Jack Thompson
Acting
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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.…
Filmography
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Sam Pang Tonight
2025
Runt
2024
Faraway Downs
2023
Poker Face
2022
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021
High Ground
2021
Never Too Late
2020
Home
2019
On The Ropes
2018
Show Me the Movie!
2018
Swinging Safari
2018
One Heart: One Spirit
2017
Don't Tell
2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017
Blue World Order
2017
The Light Between Oceans
2016
Blood on the Coal
Blood on the Coal
2015
Ruben Guthrie
2015
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
2015
Devil's Playground
2014
Around the Block
2013
Mystery Road
2013
The Great Gatsby
2013
Blinder
2013
Oakie's Outback Adventures
2011
The Telegram Man
2011
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
Mao’s Last Dancer
2009
Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
2009
Australia
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
Ten Empty
2008
Leatherheads
2008
Who Do You Think You Are?
2008
December Boys
2007
Bastard Boys
2007
The Good German
2006
Whaledreamers
2006
Feed
2005
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005
Man-Thing
2005
Oyster Farmer
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002
My Brother Jack
2001
Original Sin
2001
South Pacific
2001
Yolngu Boy
2001
The Magic Pudding
2000
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997
Excess Baggage
1997
McLeod's Daughters
1996
Last Dance
1996
Flight of the Albatross
1996
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996
Broken Arrow
1996
A Woman of Independent Means
1995
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995
The Sum of Us
1994
The Dwelling Place
1994
A Far Off Place
1993
Ruby Cairo
1992
Wind
1992
Turtle Beach
1992
Resistance
1992
Trouble in Paradise
1989
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988
The Riddle of the Stinson
1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
Ground Zero
1987
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
The Last Frontier
1986
Short Circuit
1986
Burke & Wills
1985
Flesh + Blood
1985
Waterfront
1984