​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

Filmography

• 2024Runt — Earl Robert-Barren
• Faraway Downs — Kipling Flynn
• 2022Poker Face — Shaman Bill (Paje)
• 2021High Ground — Moran
• 2020Never Too Late — Angus Wilson
• 2019Home
• On The Ropes — Strick
• 2018Swinging Safari — Mayor
• 2017Blue World Order — Harris
• 2017Don't Tell — Bob Myers
• 2016The Light Between Oceans — Ralph Addicott
• 2015Blood on the Coal — Narrator
• 2015Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All — Narrator
• 2015Ruben Guthrie — Peter Guthrie
• Devil's Playground — Cardinal Neville
• 2013Around the Block — Mr. O'Donnell
• 2013Blinder — Charlie "Chang" Hyde
• 2013Mystery Road — Charlie Murray
• 2013The Great Gatsby — Dr. Walter Perkins
• 2011Oakie's Outback Adventures — Orpheus
• 2011The Telegram Man — Bill Williams
• 2010Don't Be Afraid of the Dark — Harris
• Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
• 2009Mao’s Last Dancer — Judge Woodrow Seals
• 2008Australia — Kipling Flynn
• 2008Leatherheads — Harvey
• 2008Ten Empty — Bobby Thompson
• Bastard Boys
• 2007December Boys — Bandy
• 2006The Good German — Congressman Breimer
• 2006Whaledreamers — Narrator (voice)
• 2005Feed — Richard, Executive Producer
• 2005Gallipoli: The Untold Stories — Narrator
• 2005Man-Thing — Schist
• 2004Oyster Farmer — Skippy
• 2004The Assassination of Richard Nixon — Jack Jones
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — Cliegg Lars
• My Brother Jack — Bernard Brewster
• 2001Original Sin — Alan Jordan
• 2001South Pacific — Captain George Brackett
• 2001Yolngu Boy — Policeman
• 2000The Magic Pudding — Buncle (voice)
• 1997Breaking Up — Thanks
• 1997Excess Baggage — Alexander
• 1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil — Sonny Seiler
• 1997Under the Lighthouse Dancing — Harry
• 1996Broken Arrow — Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
• 1996Flight of the Albatross — Mike
• 1996Last Dance — The Governor
• 1996McLeod's Daughters — Jack McLeod
• 1996The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years — The Judge
• A Woman of Independent Means — Sam Garner
• 1995Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz — Narrator (voice)
• The Dwelling Place — Richard
• 1994The Sum of Us — Harry Mitchell
• 1993A Far Off Place — John Ricketts
• 1992Resistance — Mr Wilson
• 1992Ruby Cairo — Ed
• 1992Turtle Beach — Ralph
• 1992Wind — Jack Neville
• 1989Trouble in Paradise — Jake
• 1988Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun — Tom Campbell Black
• 1988The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy — Stuart Irving
• 1988The Riddle of the Stinson — Bernard O'Reilly
• 1987Ground Zero — Trebilcock
• 1987Kojak: The Price of Justice — Aubrey Dubose
• 1986Short Circuit — Party Guest
• The Last Frontier — Nick Stenning
• 1985Burke & Wills — Robert O'Hara Burke
• 1985Flesh + Blood — Hawkwood
• 1984Waterfront — Maxey Woodbury
• 1983Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — Hicksley
• 1982A Woman Called Golda — Ariel
• 1982Bad Blood — Stan Graham
• 1982The Letter — Robert Crosbie
• 1982The Man from Snowy River — Clancy
• 1980Breaker Morant — Major J.F. Thomas
• 1980The Club — Laurie Holden
• 1980The Earthling — Ross Daley
• 1979The Journalist — Simon Morris
• 1978Because He's My Friend — Geoff
• 1978The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith — Rev. Neville
• 1976Caddie — Ted
• 1976Mad Dog Morgan — Detective Manwaring
• 1975Scobie Malone — Scobie Malone
• 1975Sunday Too Far Away — Foley
• 1975That Lady from Peking — Flunky
• 1975Tully — Vic Parkes
• 1974Petersen — Tony Petersen
• 1973Libido
• The Evil Touch
• Spyforce
• 1971Wake in Fright — Dick
• 1971Where Dead Men Lie — Commentator (voice)
• Riptide — Ted

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Sam Pang Tonight — Self
• 2021My Name Is Gulpilil — Self
• Show Me the Movie! — Self
• 2017David Stratton: A Cinematic Life — Self
• 2017One Heart: One Spirit — Himself
• 2017Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches — Self
• 2008Not Quite Hollywood — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• 2002Gulpilil: One Red Blood — Self
• Parkinson In Australia — Self