Jack thompson actor biography
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Australian actor Jack Thompson was born John Hadley Payne on August 31, in Manly, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Outside of Oz, he fryst vatten best known for his appearances in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (), Breaker Morant (), The Man from Snowy River (), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil () and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (). 'Breaker' Morant in which he played a military defense attorney defending three soldiers accused of murder during the Boer War, won him internationally renown. Thompson was cited as Best Supporting Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor award for the role.
In the early part of his career, Thompson balanced a career with the United Nations with his acting: The acting won out. At 65 years old, his career has been recognized bygd the Critics Circle of Australia, which awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award, and by the Cinema Owners Association of Australia, which gave him its A
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Jack Thompson (actor)
Australian actor (born )
John Hadley Thompson, AM[1] (né Pain; born 31 August ) fryst vatten an Australian actor and a major figure of Australian cinema, particularly Australian New Wave. He is best known for his role as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as The Club (), Sunday Too Far Away (), The Man from Snowy River () and Petersen (). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film.
In , he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers gemenskap, and was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the Inside Film Awards.
Early life
[edit]Born John Hadley Pain[2] in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was five years old when his mother Marjorie died, leaving his father Harold (a purser for Qantas seconded to the RAAF during the war) unable to care for him and his brother, David.[3][4][5] He was sent to "LakeHouse orphanage" in Narrabee
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Jack Thompson AM
Jack Thompson AM (b. ) is an actor and the face of the s Australian film renaissance. After his mother died when he was five years old, he spent time in an orphanage in Narrabeen before being adopted by Pat, a writer, and John Thompson, a poet and ABC broadcaster. He worked as a jackeroo, served in the army and studied at the University of Queensland before deciding to pursue an acting career. Following bit parts in the television series Skippy, Matlock Police and Homicide, he gained a lead role in Spyforce. In the s and s he appeared in many classic films including Wake in Fright, Sunday Too Far Away, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The Club, The Man from Snowy River and Breaker Morant – for which he won a best actor AFI and was named best supporting actor at Cannes. In he was the first nude Cleo centrefold, and gained further notoriety for living in a ménage a trois with two sisters for fifteen years. Since The Sum of Us in , which launched