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 |
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Most Rating | 5.996 |
Birthday | 1951-08-05 |
Place of Birth | Wongawilli, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As | John Jarrett, |
1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
7.218/758
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the g...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1977
Summer City
5/7
Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is anger...
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Summer City
2007
Rogue
6.387/661
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud isl...
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Rogue
2005
Wolf Creek
6.228/1107
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman, who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.
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Wolf Creek
2007
The Final Winter
4.8/3
Rugby league is arguably the toughest form of football on the planet played by men that play the game hard and live even harder. Set in Sydney in the...
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The Final Winter
1982
We of the Never Never
5.9/12
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexu...
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We of the Never Never
1979
The Odd Angry Shot
6.1/25
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp...
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The Odd Angry Shot
1978
Blue Fin
6/6
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of S...
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Blue Fin
1987
Dark Age
5.8/30
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local popul...
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Dark Age
1982
Next of Kin
6.365/96
After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.
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Next of Kin
2012
Shiver
3.979/24
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of othe...
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Shiver
2012
100 Bloody Acres
5.762/130
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg com...
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100 Bloody Acres
2010
Bad Behaviour
4.4/5
Emma and Peterson encounter their fierce predator Voyte Parker, a cop confronts his son's murderer, and a man finds his wife is cheating on him. Inter...
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Bad Behaviour
2013
Wolf Creek 2
6.397/615
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adven...
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Wolf Creek 2
1975
The Great MacArthy
5/3
Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South M...
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The Great MacArthy
1985
The Naked Country
3.5/2
Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to ek...
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The Naked Country
2011
Savages Crossing
3/11
When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from...
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Savages Crossing
2015
StalkHer
3.714/7
An obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding himself wounded then tied to a chair, Jack soon reali...
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StalkHer
Justice in a Smoking Gun
0/0
In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.
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Justice in a Smoking Gun
2008
Australia
6.593/2237
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to pro...
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Australia
2014
Jack Irish: Dead Point
6.9/30
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
1988
Midnight Dancer
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16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney ca...
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Midnight Dancer
1994
Talk
0/0
A day in the life of two women, writers of adult comics, whose intimate conversation is overheard by a total stranger
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Talk
1995
All Men Are Liars
5.3/3
Mick's father, Barry, sells the family piano, causing Mick's mother, Irene to leave. In order to raise enough money to buy the piano back, Mick dresse...
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All Men Are Liars
1984
The Settlement
0/0
Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-...
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The Settlement
2012
Django Unchained
8.2/25765
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Django Unchained
2010
Needle
5.3/51
College student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's fri...
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Needle
1996
Dead Heart
6/8
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives...
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Dead Heart
1987
Australian Dream
1/1
Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with sellin...
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Wolf Creek 3
0/0
An American family takes a dream trip to the Australian outback and soon draws the attention of notorious serial killer Mick Taylor. A hellish nightma...
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Wolf Creek 3
1978
Little Boy Lost
5/1
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers,...
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Little Boy Lost
2016
Observance
5/32
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a p...
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Observance
1978
The Sound of Love
6/1
A romance about two people who are both disabled. Racing car driver Dave and street-girl Eileen fall in love after he has a car accident.
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The Sound of Love
1988
Touch the Sun: Top Enders
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Two children get stranded in the desert in Australia's Top End.
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Touch the Sun: Top Enders
1993
Joh's Jury
7/1
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Joh's Jury
1991
Pirates Island
8/2
Pirate TV Movie from 1991
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Pirates Island
1978
Plunge Into Darkness
4/3
An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help whil...
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Plunge Into Darkness
1982
Fluteman
4/1
When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition...
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Fluteman
1984
Crime of the Decade
0/0
A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
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Crime of the Decade
2015
Frenzy
0/0
After a bungled prison bus breakout 6 desperate female mental patients find themselves not only on the run from the law but also a ferocious forest cu...
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Frenzy
2021
Christmas Down Under
2/2
Tightly wound Ellie flies to Australia and enlists the help of an Aboriginal Tour Guide and a YouTubefamous Uber driver to find her husband and his ec...
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Christmas Down Under
2018
Boar
5.113/93
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. I...
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Boar
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
6.882/85
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...
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Not Quite Hollywood
2006
The Making of 'Wolf Creek'
5/3
An overview of the making of Wolf Creek (2005).
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The Making of 'Wolf Creek'
2016
Red Dog: True Blue
6.5/87
When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will...
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Red Dog: True Blue
1978
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
6.8/63
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrif...
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2021
The Possessed
6.26/52
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's...
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The Possessed
1992
The Time Game
4.8/5
13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his school. He is sent to stay with his grandparents over Chris...
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The Time Game
1983
Chase Through the Night
7.5/2
A group of hardened criminals on the lam take refuge in the badlands of the Australian outback. When they come across a small settlement, they take ho...
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Chase Through the Night
2021
Love You Like That
7.6/10
Cupids arrow has hit the coastal town of Seafront Sands. A lonely soul will discover a secret about the love we all share for the first time.
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Love You Like That
2017
Hero
8.2/2
In the quiet and picturesque Yarramalong Valley, Officers Henry and Brooks find a young woman wandering by the roadside, distraught from events she ha...
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Hero
2023
What About Sal?
0/0
With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his m...
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What About Sal?
Double or Nothing
0/0
Two cousins embark on a high-energy race against the clock to find $50k when the mob discover one of them has been skimming from their Gold Coast work...
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