Jack Thompson

ActorProducerCrew Aug 31 (age 85) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1969–2025 (56 year career)

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Biography

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…

Known For

Film

The Great Gatsby

Dr. Walter Perkins

Film

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Cliegg Lars

Film

The Light Between Oceans

Ralph Addicott

Film

Australia

Kipling Flynn

Film

Short Circuit

Party Guest

Film

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Hicksley

Film

Broken Arrow

Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff

Film

Wake in Fright

Dick

Filmography

Acting (105)

Movies (89)

Runt

2024

as Earl Robert-Barren

6.2

Poker Face

2022

as Shaman Bill (Paje)

High Ground

as Moran

My Name Is Gulpilil

as Self

Never Too Late

as Angus Wilson

Home

Swinging Safari

as Mayor

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

2017

as Self

Blue World Order

2017

as Harris

4.3

One Heart: One Spirit

2017

as Himself

Don't Tell

2017

as Bob Myers

6.3

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2017

as Self

4.3

The Light Between Oceans

as Ralph Addicott

Blood on the Coal

as Narrator

Ruben Guthrie

as Peter Guthrie

Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All

2015

as Narrator

The Great Gatsby

2013

as Dr. Walter Perkins

7.4

Blinder

2013

as Charlie "Chang" Hyde

Mystery Road

as Charlie Murray

Around the Block

as Mr. O'Donnell

Oakie's Outback Adventures

as Orpheus

The Telegram Man

as Bill Williams

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

as Harris

Mao’s Last Dancer

as US Federal Judge

Australia

as Kipling Flynn

Leatherheads

as Harvey

Not Quite Hollywood

as Self

Ten Empty

as Bobby Thompson

December Boys

as Bandy

The Good German

as Congressman Breimer

Whaledreamers

as Narrator (voice)

Man-Thing

as Schist

Feed

as Richard

Gallipoli: The Untold Stories

2005

as Narrator

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

as Jack Jones

Oyster Farmer

as Skippy

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Other Voices (voice)

7.1

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

2002

as Cliegg Lars

6.6

Gulpilil: One Red Blood

as Self

Original Sin

as Alan Jordan

South Pacific

as Captain George Brackett

Yolngu Boy

as Policeman

The Magic Pudding

as Buncle (voice)

Under the Lighthouse Dancing

1997

as Harry

4.6

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

as Sonny Seiler

Excess Baggage

as Alexander

Flight of the Albatross

1996

as Mike

7.2

Broken Arrow

1996

as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff

6.1

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

as The Judge

Last Dance

as The Governor

McLeod's Daughters

as Jack McLeod

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz

1995

as Narrator (voice)

The Sum of Us

as Harry Mitchell

A Far Off Place

as John Ricketts

Ruby Cairo

as Ed

Turtle Beach

as Ralph

Wind

as Jack Neville

Resistance

as Mr Wilson

Trouble in Paradise

as Jake

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

1988

as Tom Campbell Black

3.0

The Riddle of the Stinson

1988

as Bernard O'Reilly

6.8

The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy

as Stuart Irving

Ground Zero

as Trebilcock

Kojak: The Price of Justice

as Aubrey Dubose

Short Circuit

as Party Guest

Flesh + Blood

as Hawkwood

Burke & Wills

as Robert O'Hara Burke

4.5

Waterfront

1984

as Maxey Woodbury

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

as Hicksley

Bad Blood

as Stan Graham

The Man from Snowy River

as Clancy

The Letter

as Robert Crosbie

A Woman Called Golda

as Ariel

Breaker Morant

as Major J.F. Thomas

The Earthling

as Ross Daley

The Club

as Laurie Holden

The Journalist

as Simon Morris

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978

as Rev. Neville

6.7

Because He's My Friend

1978

as Geoff

Caddie

1976

as Ted

5.8

Mad Dog Morgan

1976

as Detective Manwaring

5.8

That Lady from Peking

as Flunky

Sunday Too Far Away

as Foley

Tully

as Vic Parkes

Scobie Malone

as Scobie Malone

Jock Petersen

as Tony Petersen

Libido

Wake in Fright

as Dick

Where Dead Men Lie

as Commentator (voice)

Television (16)

Sam Pang Tonight

2025

as Self

Faraway Downs

as Kipling Flynn

On The Ropes

as Strick

Show Me the Movie!

as Self

Devil's Playground

as Cardinal Neville

Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing

2009

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

Bastard Boys

My Brother Jack

as Bernard Brewster

A Woman of Independent Means

as Sam Garner

The Dwelling Place

as Richard

The Last Frontier

as Nick Stenning

Parkinson In Australia

as Self

The Evil Touch

Spyforce

Riptide

as Ted

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Feed

Executive Producer

Breaking Up

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