FrameThrower · Actors · Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson
7 films · 375 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1971–2016
Born 31 August 1940 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Jack Thompson, AM is an 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 an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including such classics as Wake in Fright (1971), 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.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 375 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1971–2016
- Member of the Order of Australia1986
How their films are shot
Measured across 375 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jack takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Jack takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 375 frames from Jack Thompson's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.