Jack Thompson
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Jack Thompson (born August 31, 1940) is an Australian actor. Thompson was born in Sydney, New South Wales. Despite a long career in Australian film and television he is not well known outside the country. Thompson recently appeared in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones as Cliegg Lars.
He is best known in Australia for the movies 'Breaker' Morant, The Man From Snowy River and the 1970s television show Spyforce. Other movies he has appeared in include:
- Original Sin
- My Brother Jack
- South Pacific (2001)
- Sunday too Far Away
- The Sum of Us
- Yolngu Boy (credited as Gurkula)
- Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil
Jack Thompson is also the name of an attorney; see Jack Thompson (attorney).