John Hurt
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
262
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-01-22
Day of death
2017-01-25 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
John Hurt
Biography
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.
Known For
Doctor Who
Golden Globe Awards
Great Performances
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
NOVA
Merlin
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Alien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Parkinson
Play for Today
Natural World
The Sweeney
The Hollow Crown
GMTV
Who Do You Think You Are?
Snowpiercer
Poison Candy
Owning Mahowny
V for Vendetta
I, Claudius
Scandal
Manderlay
New York, I Love You
Hercules
Brute
Performance
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
King Ralph
Windprints
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
New Blood
The Gruffalo
Contact
Night Crossing
Champions
The Lord of the Rings
ChickLit
Second Best
Spaceballs
That Good Night
The Skeleton Key
Miranda
Thumbelina
Hellboy
King Lear
Valiant
Frankenstein Unbound
The Storyteller
White Mischief
Masters of Science Fiction
Spectre
Heaven's Gate
This Is My Street
Immortals
I Dreamt I Woke Up
Red Fox
Jake Speed
Sunset People
Gideon's Way
Break
Romeo.Juliet
Hiroshima
The Bengali Night
Partners
The Elephant Man
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Monolith
Vincent
The Alien Saga
Tabloid
Muse of Fire
The World of Jim Henson
Dogville
Melancholia
From the Hip
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Dark at Noon
Outlander
Midnight Express
The Naked Civil Servant
Dead Man
Pride
Boxes
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Behind Jim Jarmusch
Night Train
The Disappearance
Short Order
History of the World: Part I
The Black Cauldron
You're Dead...
Bait
The Tigger Movie
The Peddler
Whaledreamers
Labyrinth
Love at First Sight
Sinful Davey
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
The Hollywood Greats
Jackie
Watership Down
Rocinante
Only Lovers Left Alive
Ballybrando
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
HypaSpace
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
The Last Panthers
The Proposition
Human Planet
A Man for All Seasons
Drama 61-67
Drama 61-67
Shooting Dogs
Shaolin: Wheel of Life
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Confession
Rob Roy
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Planet Dinosaur
The Snipist
Watership Down
David Macaulay: Pyramid
The Plague Dogs
The Oxford Murders
Wild Bill
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The Jim Henson Hour
The Alan Clark Diaries
Lou
The Hit
Lost Souls
Picture Windows
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
The Limits of Control
Tender Loving Care
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Live Aid
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
On Borrowed Time
Aria
The Field
Recount
Sightseers
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
The Shout
10 Rillington Place
Crime and Punishment
The Gruffalo's Child
The Osterman Weekend
The Confession
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
44 Inch Chest
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Ayamé
Saigon Baby
Inside the Actors Studio
Wessex Tales
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
All the Little Animals
Brighton Rock
More Than Honey
The Pied Piper
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Damascus Cover
Success Is the Best Revenge
Thames Film
Love and Death on Long Island
My Name Is Lenny
Monolith
The Journey
Doctor Who at the Proms
Remembrance
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
Armchair Theatre
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Before Winter Comes
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Crime and Punishment
Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
The Commissioner
Once Upon a Halloween
Lecture 21
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
An Englishman in New York
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
Iceberg
Three Dangerous Ladies
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
The Alchemist's Letter
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Edge of the Universe
The Hunting of the Snark
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
If... Dog... Rabbit
The Ghoul
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Deadline
Back to Utopia
Whistle and I'll Come to You
The Climb
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
The Wild and the Willing
Frightmares
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
A.K.A Nadia
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Resident Alien
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Interview with John Hurt
The Final Reel
Sailcloth
In Search of Gregory
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
The Storyteller: A Story Short
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
Great Moments in Aviation
Krapp's Last Tape
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
Lapse of Memory
The Storyteller: Fearnot
Stream Line
The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
After Darkness
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
East of Elephant Rock
In Love with Alma Cogan
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Journey to Knock
On Jupiter
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
The Storyteller: The True Bride
Centenary: The BP Story
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
Green Julia
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
The Playboy of the Western World
Who Bombed Birmingham?
The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
Shadowing the Third Man
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
