John Howard

Acting · Visual Effects

Born October 22, 1952, Corowa, New South Wales, Australia

Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).

Filmography

• 2026Wolfram
• 2025Riley — Sports Broadcaster
• 2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — The People Eater
• Colin from Accounts — Brian Crapp
• Bump — Hippy Baby Boomer
• 2019A Matter Of Principle
• 2018Frontier
• 2018The Merger — Bull Barlow
• Get Krack!n — Bill Langham
• The Warriors — Bill Shepherd
• 2015Last Cab to Darwin — Simmo
• 2015Mad Max: Fury Road — The People Eater
• 2015unINDIAN — Mr Sanders
• 2014Grace Under Water — Ken
• Janet King — Steven Blakely
• Soul Mates
• 2006Jindabyne — Carl
• 2004A Man's Gotta Do — Eddy
• Jessica
• 2003Japanese Story — Richards
• 2003Take Away — Burgies CEO
• 2002The Road from Coorain — Angus
• Always Greener — John Taylor
• The Job
• 2001The Man Who Sued God — Edward Piggott
• 1999In a Savage Land — Rev Macgregor
• All Saints — Frank Campion, Jonathan Healy
• 1998Never Tell Me Never — Uncle Darryl
• SeaChange — Bob Jelly
• The Games — John Howard
• 1997Blackrock — Len Kirby
• 1996Dating the Enemy — Davis
• Pacific Blue — Dwayne Farrell
• Water Rats — D/S Sven Larsen
• Blue Heelers — Michael Fielding
• 1993Joh's Jury — Hedley
• The Girl from Tomorrow — Silverthorn
• 1988Around the World in Eighty Ways — Dr. Proctor
• 1988Evil Angels — Lyle Morris
• 1988Young Einstein — Preston Preston
• The Flying Doctors — Mike Stone
• 1984Razorback — Danny
• 1984Strikebound — Bashed Scab
• 1983Bush Christmas — Sly
• 1983Gary's Story — Gary
• 1982The Highest Honour — Captain R. C. Page
• A Town Like Alice — Donald Paget
• 1980The Club — Geoff Hayward
• Water Under the Bridge — Archie
• 1975Capone — Warden J. Johnston
• To the Rescue — Animation