John Jarratt Movies and Career Information

John Jarratt (born 5 August 1951) is an Australian actor. 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 concreter, who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. Both his parents were of Irish origin.. His 5xgreat grandfather, George Jarratt, born 1833, came from Croxton in Cambridgeshire, England, but his son, John, married an Irish girl, Mary Kelly. While in high school Jarrat 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 NIDA, the Australian national drama school 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 a young 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 Aussie soldier in Vietnam war movie The Odd Angry Shot, 1980. In the later 1980s Jarrat recognised he a had problem with binge drinking and related violence and joined Alcoholics