Jack Thompson: movies and TV shows
Jack Thompson has 107 credits in the archive: 91 films and 16 TV series, from 1969 to 2025. Highest rated: Riptide (9.3/10).
Career timeline
1969 – 2025 · busiest year: 1996 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Pang Tonight | Self | TV | 5.0 | 84 |
| 2024 | Runt | Earl Robert-Barren | Film | 6.2 | 83 |
| 2023 | Faraway Downs | Kipling Flynn | TV | 6.9 | 82 |
| 2022 | Poker Face | Shaman Bill (Paje) | Film | 5.6 | 81 |
| 2021 | High Ground | Moran | Film | 6.3 | 80 |
| 2021 | My Name Is Gulpilil | Self | Film | 6.4 | 80 |
| 2020 | Never Too Late | Angus Wilson | Film | 5.8 | 79 |
| 2019 | Home | Film | 10.0 | 78 | |
| 2018 | Swinging Safari | Mayor | Film | 5.3 | 77 |
| 2018 | Show Me the Movie! | Self | TV | 4.0 | 77 |
| 2018 | On The Ropes | Strick | TV | 3.5 | 77 |
| 2017 | Blue World Order | Harris | Film | 4.2 | 76 |
| 2017 | Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2017 | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | Film | 4.6 | 76 |
| 2017 | Don't Tell | Bob Myers | Film | 6.3 | 76 |
| 2017 | One Heart: One Spirit | Himself | Film | — | 76 |
| 2016 | The Light Between Oceans | Ralph Addicott | Film | 7.1 | 75 |
| 2015 | Ruben Guthrie | Peter Guthrie | Film | 4.6 | 74 |
| 2015 | Blood on the Coal | Narrator | Film | 7.5 | 74 |
| 2015 | Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All | Narrator | Film | — | 74 |
| 2014 | Devil's Playground | Cardinal Neville | TV | 7.4 | 73 |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | Dr. Walter Perkins | Film | 7.3 | 72 |
| 2013 | Mystery Road | Charlie Murray | Film | 6.2 | 72 |
| 2013 | Blinder | Charlie "Chang" Hyde | Film | 4.5 | 72 |
| 2013 | Around the Block | Mr. O'Donnell | Film | 5.1 | 72 |
| 2011 | Oakie's Outback Adventures | Orpheus | Film | 4.3 | 70 |
| 2011 | The Telegram Man | Bill Williams | Film | 7.5 | 70 |
| 2010 | Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | Harris | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 2009 | Mao’s Last Dancer | Judge Woodrow Seals | Film | 6.6 | 68 |
| 2009 | Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing | TV | — | 68 | |
| 2008 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV | 3.7 | 67 |
| 2008 | Australia | Kipling Flynn | Film | 6.6 | 67 |
| 2008 | Leatherheads | Harvey | Film | 5.9 | 67 |
| 2008 | Not Quite Hollywood | Self | Film | 6.8 | 67 |
| 2008 | Ten Empty | Bobby Thompson | Film | 2.5 | 67 |
| 2007 | December Boys | Bandy | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2007 | Bastard Boys | TV | — | 66 | |
| 2006 | The Good German | Congressman Breimer | Film | 5.8 | 65 |
| 2006 | Whaledreamers | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.5 | 65 |
| 2005 | Feed | Richard | Film | 5.6 | 64 |
| 2005 | Feed | Film | 5.6 | 64 | |
| 2005 | Man-Thing | Schist | Film | 4.3 | 64 |
| 2005 | Gallipoli: The Untold Stories | Narrator | Film | — | 64 |
| 2004 | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Jack Jones | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 63 |
| 2004 | Oyster Farmer | Skippy | Film | 5.7 | 63 |
| 2002 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Cliegg Lars | Film | 6.6 | 61 |
| 2002 | Gulpilil: One Red Blood | Self | Film | 6.8 | 61 |
| 2001 | Original Sin | Alan Jordan | Film | 6.1 | 60 |
| 2001 | South Pacific | Captain George Brackett | Film | 5.2 | 60 |
| 2001 | My Brother Jack | Bernard Brewster | TV | 5.0 | 60 |
| 2001 | Yolngu Boy | Policeman | Film | 5.8 | 60 |
| 2000 | The Magic Pudding | Buncle (voice) | Film | 5.2 | 59 |
| 1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Sonny Seiler | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1997 | Excess Baggage | Alexander | Film | 6.1 | 56 |
| 1997 | Breaking Up | Film | 4.6 | 56 | |
| 1997 | Under the Lighthouse Dancing | Harry | Film | 5.3 | 56 |
| 1996 | Broken Arrow | Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1996 | Last Dance | The Governor | Film | 5.7 | 55 |
| 1996 | McLeod's Daughters | Jack McLeod | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 1996 | Flight of the Albatross | Mike | Film | 7.6 | 55 |
| 1996 | The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years | The Judge | Film | 6.9 | 55 |
| 1995 | A Woman of Independent Means | Sam Garner | TV | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1995 | Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 54 |
| 1994 | The Sum of Us | Harry Mitchell | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 1994 | The Dwelling Place | Richard | TV | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1993 | A Far Off Place | John Ricketts | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1992 | Ruby Cairo | Ed | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 1992 | Wind | Jack Neville | Film | 6.2 | 51 |
| 1992 | Turtle Beach | Ralph | Film | 5.3 | 51 |
| 1992 | Resistance | Mr Wilson | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1989 | Trouble in Paradise | Jake | Film | 4.4 | 48 |
| 1988 | The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy | Stuart Irving | Film | 5.5 | 47 |
| 1988 | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Tom Campbell Black | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1988 | The Riddle of the Stinson | Bernard O'Reilly | Film | 7.2 | 47 |
| 1987 | Ground Zero | Trebilcock | Film | 6.8 | 46 |
| 1987 | Kojak: The Price of Justice | Aubrey Dubose | Film | 5.2 | 46 |
| 1986 | Short Circuit | Party Guest | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1986 | The Last Frontier | Nick Stenning | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1985 | Flesh + Blood | Hawkwood | Film | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1985 | Burke & Wills | Robert O'Hara Burke | Film | 5.1 | 44 |
| 1984 | Waterfront | Maxey Woodbury | Film | — | 43 |
| 1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Hicksley | Film | 7.3 | 42 |
| 1982 | The Man from Snowy River | Clancy | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1982 | A Woman Called Golda | Ariel | Film | 7.7 | 41 |
| 1982 | Bad Blood | Stan Graham | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1982 | The Letter | Robert Crosbie | Film | 4.7 | 41 |
| 1980 | Breaker Morant | Major J.F. Thomas | Film | 7.1 | 39 |
| 1980 | The Earthling | Ross Daley | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1980 | The Club | Laurie Holden | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1979 | Parkinson In Australia | Self | TV | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1979 | The Journalist | Simon Morris | Film | 4.8 | 38 |
| 1978 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Rev. Neville | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1978 | Because He's My Friend | Geoff | Film | 8.0 | 37 |
| 1976 | Mad Dog Morgan | Detective Manwaring | Film | 5.9 | 35 |
| 1976 | Caddie | Ted | Film | 6.2 | 35 |
| 1975 | That Lady from Peking | Flunky | Film | 4.0 | 34 |
| 1975 | Scobie Malone | Scobie Malone | Film | 5.0 | 34 |
| 1975 | Sunday Too Far Away | Foley | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1975 | Tully | Vic Parkes | Film | 9.0 | 34 |
| 1974 | Jock Petersen | Tony Petersen | Film | 3.8 | 33 |
| 1973 | The Evil Touch | TV | 6.0 | 32 | |
| 1973 | Libido | Film | 4.7 | 32 | |
| 1971 | Spyforce | TV | 6.0 | 30 | |
| 1971 | Wake in Fright | Dick | Film | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1971 | Where Dead Men Lie | Commentator (voice) | Film | — | 30 |
| 1969 | Riptide | Ted | TV | 9.3 | 28 |