John Hurt
1940-01-22 ( 85 years old ) in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

Sir John Vincent Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), notably included a scene where an alien creature burst out of his chest, named by several publications as one of the most memorable moments in cinema history. Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980). Other significant roles during the 1980s included Bob Champion in biopic Champions (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field (1990) and played the primary villain, James Graham, in the epic adventure Rob Roy (1995). His later films include the Harry Potter film series (2001–11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key (2005), western The Proposition (2005), political thriller V for Vendetta (2005), action adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), sci-fi action Outlander (2008) and the Cold War espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York (2009), which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination. He portrayed the War Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". He possessed what was described as the "most distinctive voice in Britain", likened by The Observer to "nicotine sieved through dirty, moonlit gravel". His voice acting career encompassed films such as Watership Down (1978), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982), The Black Cauldron (1985), Dogville (2003) and Planet Dinosaur (2011) as well as BBC TV series Merlin (2008–2012). In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema". He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.

Movies

Doctor Who at the Proms 2024-12-24
Lynch/Oz 2023-05-15
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2021-03-26
Ayamé 2018-08-25
Damascus Cover 2017-10-23
That Good Night 2017-06-20
My Name Is Lenny 2017-06-09
The Journey 2017-03-30
Jackie 2016-12-02
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets 2016-11-13
Back to Utopia 2016-11-06
The Final Reel 2016-09-09
ChickLit 2016-09-02
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song 2015-12-25
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie 2015-07-17
A.K.A Nadia 2015-07-01
Break 2015-05-01
The Alchemist's Letter 2015-04-21
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces 2015-01-01
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 2014-08-31
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 2014-08-25
Hercules 2014-07-23
Only Lovers Left Alive 2013-12-12
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty 2013-11-23
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro 2013-11-23
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 2013-11-23
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot 2013-11-23
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor 2013-11-14
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips 2013-09-28
Muse of Fire 2013-09-26
Snowpiercer 2013-08-01
Jayne Mansfield's Car 2013-07-25
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre 2013-06-06
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict 2013-05-24
Sightseers 2012-11-30
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers 2012-08-19
More Than Honey 2012-08-11
The Snipist 2012-05-24
The Gruffalo's Child 2011-12-25
Immortals 2011-11-10
On Borrowed Time 2011-11-04
In Love with Alma Cogan 2011-10-04
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011-09-16
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011-07-12
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes 2011-07-09
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa 2011-07-05
Melancholia 2011-05-26
The Confession 2011-05-02
Sailcloth 2011-01-01
Whistle and I'll Come to You 2010-12-24
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie 2010-12-10
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010-11-17
Love at First Sight 2010-11-16
Brighton Rock 2010-09-13
Behind Jim Jarmusch 2010-09-01
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures 2010-08-04
Lou 2010-06-17
The Gruffalo 2009-12-25
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World 2009-12-15
Ballybrando 2009-12-12
44 Inch Chest 2009-10-08
Remembrance 2009-09-06
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009-09-05
The Limits of Control 2009-05-01
An Englishman in New York 2009-02-07
Lecture 21 2008-10-17
New York, I Love You 2008-09-06
Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008-07-11
Recount 2008-05-25
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008-05-21
Outlander 2008-04-24
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen 2008-04-05
The Oxford Murders 2008-01-18
Boxes 2007-06-06
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron 2007-03-10
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas 2007-02-03
Interview with John Hurt 2007-01-22
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006-09-13
Whaledreamers 2006-06-15
The Plot Against Harold Wilson 2006-03-16
Shooting Dogs 2006-03-08
V for Vendetta 2006-02-23
The Proposition 2005-10-06
Once Upon a Halloween 2005-09-26
Hiroshima 2005-08-06
The Skeleton Key 2005-07-29
Manderlay 2005-06-03
Valiant 2005-03-25
Short Order 2005-01-01
Shadowing the Third Man 2004-10-11
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation 2004-07-27
Pride 2004-06-21
Hellboy 2004-04-02
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' 2004-01-22
The Beast Within: Making Alien 2003-12-02
Dogville 2003-05-21
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill 2003-05-08
Owning Mahowny 2003-05-02
The Alien Saga 2002-11-13
I, Claudius: A Television Epic 2002-09-30
Crime and Punishment 2002-06-01
Bait 2002-02-20
Miranda 2002-01-18
Shaolin: Wheel of Life 2001-12-11
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed 2001-12-11
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001-11-16
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001-04-18
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm 2001-04-07
Tabloid 2001-01-01
Lost Souls 2000-10-13
Krapp's Last Tape 2000-09-08
The Tigger Movie 2000-02-11
New Blood 1999-11-15
You're Dead... 1999-10-01
If... Dog... Rabbit 1999-09-29
All the Little Animals 1999-07-09
Love and Death on Long Island 1998-07-03
The Climb 1998-03-11
The Commissioner 1998-02-22
Night Train 1998-01-01
Bandyta 1997-11-07
Contact 1997-07-11
Tender Loving Care 1996-05-16
Dead Man 1995-12-23
Saigon Baby 1995-12-16
Wild Bill 1995-12-01
On Jupiter 1995-08-03
Rob Roy 1995-04-13
Two Nudes Bathing 1995-03-24
The World of Jim Henson 1994-11-23
Second Best 1994-09-30
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp 1994-08-17
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1994-05-13
Great Moments in Aviation 1994-05-01
Thumbelina 1994-03-30
Monolith 1993-09-16
Six Characters in Search of An Author 1992-12-12
Dark at Noon 1992-10-01
Red Fox 1991-12-08
I Dreamt I Woke Up 1991-11-16
Journey to Knock 1991-09-17
Lapse of Memory 1991-06-02
King Ralph 1991-02-15
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool 1990-12-17
Frankenstein Unbound 1990-11-02
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch 1990-10-19
The Field 1990-09-21
Resident Alien 1990-09-14
Windprints 1990-06-29
Who Bombed Birmingham? 1990-04-22
Romeo.Juliet 1990-01-01
Little Sweetheart 1989-10-19
Scandal 1989-03-03
David Macaulay: Pyramid 1989-01-04
The Bengali Night 1988-10-26
Deadline 1988-01-01
White Mischief 1987-11-10
Vincent 1987-10-08
Spaceballs 1987-06-24
Aria 1987-05-27
The Hunting of the Snark 1987-04-01
From the Hip 1987-02-06
Monolith 1987-01-01
Iceberg 1987-01-01
Frightmares 1987-01-01
Rocinante 1986-11-01
Thames Film 1986-08-10
Jake Speed 1986-05-30
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima 1985-12-03
The Black Cauldron 1985-07-24
Live Aid 1985-07-13
After Darkness 1985-02-01
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984-11-09
The Hit 1984-09-07
Success Is the Best Revenge 1984-05-26
Champions 1984-04-20
Sunset People 1984-03-03
The Osterman Weekend 1983-10-14
King Lear 1983-04-03
The Plague Dogs 1982-10-01
Paul McCartney - Take It Away 1982-06-21
Partners 1982-04-30
Night Crossing 1982-02-05
History of the World: Part I 1981-06-12
Heaven's Gate 1980-11-19
The Elephant Man 1980-10-09
An Evening with Quentin Crisp 1980-01-01
Alien 1979-05-25
The Lord of the Rings 1978-11-15
Watership Down 1978-10-14
Midnight Express 1978-08-31
The Shout 1978-06-16
The Disappearance 1977-11-30
East of Elephant Rock 1977-10-22
Three Dangerous Ladies 1977-06-05
Spectre 1977-05-21
Stream Line 1976-05-06
The Peddler 1976-03-23
The Naked Civil Servant 1975-12-17
The Ghoul 1975-07-11
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs 1974-06-11
The Playboy of the Western World 1974-01-01
The Pied Piper 1972-12-27
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins 1971-07-29
10 Rillington Place 1971-02-10
In Search of Gregory 1969-11-01
Sinful Davey 1969-02-10
Before Winter Comes 1969-01-17
The Sailor from Gibraltar 1967-01-01
A Man for All Seasons 1966-12-13
This Is My Street 1964-01-15
The Wild and the Willing 1962-10-16
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