Jack Thompson
Acting
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 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
Born: August 31, 1940
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known For
Home
Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to change forever.
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, things do not work out as she expects. Her husband dies of influenza, and she finds that she must pick up and carry along with her life. She proves to be a strong, committed, and loving individual who attracts new loves into her life and finds that she can take good care of the old ones. Despite further tragedy in losing her oldest son, and a second marriage that is not all that she expects it to be she continues to survive as independently as she has discovered the courage to do so.
Riptide
Riptide is an Australian adventure television
A Woman Called Golda
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Great Gatsby
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Devil's Playground
The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently widowed, is a respected Sydney psychiatrist and father of two children. A practicing Catholic, Tom accepts an offer by the Bishop of Sydney to become a counselor of priests. During these sessions, he will uncover a scandal and become embroiled in the Church’s attempts to cover it up. Tom’s quest for justice will push him to his limits, and reveal a side of Church power and official corruption he could never have imagined.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Wake in Fright
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Flight of the Albatross
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Filmography
as Self
as Earl Robert-Barren
as Kipling Flynn
as Shaman Bill (Paje)
as Self
as Moran
as Angus Wilson
as Strick
as Self
as Mayor
as Himself
as Bob Myers
as Harris
as Ralph Addicott
as Peter Guthrie
as Narrator
as Cardinal Neville
as Mr. O'Donnell
as Charlie Murray
as Dr. Walter Perkins
as Charlie "Chang" Hyde
as Orpheus
as Bill Williams
as Harris
as US Federal Judge
as Kipling Flynn
as Self
as Bobby Thompson
as Harvey
as Self
as Bandy
as Congressman Breimer
as Narrator (voice)
as Richard
as Schist
as Skippy
as Other Voices (voice)
as Jack Jones
as Cliegg Lars
as Self
as Bernard Brewster
as Alan Jordan
as Captain George Brackett
as Policeman
as Buncle (voice)
as Sonny Seiler
as Harry
as Alexander
as Jack McLeod
as The Governor
as Mike
as The Judge
as Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
as Sam Garner
as Narrator (voice)
as Harry Mitchell
as Richard
as John Ricketts
as Ed
as Jack Neville
as Ralph
as Mr Wilson
as Jake
as Stuart Irving
as Bernard O'Reilly
as Tom Campbell Black
as Trebilcock
as Aubrey Dubose
as Nick Stenning
as Party Guest
as Robert O'Hara Burke
as Hawkwood
as Maxey Woodbury
as Hicksley
as Stan Graham
as Robert Crosbie
as Ariel
as Clancy
as Laurie Holden
as Ross Daley
as Major J.F. Thomas
as Simon Morris
as Self
as Rev. Neville
as Geoff
as Detective Manwaring
as Ted
as Flunky
as Scobie Malone
as Foley
as Tony Petersen
as Dick
as Ted