Jack Thompson

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Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema.

He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career.

In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS).

He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as The Club (1980), Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980).

He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film.

He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards.

Early life

Born John Hadley Pain in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was three years old when his mother died, leaving his father, a merchant seaman, unable to care for him and his brother, David. He was sent to "LakeHouse orphanage" in Narrabeen by his aunt and subsequently adopted by the poet and ABC broadcaster John Thompson and his wife Pat, after which he changed his surname. Jack is film reviewer Peter Thompson's adopted brother.

Thompson was educated at Sydney Boys High School. He left school at 14, and became a jackaroo in the Northern Territory, as well as taking labouring jobs in New South Wales.

Personal life

Thompson married Beverley Hackett in 1963 and the five-year marriage produced his son Patrick Thompson. He met Leona King and her sister Bunkie in 1969, and entered into a 15-year polyamorous relationship with them. Leona was 20 and Bunkie was 15 when the relationship began. Bunkie left the relationship in 1985, and is estranged from her sister. Leona remained with Thompson, and gave birth to his second son, Billy.

Thompson featured in the first episode of the Australian version of Who Do You Think You Are?, which was televised on 13 January 2008 on SBS, with Thompson discovering that his great-grandfather was Captain Thomas Pain, and his great-great uncle was Alfred Lee, a prominent figure in Sydney society, who donated the journal of Joseph Banks, from Captain Cook's navigation to Australia in the 1770s, to the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Thompson used to own Hotel Gearin in Katoomba, Blue Mountains. He sold the hotel in June 2011.

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Career

Thompson started working in an agricultural lab in 1960 so he would receive a science degree. He began attending the University of Queensland in 1963 and earned a bachelor of arts degree, appeared in theatre at night, including the Twelfth Night Theatre and UQ Dramatic Society in Brisbane.

At the Publishers Authors Composers and Talent Centre, his talent was nurtured and nurtured. (PACT) Centre.

In 1968, he appeared on stage in The Devils.

Thompson took acting seriously, giving himself twelve months to try it out. His television career began with the soap opera Motel (1968) and included guest appearances on Riptide, Woobinda, Animal Doctor, Skippy, The Rovers, Division 4, Homicide, and Matlock Police. Personnel, or People, was also on display in a documentary short of Personnel. Donald Crombie (1969) directed the film "Sandra Crombie." Thompson made his film debut in The Lady from Peking (1968). He was the lead in a television movie Silo 15 (shot in 1969, 1971).

Thompson played Erskine, who was involved in World War II missions.

Thompson was also a key support character in the film Wake in Fright (1971). He continued to appear on shows like Over There, Matlock Police (again), Ryan, Boney, and Elephant Boy.

Thompson's performance in one of Libido (1973) was lauded; his segment was written by David Williamson.

He appeared in Linehaul (1973), playing a truckie, and he appeared on The Evil Touch and Homicide once more; later in Marijuana: Possession and the Law (1974).

Thompson was born in Petersen (1974), written by Williamson and directed by Tim Burstall. At the box office, the film was a huge hit. He appeared in another well-known Australian film, Too Far Away (1975), as a shearer.

Thompson appeared in Scobie Malone (1975), based on Jon Cleary's Web site. "Jack Thompson is a big part of my motivation to participate in this venture," Casey Robinson, an American. I have no doubt that if this film is seen in another country, he will be turned into an international celebrity straight away. There aren't many male actors like him around anymore. There's something about Bogart that reminds me a great deal. At the box office, the film was a flop.

"Totally" was a word from Armchair Theatre's "Tully" in Australia.

Thompson was instrumental in Caddie (1976), directed by Crombie, which was a huge success.

Thompson had already established himself in "macho" roles. "I think it reflects its time so accurately," he said later. "There was a preoccupation with the macho Australian male, and it's something that needs to be tested or purged on film."

Thompson proceeded to play fictional characters out of a fear of typecasting and "also the knowledge that if I could get out of that target zone, I would not be allowed to be seen as an actor."

He appeared in an episode of Luke's Kingdom and was the second leading actor in Mad Dog Morgan (1976) with Dennis Hopper. He took some time off to work on a script with his brother, but he was also instrumental in the Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978). Because He's My Friend (1978), he helped imported actors Karen Black and Keir Dullea in a TV film shot in Australia.

Thompson returned to acting after a break to appear in a sex comedy, The Journalist (1979). Thompson said at the time, "I haven't made any films since then because I haven't liked the parts I've been given, and also because I've been so busy promoting the Australian film industry overseas." The film became a well-known flop. Welcome Stranger, a script with his brother, was on display.

He was given a part of Private Hancock in Breaker Morant (1980), directed by Bruce Beresford. Thompson turned it down, Beresford rewrote the script and gave him the part again, and Thompson accepted. Filming of the nin film was postponed. John Hargreaves, who was supposed to play the lawyer, was unable to attend; Thompson was drafted; Bryan Brown played Hancock. The film was a huge success. At Cannes, Thompson received the Best Supporting Actor award.

In The Earthling (1980), Thompson supported US actors William Holden and Rick Schroeder (1980), who was top billed in The Club (1980), directed by Beresford from a play by Williamson.

In an interview about this time, he said, "You get terribly fed up with the public image that you must live up to." "I just want to continue being a part of the Australian film industry, not for materialistic reasons but because I love it." I do not want to act, but rather produce and possibly direct."

Thompson went to New Zealand to make Bad Blood (1982) playing killer Stanley Graham, then played a supporting role in The Man from Snow (1982), a Clancy of the Overflow.

In A Woman Called Golda (1982), Thompson went overseas to assist Ingrid Bergman. In Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), Lee Remick's husband appeared in a remake of The Letter (1982) with David Bowie and Tom Conti.

In the 1980s, Thompsons appeared in a miniseries about wharfies in the Depression, Waterfront (1983). He went to Europe to act in a swashbuckler for Paul Verhoeven, Flesh + Blood (1985), and then back to Australia to act in Burke and Wills (1985). This film was a box office disappointment.

In a TV miniseries The Last Frontier (1986), Thompson aided Linda Evans and Jason Robards, which was a huge ratings hit. He was involved in Kojak: The Price of Justice (1987), and he later returned home to play as an ASIO officer in Ground Zero (1987).

In Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988), Thompson was a love interest for Stefanie Powers, and he was the protagonist in a Australian television film, The Riddle of the Stinson (1989), playing Bernard O'Reilly.

He co-starred with Raquel Welch in Trouble in Paradise (1989) for US television and produced The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy (1989).

He appeared in After the Shock (1990) and had a role in Turtle Beach (1992) and Wind (1992).

Thompson began to act as a character actor in the United States, with appearances in Ruby Cairo (1993), directed by Graeme Clifford, and A Far Off Place (1994).

In 1992, he returned to Australia to play Russell Crowe's father in The Sum of Us (1994) before doing A Woman of Independent Means (1995) in the United States and Flight of the Albatross (1995) in New Zealand.

Did he play a part in Broken Arrow (1996)?

Thompson appeared in McLeod's Daughters, an Australian television film (1996). In Excess Baggage (1997), Alicia Silverstone's father appeared in Excess Baggage (1997) in Australia, and then under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997). Sonny Seiler, Kevin Spacey's lawyer, appeared in the Clint Eastwood-directed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). (Seiler himself appeared in the film as the judge in Williams' trial).

Thompson, a student in Australia, was a voice for The Magic Pudding (2000) and appeared in Yolngu Boy (2001). He appeared in the latest version of South Pacific (2001), My Brother Jack (2001), Original Sin (2001), Parts II - The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) and Oyster Farmer (2005).

Thompson was a principal actor in two films directed by Brett Leonard, Man-Thing (2005) and Feed (2006), the latter being written by and starring his son.

Thompson appeared in The Good German (2006), Bastard Boys (2007), Leatherhead (2008), Beacon (2010), The Last Dancer (2009), The Great Gatsby (2009), Monkey (2010), The Good German (2007), Red Eye (2014), The Light Between Oceans (2016), Don't Tell (2013), Blue World Order (2017), and Swinging Safari (2018).

He has appeared in television miniseries and appeared as the host of Channel 7's factual series Find My Family.

Thompson was the first nude male centerfold in Cleo in 1972. He has also appeared in television commercials, including as the Bank of Melbourne's principal and Claytons. Thompson is included in a collection of recordings of Australian poetry, including poems by Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C. J. Dennis, Patrick Joseph Hartigan (aka John O'Brien) and John O'Grady. (see Discography below). In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, he discusses his poetry, noting that 'Poetry is sometimes seen as too artistic and not a good cause for blokes.'

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Awards

• 1975 AFI Award: Best Actor, for Sunday Too Far Away and Petersen
• 1980 AFI Award: Best Actor in a Lead Role, for Breaker Morant
• 1980 Cannes Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor, for Breaker Morant
• 1986 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the Australian film industry
• 1994 AFI Award: Raymond Longford Award
• 1998 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards: Special Achievement Award
• 2005 Inside Film Awards: Living Legend IF Award
• 2011 Australian Film Festival: Inductee into the Australian Film Walk of Fame