Jack Thompson

Biography

Australian actor Jack Thompson was born John Hadley Payne on August 31, 1940 in Manly, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.

Outside of Oz, he is best known for his appearances in _The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.

'Breaker' Morant in which he played a military defense attorney defending three soldiers accused of murder during the Boer War, won him internationally renown.

Thompson was cited as Best Supporting Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor award for the role.

In the early part of his career, Thompson balanced a career with the United Nations with his acting: The acting won out.

At 65 years old, his career has been recognized by the Critics Circle of Australia, which awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award, and by the Cinema Owners Association of Australia, which gave him its Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Film Entertainment.

Thompson lived for a while in a menage a trois with his wife Leona King, by whom he has a son, and her sister Bunkie.

Though the living arrangement came to an end after several years, Thompson has no regrets, saying "I wouldn't have missed it for quids.

" He was awarded Member of the Order of Australia in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the film industry.

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Country: Australia
Gender: Male
Education: Vanderbilt University Law School·Denison University·Sydney Boys High School·University of
Place of birth: Redcar
Birth date: 18 May 1956
Member of: Indiana Pacers·Collingwood Football Club·Southern West Virginia King's Warriors·Charlotte Independence·Aston Villa F.C.·Washington State Cougars football·Sheffield United F.C.·Scunthorpe United F.C.·Bristol City F.C.·Bath City F.C.·Tampa Bay Buccaneers·Cincinnati Bengals·Labour Party
Nationality: Australian

Member of the Order of Australia

Educated at the University of Queensland.
Adopted brother of television presenter and producer Peter Thompson.
Father of Patrick Thompson.
First establishing himself in a number of Australian television series ( "Spyforce" ) in the early 1970s, he later was honored with the Order of Australia for his contributions to the Australian film industry and has been Australians Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations for a number of years.
In 1994, the Film Critics Circle of Australia named him Best Actor for his work as a father adjusting to his gay son in The Sum of Us opposite Russell Crowe.
Veteran Australian leading character star whose versatile skills earned him the Best Supporting Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Actor award from the Australian Film Institute for his performance in Bruce Beresford s internationally acclaimed film Breaker Morant .
He was awarded the AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queens Birthday Honours List on June 9, 1986 for his services to the film industry.
Made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) .
He was awarded a star on the Australian Film Walk of Fame on March 13, 2011.
(January 2009) Currently lives in Ulong, New South Wales, Australia.

Movies

Don't Tell
2017
Tormented by her memories of sexual abuse as a 12 year old girl, Lyndal now battles to bring her case to trial before she turns 22.
Tag
2016
A teenage girl falls victim to a deadly infection which alters her human instincts, DNA, memories and emotions then sends her on the hunt for her friends in a blood thirsty game of TAG, 17 ....
Diamonds Down Under
2015
The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors
2015
The Sarkeesian Effect focuses on the controversy surrounding feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, Social Justice advocates, and the GamerGate movement.
The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors
2015
The Sarkeesian Effect focuses on the controversy surrounding feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, Social Justice advocates, and the GamerGate movement.
Blue World Order
2015
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources.
Blood on the Coal
2015
A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil and the current push by global mining giants to destroy regional communities and replace local mineworkers with a subservient itinerant workforce..
One Heart: One Spirit
2015
An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of Kenneth Little Hawk, an elder Micmac/Mohawk performing artist, meeting the oldest surviving culture on the planet: the 40,000 year old Yolngu nation located in northern Australia.
Blinder
2013
Blinder is a 2013 Australian film directed by Richard Gray and starring Oliver Ackland, Rose McIver, Anna Hutchison and Jack Thompson.
Mystery Road
2013
In an outback town, Jay Swan, an Indigenous cowboy detective, returns home to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town.
Court & Spark
2013
Courtney Thompson was a Seattle kid.
The Alabama Face Guy: Los Angeles
2012
Maggie
2012
Maggie is the story of a woman who is pushed over the edge by her illness, that those around her are blind to..
The Telegram Man
2011
A BAFTA Los Angeles® winner and Australian Academy Awards® nominee, The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community..
The Forgotten Men
2011
Victims
2011
When a local journalist arrives on a council estate to present a disabled, have-a-go hero with a Bravery Award, she inadvertently uncovers a tragic secret..
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a 2010 American-Australian-Mexican dark fantasy horror film written by Matthew Robbins and Guillermo del Toro, directed by comic book artist Troy Nixey and filmed at the Drusilla Mansion in Mount Macedon, Victoria and Melbourne, Australia.
Rainforest: The Secret of Life
2009
Rainforests hold the key to the secret of life on our planet.
Girls Will Be Girls: Delivering Coco, Part I
2008
Coco's mom needs Coco's liver, but Evie wants it too..
The Apology
2008
"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
Jack Thompson in Conversation: The Making of Ground Zero
2008
The Manual
2007
Sonny, an eight year old boy, is sent away from home because his father believes he has characteristics that could lead to homosexuality.
Generation IX
2007
Bottleneck
2006
Chloe lives with her husband in a house built from his empty liquor bottles.
Kittens
2006
Man-Thing
2005
Man-Thing is a 2005 Australian-American horror film, directed by Brett Leonard and featuring the Marvel Comics swamp creature Man-Thing created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway.
Feed
2005
An Interpol cop from Sydney, who has his own demons, pursues a man in the United States who liberates women from the cultural norms of thinness by feeding them to gross weights.
Black Soldier Blues
2005
In World War Two black American soldiers traveled to the Pacific and Australia where their experiences ranged from unforgettable love affairs with white women to being summarily shot by their own white MP's.
The Neighbor
2005
Since the day the moving truck showed up across the street, Ryan was determined to befriend his new neighbor.
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb.
Outlawed: The Real Ned Kelly
2003
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
2002
An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil..
Oztrek
2002
The ultimate extreme sports adventure where four young men on jetskis set out to circumnavigate Australia in an effort to raise money for cancer research..
Original Sin
2001
Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie.
South Pacific
2001
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush (Glenn Close) and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque (Rade Serbedzija).
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997
The story of 6 friends who journey to an island off the coast of Australia for the weekend.
Excess Baggage
1997
Emily has always been the rich brat who tries to pull every imaginable stunt to get attention.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, and an adaptation of the eponymous 1994 non-fiction novel by John Berendt, which was based on events that took place in Savannah, Georgia in the 1980s.
Teach Me Tonight
1997
Michael and Janie are a pair of young grad students living together on a quiet college campus.
Cream of Comedy
1996
Flight of the Albatross
1995
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island.
The Sum of Us
1994
Set in Sydney, Australia.
A Far Off Place
1993
The witty Nonni and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper's family on his lonesome farm in the savanna.
Turtle Beach
1992
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people.
Wind
1992
Will Parker, played by Matthew Modine, loses the Americas Cup, the worlds biggest sailing prize, to the Australians and decides to form his own syndicate to win it back..
Ruby Cairo
1992
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world..
Trouble in Paradise
1989
Rachel, a recent widow, is flying back to the US from the orient when the plane crashes onto a desert island.
Nightwish
1989
Nightwish is a 1989 American horror film directed by Bruce R.
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1989
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985..
Wild About Wilderness
1988
An introduction to wilderness issues for all types of community interest groups.
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys.
Rest in Pieces
1987
A newlywed couple move into the mansion of the bride's recently dead aunt.
Ground Zero
1987
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation.
The Riddle of the Stinson
1987
In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney.
Burke & Wills
1985
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century..
Flesh+Blood
1985
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son.
Kakadu
1983
The Letter
1982
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful..
Earth First: The Struggle to Save Australia's Rainforest
1982

TV

Writers
2015
During a bout of writers block, struggling writer Emmett Shelby happens across Jess Spencer, a fellow writer facing the same problem.
Find My Family
2008
Reunites family members who for whatever reason have been separated..
In the Line of Fire
2007
Action Blast!
2006
Action Blast is a fast paced, action filled one-hour variety show combining original live action and classic animation..
The Colony
2005
Two 21st Century families from Britain and Ireland are sent to see how they would cope had they been transported to New South Wales 200 years ago when it was a penal colony.
The Great Wall of Iron
1989
A five hour television series in five parts examining China's People's Liberation Army..
Sportz Crazy
1988
Waterfront
1984
Australian dockyard workers go on strike.
Sierra
1974
Yosemite National Park fills in for the fictitious Sierra where head ranger Jack Moore supervises a diverse group of employees.
Over There
1972
Spyforce
1971
Australian Intelligence Officers during World War 2..

Books

Manuscript inks
Jack C Thompson
Book conservation at Mount Angel Abbey
Jack C. Thompson
Time and skill requirements for handling agricultural products at fixed work places
Jack C. Thompson
Bomber crew
Jack E. Thompson
Bomber crew was self-published by the author, jack e.
Bomber Crew
Jack E. Thompson DFC
Bomber crew was self-published by the author, jack e.
Psychobiology of Emotions
Jack George Thompson
Psychobiology of Emotions
Jack George Thompson
Women in Celtic law and culture
Jack George Thompson
This study presents a global view on the early celtic experiment in gender equality, focusing on pre-roman celtic groups (celtiberi, british, gaulish) as well as the six major celtic societies which survived into the middle ages (breton, cornish, irish, m.
Psychobiology of emotions
Jack George Thompson
Regardless of culture, most adult humans report experiencing similar feelings such as anger, fear, humor, and joy.
Modernization of the Arab World
Jack Howell Thompson
Modernization of the Arab world
Jack Howell Thompson
Modernization of the Arab world
Jack Howell Thompson
Naked in the Rain
Jack M. Thompson
Mortgage department.
Jack M. Thompson
Mortgage department.
Jack M. Thompson
Mortgage department
Jack M. Thompson
Celine Dion Calendar 2022
Jack Thompson
Harry Styles Calendar 2022
Jack Thompson
Buried in the Bayou
Jack Thompson
Spain
Jack Thompson
Spain is a vibrant country with a unique culture and history.
Muerte en Las Vegas
Jack Thompson
Murder is never simple murder and intrigue headline in las vegas.
C'est la Vie
Jack Thompson
The Color of Greed
Jack Thompson
What do a private detective, a hacker and an assassin have in common?
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
Jack Thompson
The songs of a sentimental bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year.
Ngoni, Xhosa and Scot
Jack Thompson
The early growth of christianity in northern malawi has often been told as a predominantly missionary story.
Out of Harm's Way
Jack Thompson
Jack thompson eats giants for breakfast.
Out of harm's way
Jack Thompson
Jack thompson eats giants for breakfast.
A Wicked Device
Jack Thompson
This is a tale of loyalty and betrayal.
Out of Harm's Way
Jack Thompson
Jack thompson eats giants for breakfast.
Power, Speed and Stamina for Tennis
Jack Thompson
The Charterhall Story
Jack Thompson
The little airfield of charterhall, situated in the borders between england and scotland, was alive with activity in wwii.
Objective Tests in Motor Vehicle Craft Work
Jack Thompson Neil Gilleard
Motor vehicle laboratory experiments;in 4 vols.
Jack Thompson Neil Gilleard
Motor vehicle laboratory experiments.
Jack Thompson Neil Gilleard
Motor vehicle workshop exercises.
Jack Thompson Neil Gilleard
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State
Jacki Thompson Rand
Kiowa humanity and the invasion of the state illuminates the ways in which kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the u.
Wilma Mankiller
Jacki Thompson Rand
Wilma Mankiller (American Indian Stories Series)
Jacki Thompson Rand
Fertility for Dummies
Jackie Meyers-Thompson
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Liquid Soapmaking
Jackie Thompson
In "liquid soapmaking" you will find clear explanations accompanied by full color photography, tables and charts illustrating how to: a) successfully create sparkling clear soaps quickly and easily every time.
Electronic careers library in a secondary school.
Jackie Thompson
The finest small museum in the country
Jackwyn Thompson Durrschmidt
This author has dug deep in depicting the story of the lyman allyn art museum.
The finest small museum in the country
Jackwyn Thompson Durrschmidt
This author has dug deep in depicting the story of the lyman allyn art museum.

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