Jack Thompson

Also Credited As:

John Payne, Thomas Hadley Pain
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Biography

He solidified his reputation during the 1970s with movies like "Petersen" (1974), "Sunday Too Far Away" (1975) and "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978) before giving an award-winning performance as the defense attorney in Bruce Beresford's "Breaker Morant" (1980), his first film to get wide exposure in the USA. He also appeared in a small role as a horseman in George Miller's "The Man From Snowy River" (1982), another movie from Down Under …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

Thomas Hadley Pain on August 31, 1940 in Manly, New South Wales, AU

LATEST CREDITS

Whaledreamers

Narrator/Himself

Petersen

Tony Petersen

Scobie Malone

Scobie Malone

The Journalist

Simon Morris

The Sum of Us

Harry Mitchell

Sunday Too Far Away

Foley

Bad Blood

Stanley Graham

Burke & Wills

Robert O'Hara Burke

The Club

Laurie Holden

Man-Thing

Franklin Armstrong Schist

Mad Dog

Detective Manwaring

The Last Frontier

Nick Stenning

Under the Lighthouse Dancing

Harry

Trouble in Paradise

Jake LaFontaine

Waterfront

Maxey Woodbury

Girl (Peter Thompson)

Actor

Breaker Morant

Major J F Thomas

The Man From Snowy River

Clancy

Ground Zero

Trebilcock

Caddie

Ted

The Letter

Robert Crosbie

Feeling Sexy

Shopkeeper

Turtle Beach

Ralph Hamilton

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Sonny Seiler

Around the Block

Actor