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