John Jarratt
Jarratt was born and grew up in Wongawilli, a small rural town near Wollongong, New South Wales and later in the Snowy Mountains area. Jarratt’s father was a coal miner and later a concreter, who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. His 5x great-grandfather, George Jarratt, born 1833, came from Croxton in Cambridgeshire, England; his son, John, married a Mary Kelly from Ireland. While in high school, Jarratt directed and acted in a school play which was a great success and led to his school principal recommending him for an acting career. Jarratt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973. His screen debut was in The Great Macarthy. He also appeared in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1975 and Summer City in 1977 with Mel Gibson. Jarratt had the lead role in the mini series The Last Outlaw playing Ned Kelly in 1979. He played a major supporting role as a young Australian soldier in Vietnam war movie The Odd Angry Shot, 1980. In the late 1980s, Jarratt recognised he had a problem with binge drinking and related violence and joined Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation in which he continues to be active. In the 1990s, he was a presenter on the lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens with then-wife Noni Hazlehurst. He had guest roles in Inspector Morse, Police Rescue, Blue Murder, Water Rats and Blue Heelers in the 1990s and 2000s. He joined the cast of McLeod’s Daughters in 2001, and left the show in 2006. In 2010, Jarratt appeared in a commercial for Husqvarna. In May 2013, Jarratt filmed a guest star role in the third instalment of the ABC telemovie series, Jack Irish: Dead Point. In 2005, he had a major role in the Australian film Wolf Creek, playing the villain Mick Taylor.[5] In 2007, he appeared in two films, Rogue and The Final Winter. Jarratt also had a small role in the 2008 film, Australia, as a soldier. In 2008, Jarratt launched his own film production company, Winnah Films. Winnah’s first feature film, Savages Crossing (originally carrying the working title Flood) went into principal photography outside Ipswich, Queensland in February. In 2009, he appears as the father of a teenage girl via phone in Telstra’s “Next G” commercials. In 2010, Jarratt starred in the ensemble exploitation extravaganza, Bad Behaviour, written and directed by Joseph Sims. In the same year, Jarratt also had a role in the supernatural horror movie Needle. He made a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained in 2012, appearing as an employee of the Le Quint Dickie Mining Company alongside Tarantino himself, both appearing with Australian accents. In February 2013, Jarratt reprised his role as Mick Taylor, filming the Wolf Creek sequel, Wolf Creek 2, with Matt Hearn producing and Greg McLean directing. The film was released on 20 February 2014. In January 2014, a new thriller called StalkHer began filming on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The film is co-directed by Jarratt, who also stars in the production. The producer of the film is ‘OZPIX’, a production company partly owned by Jarratt. Filming was completed in February 2014, and will screen later in the year.
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal...
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Wolf Creek 2
as Mick TaylorLured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the...
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Wolf Creek
as Mick TaylorStranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman, who offers to fix...
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Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling...
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Rogue
as RussellWhen a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
as Albert CrundallIn the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day,...
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Not Quite Hollywood
as SelfAs Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art...
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Boar
as KenIn the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with...
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Next of Kin
as BarneyAfter Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem...
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The Possessed
as Jacob ChandlerA man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge...
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
as MichaelsThe true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture...
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100 Bloody Acres
as BurkeReg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret...
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Red Dog: True Blue
as Lang HancockWhen eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western...
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The Odd Angry Shot
as BillA group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter...
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Wolf Creek 3
as Mick TaylorA family of American tourists wander innocently into Taylor's hunting grounds. When the parents...
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Needle
as Paul, the CoronerCollege student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a...
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Shiver
as Vinnie RoodWendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a...
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Summer City
as SandyFour friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among...
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Dark Age
as Steve HarrisIn the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant...
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Observance
as SnitchIn the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing...
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
as Sen. Sgt Laurie OlsenJack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a...
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We of the Never Never
as DandyBased on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true...
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Dead Heart
as CharlieRay Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that...
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Savages Crossing
as PhilWhen a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the...
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Love You Like That
as RoyCupids arrow has hit the coastal town of Seafront Sands. A lonely soul will discover a secret...
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Blue Fin
as Sam SnellBased on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an...
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Christmas Down Under
as Robert ParkerTightly wound Ellie flies to Australia and enlists the help of an Aboriginal Tour Guide and a...
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What About Sal?
as TommyWith his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a...
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The Final Winter
as ColgateRugby league is arguably the toughest form of football on the planet played by men that play the...
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Crime of the Decade
as TerryA young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
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Frenzy
as Benjamin LightbringerAfter a bungled prison bus breakout 6 desperate female mental patients find themselves not only...
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The Making of 'Wolf Creek'
as SelfAn overview of the making of Wolf Creek (2005).
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Chase Through the Night
as ClurryA group of hardened criminals on the lam take refuge in the badlands of the Australian outback....
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Midnight Dancer
as Graeme16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends...
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StalkHer
as JackAn obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding...
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The Time Game
as Joe13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his...
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Joh's Jury
as KevDramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Plunge Into Darkness
as TobyAn ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a...
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Little Boy Lost
as Vic TannerThe True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a...
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Hero
as Officer HenryIn the quiet and picturesque Yarramalong Valley, Officers Henry and Brooks find a young woman...
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The Naked Country
as Mick ConradFar North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his...
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Bad Behaviour
as RickyEmma and Peterson encounter their fierce predator Voyte Parker, a cop confronts his son's...
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Fluteman
as FlutemanWhen the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to...
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Talk
as MacA day in the life of two women, writers of adult comics, whose intimate conversation is...
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Australian Dream
as ToddDorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels...
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The Settlement
as MartinDown-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking...
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The Great MacArthy
as MacArthyMacarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant...
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Touch the Sun: Top Enders
as JackTwo children get stranded in the desert in Australia's Top End.
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The Ninth Order
as Colton HillJada's estranged father is murdered. His father's death draws her to an ancient Sect, led by...
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Double or Nothing
as ColTwo cousins embark on a high-energy race against the clock to find $50k when the mob discover...
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Inspector Morse
as Sergeant Scott HumphriesInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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McLeod's Daughters
as uncreditedWhen Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the...
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McLeod's Daughters
as Terry DodgeWhen Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the...
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Blue Heelers
as Charlie GloverBlue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue...
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Water Rats
as Colin McGuireWater Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Siren
as Naval GuardThe coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When...
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Police Rescue
as DavePolice Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales...
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Wolf Creek
as Mick TaylorAn anthology series which centers on different characters being targeted by crazed serial killer...
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Bluey
as Walter KiteAt Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, Sgt. "Bluey" Hills, unable to work within the...
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Blue Murder
as Jack RichardsonSet in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between...
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The Last Outlaw
as Ned KellyAn unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask...
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Outriders
as uncreditedOutriders was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Nine Network...
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Territory Cops
as NarratorHold onto your Akubra's and watch out for those crocs because when you’re a Territory Cop, no...
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Father, Dear Father
as GeorgeThe hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia...
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