Jack Thompson

Q: Has Jack Thompson won any awards?

Yes, Jack Thompson has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor.

Q: What was Jack Thompson's first film?

Jack Thompson made his film debut in 'The Devil's Playground' in 1976, which marked the beginning of his successful acting career.

Q: How many children does Jack Thompson have?

Jack Thompson has two children, both of whom have pursued careers in the creative arts.

Q: What is Jack Thompson's estimated net worth?

Jack Thompson's estimated net worth is approximately 5 million USD, reflecting his successful career in film and television.

Q: What is Jack Thompson known for?

Jack Thompson is known for his powerful performances in Australian cinema, particularly in roles that explore complex social issues.

Q: Has Jack Thompson worked in television?

Yes, Jack Thompson has appeared in several television series, showcasing his versatility beyond film.

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Jack Thompson's acting style?

Jack Thompson is recognized for his commanding voice and ability to convey deep emotional resonance, making his performances memorable.

Known for

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones poster

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2002 / Action, Adventure / 142 min

Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy...

The Great Gatsby (2013)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

2013 / Drama, Romance / 143 min

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....

Name

Jack Thompson

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

31 January 1940, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Spouses

Jill Thompson (1970–1980)

Children

2 children

Parents

Thompson M. and Marjorie Thompson

Estimated Net Worth

5 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV Sam Pang Tonight A weekly tonight show hosted by Sam Pang. Featuring a monologue roasting the news of the week, a mix of...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2024	Movie Runt In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course...	Earl Robert-Barren	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2023	TV Faraway Downs The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband...	Kipling Flynn	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2022	Movie Poker Face A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme...	Shaman Bill (Paje)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2021	Movie My Name Is Gulpilil Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2021	Movie High Ground In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last...	Moran	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	Movie Never Too Late It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They...	Angus Wilson	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2019	Movie Home Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2018	TV On The Ropes Follow aspiring Iraqi-Australian boxing trainer Amirah Al-Amir who has idolised her world champion father Sami her entire life. While working...	Strick	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2018	TV Show Me the Movie! Hosted by Rove McManus, this comedy panel game show features two teams captained by acclaimed actor Jane Harber and comedy...	Self	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2018	Movie Swinging Safari 1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing...	Mayor	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2017	Movie One Heart: One Spirit An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of...	Himself	Not rated
2017	Movie Don't Tell Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually...	Bob Myers	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2017	Movie Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.	Self	Not rated
2017	Movie David Stratton: A Cinematic Life A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2017	Movie Blue World Order After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for...	Harris	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2016	Movie The Light Between Oceans A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an...	Ralph Addicott	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2015	Movie Blood on the Coal A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes,...	Narrator	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2015	Movie Ruben Guthrie The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.	Peter Guthrie	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2015	Movie Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All Narrated by Jack Thompson and featuring the last Gallipoli Anzacs this film challenges the widely held perspective of the Gallipoli...	Narrator	Not rated
2014	TV 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...	Cardinal Neville	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2013	Movie Around the Block A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.	Mr. O'Donnell	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2013	Movie Mystery Road A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case....	Charlie Murray	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie 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...	Dr. Walter Perkins	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2013	Movie Blinder An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.	Charlie "Chang" Hyde	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2011	Movie Oakie's Outback Adventures Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he...	Orpheus	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2011	Movie The Telegram Man The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.	Bill Williams	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2010	Movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who...	Harris	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	Movie Mao’s Last Dancer At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken...	US Federal Judge	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2009	TV Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing A definitive history of surfing in Australia, Bombora tells the story of Australian beach culture through our surfing champions, writers,...	Unknown character	Not rated
2008	Movie Australia Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a...	Kipling Flynn	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie Not Quite Hollywood As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	Movie Ten Empty A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.	Bobby Thompson	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2008	Movie Leatherheads A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star...	Harvey	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2008	TV Who Do You Think You Are? Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the...	Self	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2007	Movie December Boys For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and...	Bandy	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	TV Bastard Boys Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998...	Unknown character	Not rated
2006	Movie The Good German An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder...	Congressman Breimer	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie Whaledreamers "Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2005	Movie Feed A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.	Richard	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	Movie Gallipoli: The Untold Stories This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together...	Narrator	Not rated
2005	Movie Man-Thing Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a...	Schist	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2004	Movie Oyster Farmer A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with...	Skippy	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2004	Movie Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.	Other Voices (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie The Assassination of Richard Nixon It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him,...	Jack Jones	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2002	Movie Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into...	Cliegg Lars	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2002	Movie Gulpilil: One Red Blood An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2001	TV My Brother Jack The story of two brothers, David and Jack Meredith, who grow up in a working class family in Melbourne between...	Bernard Brewster	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2001	Movie Original Sin A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale...	Alan Jordan	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie South Pacific During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older...	Captain George Brackett	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2001	Movie Yolngu Boy After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood...	Policeman	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2000	Movie The Magic Pudding Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff....	Buncle (voice)	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	Movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.	Sonny Seiler	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1997	Movie Under the Lighthouse Dancing Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they...	Harry	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1997	Movie Excess Baggage A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car...	Alexander	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1996	Movie McLeod's Daughters Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and...	Jack McLeod	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie Last Dance Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman...	The Governor	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1996	Movie Flight of the Albatross After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah...	Mike	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1996	Movie The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years At the height of WWII and ten years after their union in Matlock Island, Father Ralph reunites with Meggie who...	The Judge	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1996	Movie Broken Arrow When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with...	Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1995	TV 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...	Sam Garner	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1995	Movie Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1994	Movie The Sum of Us A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who...	Harry Mitchell	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	TV The Dwelling Place Set in the 1830s, the story of 16-year-old Cissie Brodie after the death of parents and the repossession of the...	Richard	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1993	Movie A Far Off Place Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous...	John Ricketts	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1992	Movie Ruby Cairo Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.	Ed	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1992	Movie Wind In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's...	Jack Neville	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1992	Movie Turtle Beach Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of...	Ralph	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1992	Movie Resistance Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance...	Mr Wilson	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1989	Movie Trouble in Paradise Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong...	Jake	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1988	Movie The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.	Stuart Irving	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1988	Movie The Riddle of the Stinson A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane...	Bernard O'Reilly	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1988	Movie Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer	Tom Campbell Black	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie Ground Zero A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginal people...	Trebilcock	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1987	Movie Kojak: The Price of Justice When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly...	Aubrey Dubose	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1986	TV The Last Frontier Following a whirlwind courtship, a single mother from Los Angeles marries an Australian cattle rancher. He returns to Australia ahead...	Nick Stenning	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie Short Circuit After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes...	Party Guest	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1985	Movie Burke & Wills A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in...	Robert O'Hara Burke	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1985	Movie Flesh + Blood A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As...	Hawkwood	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1984	Movie Waterfront Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all...	Maxey Woodbury	Not rated
1983	Movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by...	Hicksley	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1982	Movie Bad Blood During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt...	Stan Graham	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie The Letter The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear...	Robert Crosbie	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1982	Movie 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...	Ariel	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1982	Movie The Man from Snowy River Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of...	Clancy	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1980	Movie The Club The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like...	Laurie Holden	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1980	Movie The Earthling Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become...	Ross Daley	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1980	Movie Breaker Morant During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they...	Major J.F. Thomas	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1979	Movie The Journalist Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian...	Simon Morris	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1979	TV Parkinson In Australia Australian version of Michael Parkinson's UK talk show. He interviews a broad range of famous Australians, and in later series,...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as...	Rev. Neville	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1978	Movie Because He's My Friend An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his...	Geoff	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1976	Movie Mad Dog Morgan The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.	Detective Manwaring	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1976	Movie Caddie Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her...	Ted	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1975	Movie Tully An opportunistic bounty hunter and a beautiful insurance agent travel to Australia to track down stolen booty.	Vic Parkes	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1975	Movie That Lady from Peking Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return...	Flunky	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1975	Movie Scobie Malone Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the...	Scobie Malone	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1975	Movie Sunday Too Far Away The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle...	Foley	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1974	Movie Jock Petersen Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the...	Tony Petersen	TMDB 3.8 / 10
1973	TV The Evil Touch The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1973	Movie Libido Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1971	TV Spyforce Spyforce was an Australian TV series produced from 1971 to 1973, based upon the adventures of Australian Military Intelligence operatives...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1971	Movie Wake in Fright A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.	Dick	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1971	Movie Where Dead Men Lie Where Dead Men Lie is a short drama based on a "script" written by Henry Lawson in 1896 in the...	Commentator (voice)	Not rated
1969	TV Riptide Riptide is an Australian adventure television	Ted	TMDB 9.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2005	Movie Feed A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1997	Movie Breaking Up An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 4.6 / 10

Runt

2024 / TMDB 6.2

Poker Face

2022 / TMDB 5.6

My Name Is Gulpilil

2021 / TMDB 6.1

High Ground

2021 / TMDB 6.3

Never Too Late

2020 / TMDB 5.7

Home

2019 / TMDB 10.0

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How many children does Jack Thompson have?

What is Jack Thompson's estimated net worth?

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