Australian actor, Jack Thompson has a huge filmography; he has starred in over 100 movies in his entire career. He began his tv career in 1968 when he starred in the soap opera Motel. He went on to appear in several tv shows including Riptide, Woobinda, Animal Doctor, Skippy, The Rovers, Division 4, Homicide, Matlock Police, and more.
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He is also known for several movies and tv shows. Some of them include Broken Arrow (1996), Excess Baggage (1997), Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997), The Magic Pudding (2000), Yolngu Boy (2001), South Pacific (2001), Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), Oyster Farmer (2005), The Good Man (2006), Bastard Boys (2007), Ten Empty (2008), Mao’s Last Dancer (2009), Rake (2010), The Great Gatsby (2013), Mystery Road (2013), Around the Block (2013), Devil’s Playground (2014), Ruben Guthrie (2015), The Light Between Oceans (2016), Don’t Tell (2017), Blue World Order (2017), Swinging Safari (2018), and more.
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Thompson has bagged several awards such as AFI Award: Best Actor (1975), AFI Award: Best Actor (1980), Cannes Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor (1980), Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the Australian film industry (1986), AFI: Raymond Longford Award (1994), Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards: Special Achievement Award (1998), Inside Film Awards: Living Legend IF Award (2005), and more.


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