Biography
Jack Thibeau (born June 12, 1946) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the prisoner Clarence Anglin in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz. During his career, he frequently appeared in other movies that starred Clint Eastwood, such as Any Which Way You Can (1980), Sudden Impact (1983), and City Heat (1984). Thibeau also played a number of characters in such films as 48 Hrs. (1982), The Hitcher (1986), Lethal Weapon (1987), and Action Jackson (1988). In addition Thibeau...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Murder 101
1991
as Officer (Roadblock)
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found mur...
Off Limits
1988
Writer
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time ...
Action Jackson
1988
as Detective Kotterwell
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
Cherry 2000
1987
as Stubby Man
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson t...
Lethal Weapon
1987
as Sergeant McCaskey
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
The Hitcher
1986
as Trooper Prestone
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a ...
Streets of Justice
1985
as Zero McKenzie
After bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a light sentence in the court system, he decides to seek hi...
Warning Sign
1985
as Pisarczyk
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Love Lives On
1985
as Mike Carver
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
Kids Don't Tell
1985
as Donny
When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those aro...
City Heat
1984
as Garage Soldier
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na...
Sudden Impact
1983
as Kruger
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, t...
48 Hrs.
1982
as Detective
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Tex
1982
as Coach Jackson
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
Ms .45
1981
as Man in Bar
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress...
Any Which Way You Can
1980
as Head Muscle
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but wh...
1941
1979
as Stilwell Aide
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
as Clarence Anglin
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one...
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Soldier in Trench
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." ...