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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wongawilli, New South Wales, Australia, 1951-08-05

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	The Great MacArthy	MacArthy	50
2	1975	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Albert Crundall	72
3	1977	The Tree		0
4	1977	Summer City	Sandy	49
5	1978	Plunge Into Darkness	Toby	40
6	1978	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith	Michaels	68
7	1978	Little Boy Lost	Vic Tanner	50
8	1978	Blue Fin	Sam Snell	60
9	1978	The Sound of Love	Dave	60
10	1979	The Odd Angry Shot	Bill	61
11	1982	Next of Kin	Barney	63
12	1982	We of the Never Never	Dandy	59
13	1982	Fluteman	Fluteman	40
14	1983	Chase Through the Night	Clurry	75
15	1984	The Settlement	Martin	0
16	1984	Crime of the Decade	Terry	0
17	1985	The Naked Country	Mick Conrad	35
18	1987	Australian Dream	Todd	10
19	1987	Dark Age	Steve Harris	56
20	1988	Touch the Sun: Top Enders	Jack	0
21	1988	Midnight Dancer	Graeme	25
22	1991	Pirates Island	The Jackel	80
23	1992	The Time Game	Joe	48
24	1993	Joh's Jury	Kev	70
25	1994	Talk	Mac	0
26	1995	All Men Are Liars	Barry	53
27	1996	Dead Heart	Charlie	60
28	2005	Wolf Creek	Mick Taylor	62
29	2006	The Making of 'Wolf Creek'	Self	50
30	2007	The Final Winter	Colgate	48
31	2007	Rogue	Russell	63
32	2008	Not Quite Hollywood	Self	69
33	2008	Australia	Sergeant	66
34	2010	Needle	Paul, the Coroner	52
35	2010	Bad Behaviour	Ricky	44
36	2011	Savages Crossing	Phil	30
37	2012	Shiver	Vinnie Rood	37
38	2012	100 Bloody Acres	Burke	58
39	2012	Django Unchained	The Le Quint Dickey Mining Co. Employee	82
40	2013	Wolf Creek 2	Mick Taylor	64
41	2014	Jack Irish: Dead Point	Sen. Sgt Laurie Olsen	68
42	2015	StalkHer	Jack	37
43	2017	Hero	Officer Henry	72
44	2021	Love You Like That	Roy	69
45		Justice in a Smoking Gun	Samuel Foster	0
46		Wolf Creek: Legacy	Mick Taylor	0
47	2015	Frenzy	Benjamin Lightbringer	0
48	2016	Observance	Snitch	50
49	2016	Red Dog: True Blue	Lang Hancock	65
50	2018	Boar	Ken	52
51	2021	The Possessed	Jacob Chandler	62
52	2021	Christmas Down Under	Robert Parker	20
53	2024	What About Sal?	Tommy	100
54	2025	Double or Nothing	Col	0
55		The Ninth Order	Colton Hill	0
56		Shed	The Stranger	0
57		Zombie Plane	John Jarratt	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	Bluey	Walter Kite	60
2	1978	Father, Dear Father	George	50
3	1980	The Last Outlaw	Ned Kelly	50
4	1987	Inspector Morse	Sergeant Scott Humphries	78
5	1991	Police Rescue	Dave	64
6	1993	Blue Heelers	Charlie Glover	66
7	1995	Blue Murder	Jack Richardson	58
8	1996	Water Rats	Colin McGuire	66
9	2001	Outriders		0
10	2001	McLeod's Daughters		73
11	2001	McLeod's Daughters	Terry Dodge	73
12	2012	Territory Cops	Narrator	70
13	2016	Wolf Creek	Mick Taylor	70
14	2018	Siren	Naval Guard	77

John Jarratt

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