer | 2006 |
Whaledreamers | Narrator / Self / Narrator (voice) | 2006 |
20 to 1 | Self | 2005 |
Oyster Farmer | Skippy | 2005 |
Feed | Richard | 2005 |
Man-Thing | Schist / Frederic Schist | 2005 |
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices | 2005 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Jack Jones | 2004 |
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton | Self | 2003 |
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Cliegg Lars | 2002 |
Gulpilil: One Red Blood | Self | 2002 |
Original Sin | Alan Jordan | 2001 |
My Brother Jack | Bernard Brewster | 2001 |
South Pacific | Captain George Brackett | 2001 |
Yolngu Boy | Policeman | 2001 |
The Magic Pudding | Buncle / Buncle (voice) | 2000 |
Feeling Sexy | Magazine Vendor | 1999 |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Sonny Seiler | 1997 |
Under the Lighthouse Dancing | Harry | 1997 |
Excess Baggage | Alexander | 1997 |
Australian Story | Self | 1996 |
McLeod's Daughters | Jack McLeod | 1996 |
Last Dance | The Governor | 1996 |
Broken Arrow | Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff | 1996 |
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years | The Judge | 1996 |
Der Flug des Albatros | Mike | 1995 |
Century of Cinema | Dick / Harry Mitchell | 1995 |
A Woman of Independent Means | Sam Garner | 1995 |
Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz | Self / Narrator | 1995 |
Girl | Victor Martin | 1994 |
The Sum of Us | Harry Mitchell | 1994 |
The Dwelling Place | Richard | 1994 |
A Far Off Place | John Ricketts | 1993 |
Deception | Ed, Feed the World Foundation Manager / Ed | 1992 |
Wind | Jack Neville | 1992 |
Turtle Beach | Ralph | 1992 |
Resistance | Mr. Wilson / Mr Wilson | 1992 |
After the Shock | Fireman | 1990 |
Trouble in Paradise | Jake | 1989 |
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Tom Campbell Black | 1988 |
Ground Zero | Trebilcock | 1987 |
Kojak: The Price of Justice | Aubrey Dubose | 1987 |
The Last Frontier | Nick Stenning | 1986 |
Short Circuit | Party Guest | 1986 |
Burke & Wills | Robert O'Hara Burke | 1985 |
Flesh+Blood | Hawkwood | 1985 |
The Bill | Jon Hall | 1984 |
Waterfront | Maxey Woodbury | 1984 |
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Hicksley | 1983 |
The Letter | Robert Crosbie | 1982 |
A Woman Called Golda | Ariel | 1982 |
The Man from Snowy River | Clancy | 1982 |
Bad Blood | Stanley Graham / Stan Graham | 1981 |
The Club | Laurie Holden | 1980 |
The Earthling | Ross Daley | 1980 |
Billy Baxter Presents Diary of the Cannes Film Festival with Rex Reed | Self | 1980 |
Breaker Morant | Major J.F. Thomas | 1980 |
The Journalist | Simon Morris | 1979 |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Rev. Neville | 1978 |
Mad Dog Morgan | Detective Manwaring | 1976 |
Caddie | Ted | 1976 |
Luke's Kingdom | Frankie Wells | 1976 |
That Lady from Peking | Flunky | 1975 |
Scobie Malone | Scobie Malone | 1975 |
Sunday Too Far Away | Foley | 1975 |
Armchair Cinema | Vic Parkes | 1974 |
Petersen | Tony / husband / Tony Petersen | 1974 |
The Evil Touch | Evan / Hammer / Stockman | 1973 |
Libido | Ken (segment "Family Man, The") | 1973 |
Spyforce | Erskine | 1971 |
Wake in Fright | Dick | 1971 |
The Rovers | Kenneth Baker / Bill | 1970 |
Division 4 | Charlie Penn | 1969 |
Riptide | Wally / Ted | 1969 |
60 Minutes | Himself - Attorney (segment "Grand Theft Auto") / Himself - Attorney (segment "Grand Theft Auto") (archive footage) | 1968 |
Skippy | Stefan Imard | 1968 |
Homicide | Ray Enright / Kevin Ford / Jack Skinner / Det Sgt Jack Beck | 1964 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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High Ground | 2020 |
Around the Block | 2013 |
Feed | 2005 |