Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

August 31, 1940 · 86 years old

​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…

Known For

47 titles
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

2002 · 2h 22m · Movie

Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.

6.6
2
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

2013 · 2h 23m · Movie

A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.

7.2
3
Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

1996 · 1h 48m · Movie

Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.

6.1
4
The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans

2016 · 2h 13m · Movie

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.

7.1
5
Original Sin

Original Sin

2001 · 1h 56m · Movie

A woman, along with her lover, plans to con a rich man by marrying him, earning his trust, and then running away with all his money. Everything goes as planned until she falls in love with him.

6.0
6
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

2010 · 1h 39m · Movie

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.

5.5
7
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1997 · 2h 35m · Movie

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, who he befriends.

6.6
8
Leatherheads

Leatherheads

2008 · 1h 54m · Movie

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

6.0
9
The Good German

The Good German

2006 · 1h 45m · Movie

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.

6.0
10
Flesh+Blood

Flesh+Blood

1985 · 2h 6m · Movie

In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.

6.7
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

1983 · 2h 3m · Movie

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

7.2
12
Poker Face

Poker Face

2022 · 1h 34m · Movie

A tech billionaire hosts a high-stakes poker game between friends, but the evening takes a turn when long-held secrets are revealed, an elaborate revenge plot unfolds, and thieves break in.

4.9
13
Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

1980 · 1h 47m · Movie

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

7.8
14
Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright

1971 · 1h 49m · Movie

After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.

7.5
15
Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage

1997 · 1h 41m · Movie

A bratty teenager fakes her own kidnapping, but gets mistakenly kidnapped for real instead.

5.4
16
December Boys

December Boys

2007 · 1h 45m · Movie

One summer, four orphans boys who have grown to be the closest of friends find themselves competing for the attention of the same family.

6.5
17
The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River

1982 · 1h 42m · Movie

In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.

7.2
18
Mystery Road

Mystery Road

2013 · 2h 1m · Movie

An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.

6.6
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Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer

2009 · 1h 57m · Movie

In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.

7.3
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Man-Thing

Man-Thing

2005 · 1h 37m · Movie

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.

4.1
21
Feed

Feed

2005 · 1h 41m · Movie

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.

5.3
22
The Sum of Us

The Sum of Us

1994 · 1h 40m · Movie

A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."

7.3
23
Last Dance

Last Dance

1996 · 1h 43m · Movie

A lawyer assigned to the clemency case of a woman on death row finds himself forming a deep friendship with her while he tries to prevent her impending execution.

5.7
24
Blue World Order

Blue World Order

2017 · 1h 55m · Movie

The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which civilisation has crumbled. A massive electromagnetic pulse has killed all children on the planet with the exception of Molly (Billie Rutherford), the daughter of Jake Slater (Ja...

4.5
25
A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

1993 · 1h 48m · Movie

When a gang of African poachers raid her family's farm, young Nonni, visiting American teenager Harry Winslow and a local bushman guide must escape into the Kalahari desert and reach the nearest town.

6.5
26
Faraway Downs

Faraway Downs

2023 · TV Show

An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle station in Australia. Following the death of her husband, a baron plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her station.

7.0
27
Wind

Wind

1992 · 2h 6m · Movie

Romance and adventure happen during the America's Cup series of yachting races.

6.4
28
Swinging Safari

Swinging Safari

2018 · 1h 37m · Movie

A teenager comes of age in a small Australian town during the 1970s when a 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach.

5.6
29
High Ground

High Ground

2021 · 1h 44m · Movie

In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle.

6.5
30
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978 · 1h 48m · Movie

After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.

7.3
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Deception

Deception

1992 · 1h 30m · Movie

After her businessman husband dies suspiciously in a Mexican plane crash, his widow begins to investigate his labyrinthine financial dealings, not all of which are legal.

5.0
32
Mad Dog Morgan

Mad Dog Morgan

1976 · 1h 42m · Movie

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

6.1
33
Around the Block

Around the Block

2013 · 1h 44m · Movie

An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

5.4
34
A Woman Called Golda

A Woman Called Golda

1982 · 3h 11m · Movie

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

7.5
35
Sunday Too Far Away

Sunday Too Far Away

1975 · 1h 34m · Movie

A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.

6.9
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Never Too Late

Never Too Late

2020 · 1h 38m · Movie

A group of seniors plan to break out of their retirement home.

6.1