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).
