John Jarratt
Acting
Jarratt was born and grew up in Wongawilli, a small rural town near Wollongong, New South Wales and later in the Snowy Mountains area. Jarratt’s father was a coal miner and later a concreter, who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. His 5x great-grandfather, George Jarratt, born 1833, came from Croxton in Cambridgeshire, England; his son, John, married a Mary Kelly from Ireland. While in high school, Jarratt directed and acted in a school play which was a great success and led to his school principal recommending him for an acting career. Jarratt graduated from the National…
Filmography
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Zombie Plane
2025
Shed
2025
Double or Nothing
2025
What About Sal?
2024
Darby and Joan
2022
Christmas Down Under
2021
The Possessed
2021
Love You Like That
2021
Boar
2018
Siren
2018
Hero
2017
Red Dog: True Blue
2016
Wolf Creek
2016
Observance
2016
StalkHer
2015
Frenzy
2015
Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014
Wolf Creek 2
2013
Django Unchained
2012
Territory Cops
2012
100 Bloody Acres
2012
Shiver
2012
Savages Crossing
2011
Bad Behaviour
2010
Needle
2010
Australia
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
Rogue
2007
The Final Winter
2007
The Making of 'Wolf Creek'
2006
Wolf Creek
2005
A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
2004
McLeod's Daughters
2001
Outriders
Outriders
2001
Dead Heart
1996
Water Rats
1996
All Men Are Liars
1995
Blue Murder
1995
Talk
1994
Blue Heelers
1993
Joh's Jury
1993
The Time Game
1992
Police Rescue
1991
Pirates Island
1991
Midnight Dancer
1988
Touch the Sun: Top Enders
1988
Dark Age
1987
Inspector Morse
1987
Australian Dream
1987
The Naked Country
1985
Crime of the Decade
1984
The Settlement
1984
Chase Through the Night
1983
Fluteman
1982
We of the Never Never
1982
Next of Kin
1982
The Last Outlaw
1980
The Odd Angry Shot
1979
Blue Fin
1978
The Sound of Love
The Sound of Love
1978
Little Boy Lost
1978
Father, Dear Father
1978
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978
Plunge Into Darkness
1978
Summer City
1977
The Tree
The Tree
1977
Bluey
1976
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975
The Great MacArthy
1975
Wolf Creek: Legacy
The Ninth Order
The Ascendants
The Ascendants