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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Runt
2024
as Earl Robert-Barren
In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog ...
Poker Face
2022
as Shaman Bill (Paje)
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge ...
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021
as Self
Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
Never Too Late
2020
as Angus Wilson
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselv...
High Ground
2020
as Moran
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous m...
Home
2019
Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to change forever.
Swinging Safari
2018
as Mayor
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed ...
One Heart: One Spirit
2017
as Himself
An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of Kennet...
Don't Tell
2017
as Bob Myers
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a ...
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
as Self
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017
as Self
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood c...
Blue World Order
2017
as Harris
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resourc...
The Light Between Oceans
2016
as Ralph Addicott
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Blood on the Coal
2015
as Narrator
A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil...
Ruben Guthrie
2015
as Peter Guthrie
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
2015
as Narrator
Narrated by Jack Thompson and featuring the last Gallipoli Anzacs this film challenges the widely held perspective of the Gallipoli Campaign and the b...
Around the Block
2013
as Mr. O'Donnell
A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
Mystery Road
2013
as Charlie Murray
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in ...
The Great Gatsby
2013
as Dr. Walter Perkins
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gat...
Blinder
2013
as Charlie "Chang" Hyde
An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Oakie's Outback Adventures
2011
as Orpheus
Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he ends up in Texas, Queensland, in Outback Au...
The Telegram Man
2011
as Bill Williams
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
as Harris
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Mao’s Last Dancer
2009
as US Federal Judge
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during ...
Australia
2008
as Kipling Flynn
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to pro...
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
as Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...
Ten Empty
2008
as Bobby Thompson
A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.
Leatherheads
2008
as Harvey
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing ...
December Boys
2007
as Bandy
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may ...
The Good German
2006
as Congressman Breimer
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes...
Whaledreamers
2006
as Narrator (voice)
"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an incre...
Feed
2005
as Richard
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
Feed
2005
Executive Producer
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005
as Narrator
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with m...
Man-Thing
2005
as Schist
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: M...
Oyster Farmer
2004
as Skippy
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
as Jack Jones
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the ban...
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Cliegg Lars
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could...
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002
as Self
An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.
Original Sin
2001
as Alan Jordan
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his gras...
South Pacific
2001
as Captain George Brackett
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. Th...
Yolngu Boy
2001
as Policeman
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from N...
The Magic Pudding
2000
as Buncle (voice)
Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight of...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
as Sonny Seiler
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Breaking Up
1997
Thanks
An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and ros...
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997
as Harry
Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visitin...
Excess Baggage
1997
as Alexander
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
McLeod's Daughters
1996
as Jack McLeod
Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire. Althoug...
Last Dance
1996
as The Governor
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenc...
Flight of the Albatross
1996
as Mike
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involv...
Broken Arrow
1996
as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warhea...
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
as The Judge
At the height of WWII and ten years after their union in Matlock Island, Father Ralph reunites with Meggie who faces a deep crisis. Now, he must make ...
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995
as Narrator (voice)
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique star...
The Sum of Us
1994
as Harry Mitchell
A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr...
A Far Off Place
1993
as John Ricketts
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...
Ruby Cairo
1992
as Ed
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Wind
1992
as Jack Neville
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Austra...
Turtle Beach
1992
as Ralph
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes ro...
Resistance
1992
as Mr Wilson
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Trouble in Paradise
1989
as Jake
Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along ...
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988
as Stuart Irving
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
The Riddle of the Stinson
1988
as Bernard O'Reilly
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins ...
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Tom Campbell Black
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Ground Zero
1987
as Trebilcock
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and kill...
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
as Aubrey Dubose
When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But ...
Short Circuit
1986
as Party Guest
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his design...
Burke & Wills
1985
as Robert O'Hara Burke
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Flesh + Blood
1985
as Hawkwood
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague ...
Waterfront
1984
as Maxey Woodbury
Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & ...
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
as Hicksley
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel Joh...
Bad Blood
1982
as Stan Graham
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
The Letter
1982
as Robert Crosbie
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
A Woman Called Golda
1982
as Ariel
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Man from Snowy River
1982
as Clancy
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to...
The Club
1980
as Laurie Holden
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately...
The Earthling
1980
as Ross Daley
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes acros...
Breaker Morant
1980
as Major J.F. Thomas
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca...
The Journalist
1979
as Simon Morris
Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978
as Rev. Neville
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrif...
Because He's My Friend
1978
as Geoff
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their devel...
Mad Dog Morgan
1976
as Detective Manwaring
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Caddie
1976
as Ted
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
Tully
1975
as Vic Parkes
An opportunistic bounty hunter and a beautiful insurance agent travel to Australia to track down stolen booty.
That Lady from Peking
1975
as Flunky
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the...
Scobie Malone
1975
as Scobie Malone
Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney...
Sunday Too Far Away
1975
as Foley
The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the posi...
Jock Petersen
1974
as Tony Petersen
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurr...
Libido
1973
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires ex...
Wake in Fright
1971
as Dick
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Justice in a Smoking Gun
N/A
as William Gray
In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.