John Hurt
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
250
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
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
NOVA
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Golden Globe Awards
Merlin
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Great Performances
Alien
Play for Today
Snowpiercer
V for Vendetta
Natural World
GMTV
Contact
Who Do You Think You Are?
Parkinson
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Hercules
I, Claudius
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Gideon's Way
The Sweeney
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Valiant
Hellboy
Spaceballs
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Thumbelina
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Midnight Express
The Storyteller
Performance
Dogville
The Hollow Crown
Brute
Immortals
The Black Cauldron
Watership Down
Frankenstein Unbound
The Gruffalo
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Windprints
Wild Bill
The Hit
Only Lovers Left Alive
Hiroshima
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
The Climb
Break
Damascus Cover
The Skeleton Key
Monolith
The Elephant Man
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Shooting Dogs
The Lord of the Rings
King Ralph
White Mischief
Night Train
Manderlay
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
King Lear
Scandal
New York, I Love You
Night Crossing
Three Dangerous Ladies
The Journey
The Disappearance
Short Order
History of the World: Part I
The Proposition
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Deadline
The Field
Melancholia
Pride
Owning Mahowny
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
Outlander
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
Romeo.Juliet
Sinful Davey
The Last Panthers
The Limits of Control
Tabloid
The Gruffalo's Child
Recount
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
New Blood
Sunset People
Watership Down
Second Best
An Englishman in New York
Poison Candy
Champions
ChickLit
The Ghoul
Miranda
The Commissioner
A Ghost Story for Christmas
The Tigger Movie
Bait
Red Fox
Centenary: The BP Story
Great Moments in Aviation
The Confession
Partners
Masters of Science Fiction
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
A Man for All Seasons
Heaven's Gate
The Pied Piper
Labyrinth
The Peddler
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
If... Dog... Rabbit
Spectre
Lost Souls
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Bengali Night
Vincent
Crime and Punishment
Jake Speed
The Shout
HypaSpace
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The Oxford Murders
Jayne Mansfield's Car
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Rob Roy
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
The Osterman Weekend
Love at First Sight
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Boxes
The Hollywood Greats
The Jim Henson Hour
Love and Death on Long Island
Brighton Rock
Human Planet
10 Rillington Place
Aria
Jackie
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
44 Inch Chest
More Than Honey
The Wild and the Willing
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Planet Dinosaur
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Once Upon a Halloween
Dead Man
The Sailor from Gibraltar
From the Hip
Muse of Fire
The Plague Dogs
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
Sightseers
Success Is the Best Revenge
Krapp's Last Tape
The Alien Saga
I Dreamt I Woke Up
A.K.A Nadia
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
All the Little Animals
That Good Night
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
The Hunting of the Snark
In Love with Alma Cogan
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Journey to Knock
Live Aid
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Lapse of Memory
The World of Jim Henson
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
Whistle and I'll Come to You
My Name Is Lenny
Shaolin: Wheel of Life
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Before Winter Comes
Dark at Noon
East of Elephant Rock
Wessex Tales
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
The Alan Clark Diaries
Tender Loving Care
The Naked Civil Servant
Stream Line
This Is My Street
Behind Jim Jarmusch
Crime and Punishment
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
Picture Windows
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
You're Dead...
Lou
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
David Macaulay: Pyramid
After Darkness
Thames Film
The Final Reel
The Confession
Doctor Who at the Proms
On Borrowed Time
Lecture 21
Rocinante
Monolith
Inside the Actors Studio
Ballybrando
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Iceberg
Remembrance
The Playboy of the Western World
On Jupiter
Armchair Theatre
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction
Saigon Baby
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
Back to Utopia
Shadowing the Third Man
The Alchemist's Letter
Whaledreamers
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
Edge of the Universe
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
In Search of Gregory
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Snipist
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
Resident Alien
Frightmares
Sailcloth
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
Interview with John Hurt
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
Ayamé
Green Julia
