Jack Newby — The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Character Profile

About Jack Newby

A farmer who employs Jimmie. He treats his worker poorly and uses the arrival of Mort and Tabidgi as a pretext to withhold Jimmie's pay and provisions, directly triggering Jimmie's desperate and violent retaliation against his family.

Character Facts

Played by

Don Crosby

Appears in

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

Role

Supporting

More characters from The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

• Jimmie Blacksmith (Tom E. Lewis)
• Mort Blacksmith (Freddy Reynolds)
• Farrell (Ray Barrett)
• Rev. Neville (Jack Thompson)
• Dowie Steed (Peter Sumner)
• Smith (Gregory Apps)
• Shearer (Bryan Brown)
• Gilda Marshall (Angela Punch McGregor)
• Healey (Tim Robertson)
• Dud Edmonds (Ray Meagher)
• Man in Butcher Shop (Arthur Dignam)
• Mrs. McCready (Robyn Nevin)