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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.