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Jackman is shown linking hands with a man and pulling him
from a fast-flowing channel on to a sandbar, where the water is
shallow, in television footage broadcast by the Nine Network.
The network said Jackman later helped his own son, Oscar, 15,
from the same current.
Peter Adam, who told Nine he was the man Jackman helped, said he
wasn't rescued by the film star.
"He wasn't rescuing me, I was assisting him to get his daughter
up to the sandbar. He then grabbed my hand to get us up," Adam
said.
The actor is also shown beckoning other swimmers to shore, away
from a rip current flowing out to sea.
Jackman was at the beach with his family, Sydney's Sunday
Telegraph newspaper reported. Witness Lynzey Murphy told the
paper that surf conditions changed quickly, but that Jackman
stayed calm.
"When we got in the water 20 minutes earlier it was fine. Then
the water just came up suddenly," she said.
"Hugh just pulled them calmly on to the sandbar. He then said:
'All right, we are going to walk towards the flags.'"
A lifeguard told the paper that the beach was later closed
because of dangerous surf.
(Reporting by Tom Westbrook; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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