John Jarratt

ActorDirectorProducerWriter Aug 5 (age 74) Wongawilli, New South Wales, Australia 1975–2025 (50 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

Django Unchained

The Le Quint Dickey Mining Co. Employee

Film

Australia

Sergeant

Film

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Albert Crundall

Film

Wolf Creek

Mick Taylor

Film

Wolf Creek 2

Mick Taylor

Film

Rogue

Russell

Film

Wolf Creek

Mick Taylor

Film

Not Quite Hollywood

Self

Filmography

Acting (72)

Movies (58)

Zombie Plane

2025

as John Jarratt

9.0

Double or Nothing

2025

as Col

Shed

as The Stranger

What About Sal?

as Tommy

Christmas Down Under

as Robert Parker

The Possessed

as Jacob Chandler

Love You Like That

as Roy

Boar

as Ken

Hero

as Officer Henry

Observance

as Snitch

Red Dog: True Blue

as Lang Hancock

StalkHer

as Jack

Frenzy

as Benjamin Lightbringer

Jack Irish: Dead Point

2014

as Sen. Sgt Laurie Olsen

Wolf Creek 2

as Mick Taylor

Django Unchained

as The Le Quint Dickey Mining Co. Employee

Shiver

as Vinnie Rood

100 Bloody Acres

as Burke

Savages Crossing

as Phil

Needle

as Paul, the Coroner

Bad Behaviour

as Ricky

Australia

as Sergeant

Not Quite Hollywood

as Self

Rogue

as Russell

The Final Winter

as Colgate

The Making of 'Wolf Creek'

as Self

Wolf Creek

as Mick Taylor

A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'

as Self

Dead Heart

as Charlie

All Men Are Liars

as Barry

Talk

as Mac

Joh's Jury

as Kev

The Time Game

as Joe

Pirates Island

as The Jackel

Midnight Dancer

as Graeme

Touch the Sun: Top Enders

1988

as Jack

Dark Age

as Steve Harris

Australian Dream

as Todd

The Naked Country

as Mick Conrad

The Settlement

as Martin

Crime of the Decade

1984

as Terry

Chase Through the Night

as Clurry

Fluteman

as Fluteman

We of the Never Never

as Dandy

Next of Kin

as Barney

The Odd Angry Shot

as Bill

Plunge Into Darkness

as Toby

The Sound of Love

as Dave

Blue Fin

as Sam Snell

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

as Michaels

Little Boy Lost

as Vic Tanner

The Tree

Summer City

as Sandy

The Great MacArthy

as MacArthy

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975

as Albert Crundall

7.2

Wolf Creek: Legacy

as Mick Taylor

The Ascendants

as Jarrah

The Ninth Order

as Colton Hill

Television (14)

Darby and Joan

2022

as Detective Senior Sergeant Bill Carlton

Siren

as Naval Guard

Wolf Creek

as Mick Taylor

Territory Cops

as Narrator

McLeod's Daughters

as Terry Dodge

Outriders

Water Rats

as Colin McGuire

Blue Murder

as Jack Richardson

Blue Heelers

as Charlie Glover

Police Rescue

as Dave

Inspector Morse

as Sergeant Scott Humphries

The Last Outlaw

as Ned Kelly

Father, Dear Father

as George

Bluey

as Walter Kite

Crew (7)

Movies (7)

What About Sal?

Director

What About Sal?

Producer

What About Sal?

Writer

StalkHer

Director

StalkHer

Producer

Savages Crossing

Producer

Savages Crossing

Writer