What is Jack Thompson (actor)?
[[File:Jack Thompson speaks at the media (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Thompson in 2014]] '''Jack Thompson''' {{small|[[Order of Australia|AM]]}} (born '''John Hadley Pain'''; 31 August 1940) is an [[Australia]]n actor. He is best known for his roles in [[Australian cinema|Australian movies]] such as ''[[Sunday Too Far Away]]'' (1975), ''[[Breaker Morant (movie)|Breaker Morant]]'' (1980), ''[[The Club (1980 movie)|The Club]]'' (1980) and ''[[The Man from Snowy River (1982 movie)|The Man from Snowy River]]'' (1982). In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the [[Australian Cinematographers Society]] (ACS). Thompson was born in [[Manly, New South Wales|Manly]], a suburb of [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]]. He went to the [[University of Queensland]] in [[Brisbane]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/actor-activist-philanthropist-scholar-the-extraordinary-life-of-jack-thompson-80/news-story/d250ddd9195a038169806343feb3c78d|title=Jack Thompson, renaissance man|work=[[The Australian]]|author=Lehmann, Megan|date=16 October 2020|access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> He has two children. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Jack}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Actors from Sydney]] [[Category:Australian movie actors]] [[Category:Australian television actors]] [[Category:Order of Australia]] {{actor-stub}}