Jack Thompson Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Jack Thompson Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Jack Thompson is an award-winning Australian actor, who is a major figure in Australian cinema, particularly the Australian New Wave.

Jack Thompson is best known as the lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including classics such as Petersen in 1974, Sunday Too Far Away in 1975, The Club in 1980 and The Man from Snowy River (1982).

In 2002 he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society

Thompson has won both Cannes and AFI acting awards. He received a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards.

Thompson was the first naked man at the center of Cleo in 1972. He has also appeared in television commercials, including as the face of the Bank of Melbourne for a decade, and for Claytons. Thompson is featured in a series of Australian poetry recordings, reciting poems by Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, CJ Dennis, Patrick Joseph Hartigan (aka John O’Brien) and John O’Grady. (see discography below). Interviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald, he explains his love of poetry, noting that “poetry is sometimes seen as too artistic and perhaps not a suitable interest for guys”.