Jack Thompson Biography (1940-)
Original name, John Hadley Payne; born August 31, 1940, in Sydney, New SouthWales, Australia; married Leona King; children: Billy. Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA90211.
- Nationality
- Australian
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Actor, television producer, writer
- Birth Details
- August 31, 1940
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Appearances
- Flunky, That Lady from Peking, 1970
- Dick, Outback (also known as Wake in Fright), United Artists, 1971
- Ken, "The Family Man," Libido, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/BEF, 1973
- Tony "Jock" Petersen, Petersen (also known as "Jock" Petersen), AVCO-Embassy, 1974
- The Taking of Christina, 1975
- Title role, Scobie Malone, Cemp/Regent, 1975
- Foley, Sunday Too Far Away, South Australian, 1975
- Ted, Caddie, Atlantic, 1976
- Detective Manwaring, Mad Dog Morgan (also known as Mad Dog), BEF, 1976
- Reverend Neville, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, New Yorker, 1978
- Simon Morris, The Journalist, FJ/New South Wales/FJF Promoters/Edgecliff, 1979
- Major J. F. Thomas, Breaker Morant, New World, 1980
- Laurie Holden, The Club (also known as Players), Roadshow,1980
- Ross Daley, The Earthling, Filmways/Roadshow, 1980
- Stanley Graham, Bad Blood, Rank Film Distributors, 1982
- Clancy, The Man from Snowy River, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982
- Group Captain Hicksley-Ellis, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Universal, 1982
- Robert O'Hara Burke, Burke and Wills, Hemdale, 1985
- Hawkwood, Flesh and Blood (also known as The Rose and the Sword and Los senores del acero), Riverside, 1985
- Party guest, Short Circuit, 1986
- Trebilcock, Ground Zero, Hoyts, 1987
- Ralph Hamilton, The Killing Beach (also known as Turtle Beach), Warner Bros., 1991
- Jack Neville, Wind, TriStar, 1992
- Mr. Wilson, Resistance, 1992
- John Ricketts, A Far Off Place, Buena Vista, 1993
- Ed, Deception (also known as Ruby Cairo and The MissingLink: Ruby Cairo), Miramax, 1993
- Harry Mitchell, The Sum of Us, Samuel Goldwyn, 1994
- Mike, Der Flug des Albatros (also known as Flight of the Albatross), 1995
- Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Broken Arrow, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996
- The governor, Last Dance, Buena Vista/Touchstone, 1996
- Alexander T. Hope, Excess Baggage, Columbia/Sony Pictures, 1997
- Harry, Under the Lighthouse Dancing, 1997
- Sonny Seiler, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Warner Bros., 1997
- (Uncredited) Magazine vendor, Feeling Sexy, 1999
- Voice of Buncle, The Magic Pudding, 2000
- Yolngu Boy, Beyond Films, 2001
- Alan Jordan, Original Sin (also known as Peche originel), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2001
- Cliegg Lars, Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones (also known as Star Wars II), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002
- Also appeared in The Man from Snowy River II.
- Television Appearances
- Miniseries
- Maxey Woodbury, Waterfront, 1983
- Nick Stenning, The Last Frontier, CBS, 1986
- Tom Campbell Black, Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (also knownas Shadow on the Sun: The Life of Beryl Markham and The Beryl Markham Story), CBS, 1988
- Sam Garner, A Woman of Independent Means, NBC, 1995
- The judge, The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, ABC, 1996
- Bernard Brewster, My Brother Jack, IO Network, 2001
- Movies
- Ariel, A Woman Called Golda, syndicated, 1982
- Robert Crosbie, The Letter, ABC, 1982
- Special Bulletin, NBC, 1983
- Aubrey Dubose, Kojak: The Price of Justice (also known as Kojak: The Investigation), CBS, 1987
- Bernard O'Reilly, The Riddle of the Stinson, 1987
- Jake LaFontaine, Trouble in Paradise, CBS, 1988
- Irvine, The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy, 1989
- Fireman, After the Shock, 1990
- Jack McLeod, McLeod's Daughters, 1995
- Captain George Brackett, South Pacific (also known as Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific), ABC, 2001
- Episodic
- Wally, "Hagan's Kingdom," Riptide, 1969
- Ted, "Flight of the Curlew," Riptide, 1969
- Jack, "Boney and the Strangler," Boney, 1973
- Red Kelly, "Boney and the Kelly Gang," Boney, 1973
- Detective Sergeant Jack Beck, "Time and Tide," Homicide, 1974
- Himself, The Ray Martin Show, 2001
- Other
- Tully (also known as Armchair Cinema: Tully), 1975
- Geoff, Because He's My Friend (also known as Love under Pressure), 1978
- Living in America (special), VH1, 1991
- Appeared in a continuing role on an Australian soap opera; appeared as Richard, The Dwelling Place (series), and as Erskine, Spyforce (series).
- Television Producer
- Movies
- Stagecoach, CBS, 1986
- Specials
- (Associate producer) Sandy in Disneyland, 1974
- (Associate producer) Featherstone's Nest, 1979
- The Best Little Special in Texas, 1982
- The Winning Hand, syndicated, 1985
- (And creator) The Door Is Always Open, syndicated, 1985
- WRITINGS
- Television Specials
- The Winning Hand, syndicated, 1985
- The Door Is Always Open, syndicated, 1985
- Also writer for The Best Little Special in Texas, 1982.