Jack Thompson at the Bands for Burma concert at The Basement

19th of May 2008

Jack Thompson with his Violinist friend

Jack and Musicians, Bands for Burma concert

BANDS FOR BURMA feat. TIM FREEDMAN, DANIEL MIFSUD, MAHALIA BARNES, ANDY BULL & THE HANDS

Photos taken by Patricia Feijoo

Jack Thompson, Patricia and Greg Tingle from Media Man Australia

Bands for Burma Concert, The Basement 2008

Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson, Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at the University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002 he was made honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including popular classics Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. (Credit: Wikipedia).

Jack with Russell Crowe in the movie The Sum of Us (1994)

Jack Thompson IMDB ~ Internet Movie Database link

Australia The Movie

Jack as Kipling Flynn

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The Daily Telegraph reported, "In a role almost seems penned especially for him, Thompson has been announced to play Kipling Flynn, a drunken accountant and flamboyant bon vivant."

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Jack Thompson will play cattle station book keeper, Kipling Flynn, and was quoted as saying, "He's very different to anything you have seen me play in the past. Baz has pushed me a little here and a little there, and we have created this extraordinary book keeper, a drinker who is somewhere between a total tragedy and a struggling spirit. There's a comic edge to him, too. It's been very exciting." Thompson also said, "Baz is attacking this film on a fabulous scale. Perhaps it will see a revival for the Australian film industry. I was talking to Hugh Jackman and I said I was amazed at the scale of the production and that I thought it would be a landmark Australian film. And he leaned over and whispered, 'Yeah. And you know what? We're in it'." (Credit Interview Australian Women's Weekly, January 2008)

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