Jack Thompson
Date of birth: 1940-08-31
Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 杰克·汤普森, جک تامپسون
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
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The Good German
2006-12-15
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in
Original Sin
2001-05-08
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004-05-17
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002-05-15
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-W
December Boys
2007-09-14
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger com
Leatherheads
2008-03-24
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war
The Man from Snowy River
1982-03-25
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death
A Far Off Place
1993-03-12
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength whe
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997-11-21
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionai
Wake in Fright
1971-07-21
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a b
Flesh + Blood
1985-08-30
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnappin
The Magic Pudding
2000-12-14
Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bil
Excess Baggage
1997-08-29
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that g
Mao’s Last Dancer
2009-10-01
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and
Breaker Morant
1980-06-11
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t
The Sum of Us
1994-07-28
A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his so
Feed
2005-05-11
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
Mad Dog Morgan
1976-07-09
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the
Bad Blood
1982-11-12
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995-01-01
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the firs
Oyster Farmer
2004-09-10
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eig
Last Dance
1996-05-02
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a
The Club
1980-09-18
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not lik
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010-11-06
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005-04-26
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare
Man-Thing
2005-04-21
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff invest
The Earthling
1980-07-24
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness
Ruby Cairo
1992-12-12
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978-06-21
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolera
Oakie's Outback Adventures
2011-08-04
Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bun
South Pacific
2001-03-26
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an
Sunday Too Far Away
1975-06-01
The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful fil
McLeod's Daughters
1996-05-11
Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her est
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988-10-09
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckla
Jock Petersen
1974-01-01
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Peterse
Ground Zero
1987-10-01
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997-10-15
Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing thei
Caddie
1976-01-01
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own
Flight of the Albatross
1996-04-29
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand isl
Burke & Wills
1985-10-30
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on fo
Mystery Road
2013-08-15
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the
Around the Block
2013-09-06
A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his f
Blinder
2013-03-07
An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an
Wind
1992-09-11
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defe
My Name Is Gulpilil
2021-05-27
Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey th
Turtle Beach
1992-03-19
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the s
The Riddle of the Stinson
1988-07-25
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight be
Australia
2008-11-18
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch
Libido
1973-04-06
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and
A Woman Called Golda
1982-04-26
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in
Runt
2024-09-19
In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win th
Poker Face
2022-11-16
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire
Blood on the Coal
2015-08-12
A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues a
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987-02-21
When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious su
The Letter
1982-05-03
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to
Blue World Order
2017-03-03
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become
Scobie Malone
1975-10-03
Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, w
The Journalist
1979-11-15
Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence
Don't Tell
2017-05-18
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman se
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983-05-28
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison
The Light Between Oceans
2016-09-02
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue
Trouble in Paradise
1989-05-16
Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Departme
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017-03-09
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our
Short Circuit
1986-05-09
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human a
One Heart: One Spirit
2017-07-15
An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thomps
Swinging Safari
2018-01-18
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996-02-11
At the height of WWII and ten years after their union in Matlock Island, Father Ralph reunites with
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017-04-17
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
2015-04-21
Narrated by Jack Thompson and featuring the last Gallipoli Anzacs this film challenges the widely he
High Ground
2021-01-28
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last
Home
2019-06-29
Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004-09-04
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou
The Telegram Man
2011-01-07
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
Waterfront
1984-01-01
Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. I
Never Too Late
2020-04-23
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a tor
Whaledreamers
2006-06-15
"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient crea
Yolngu Boy
2001-03-22
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his
The Great Gatsby
2013-05-09
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lu
Because He's My Friend
1978-06-11
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, pro
That Lady from Peking
1975-11-13
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russia
Ruben Guthrie
2015-07-16
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
Resistance
1992-01-01
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a
Ten Empty
2008-07-03
A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one wee
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988-05-15
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Broken Arrow
1996-02-09
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, th
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002-04-05
An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.
Tully
1975-11-26
An opportunistic bounty hunter and a beautiful insurance agent travel to Australia to track down sto