John Hurt

Acting · 4.2 popularity

Age

Movies

228

Born: January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017
From: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
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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.

Works

228 films

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

20017.9

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Alien

19798.2

V for Vendetta

20067.9

Hercules

20145.8

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

20086.0

Contact

19977.4

Snowpiercer

20136.9

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

20067.4

Spaceballs

19876.9

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

20116.6

Hellboy

20046.7

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

20086.8

Immortals

20116.1

The Elephant Man

19808.0

The Field

19907.0

The Skeleton Key

20056.6

Nineteen Eighty-Four

19846.8

Thumbelina

19946.5

The Black Cauldron

19856.4

Dogville

20037.8

The Tigger Movie

20006.7

Midnight Express

19787.4

Dead Man

19957.3

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

20106.1

The Lord of the Rings

19786.6

Outlander

20086.5

Valiant

20055.7

New York, I Love You

20086.0

Melancholia

20117.2

Rob Roy

19956.7

Heaven's Gate

19806.7

The Gruffalo

20097.3

Jackie

20166.5

Lost Souls

20005.1

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

20138.2

Only Lovers Left Alive

20137.2

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

20016.0

A Man for All Seasons

19667.3

The Gruffalo's Child

20116.9

Watership Down

19787.2

King Ralph

19915.4

Wild Bill

19955.7

Frankenstein Unbound

19905.8

Manderlay

20056.9

The Bengali Night

19886.6

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

20076.3

Scandal

19896.0

Night Crossing

19826.2

The Oxford Murders

20086.0

The Proposition

20057.0

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

Jake Speed

19864.6

Shooting Dogs

20067.5

History of the World: Part I

19816.7

The Plague Dogs

19827.8

The Hit

19846.5

Saigon Baby

19959.0

The Shout

19786.0

White Mischief

19876.1

Live Aid

19857.9

Sightseers

20126.3

Owning Mahowny

20036.8

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

Krapp's Last Tape

20007.4

Second Best

19946.8

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

19944.4

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Doctor Who at the Proms

20247.2

All the Little Animals

19996.0

Aria

19875.3

The Osterman Weekend

19835.6

Miranda

20025.5

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie

20156.2

Brighton Rock

20105.7

Bait

20028.0

Wimbledon The Official Film 2014

201410.0

Recount

20086.8

The World of Jim Henson

19947.4

Jayne Mansfield's Car

20135.7

The Naked Civil Servant

19756.7

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing

19954.0

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers

20128.1

A Dinner of Herbs

1988

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

20158.0

The Alien Saga

20026.3

Pride

20046.1

The Limits of Control

20096.0

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie

20105.8

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

20137.8

Love and Death on Long Island

19986.3

Muse of Fire

20136.5

The Wild and the Willing

19626.0

10 Rillington Place

19717.3

Damascus Cover

20175.5

Short Order

20055.1

44 Inch Chest

20095.4

Lou

20106.8

The Confession

20116.6

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

20138.0

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

20139.0

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

The Journey

20176.3

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation

20046.9

Once Upon a Halloween

20056.2

Sinful Davey

19695.3

Ballybrando

200910.0

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

Vincent

19876.5

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0

Tender Loving Care

19963.4

Boxes

20075.3

The Storyteller: The Luck Child

1988

King Lear

19836.7

The Pied Piper

19726.0

Hiroshima

20057.2

The Disappearance

19775.6

V for Vendetta: Unmasked

20068.0

The Commissioner

19986.0

New Blood

19995.5

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

20027.0

An Englishman in New York

20096.4

More Than Honey

20127.3

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre

2013

You're Dead...

19996.8

I Dreamt I Woke Up

19917.3

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen

2008

The Beast Within: Making Alien

20038.2

Great Moments in Aviation

19944.9

Whaledreamers

20065.5

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

20255.0

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

20138.3

Tabloid

20015.0

That Good Night

20176.9

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

Partners

19825.5

On Jupiter

1995

The Sailor from Gibraltar

19675.8

From the Hip

19875.9

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow

1988

Three Dangerous Ladies

19776.0

The Hunting of the Snark

19878.0

The Ghoul

19755.0

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

19853.5

Little Sweetheart

19895.6

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

19907.5

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

19715.0

Dark at Noon

19926.8

Brute

19975.7

The Final Reel

20166.0

The Storyteller: The True Bride

1988

Ayamé

2018

Henry Fonda for President

20257.0

The Peddler

1976

Whistle and I'll Come to You

20105.7

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro

201310.0

The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death

1988

Before Winter Comes

19696.0

Rocinante

19869.0

Behind Jim Jarmusch

2010

Remembrance

2009

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

20017.3

Champions

19846.6

The Snipist

20129.0

Who Bombed Birmingham?

19908.5

Iceberg

1987

If... Dog... Rabbit

19994.5

Success Is the Best Revenge

19846.5

Thames Film

1986

Spectre

19776.0

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

20016.5

Windprints

19906.5

The Island

1976

Lecture 21

20086.1

Love at First Sight

20107.7

Shadowing the Third Man

20046.6

The Plot Against Harold Wilson

2006

On Borrowed Time

20115.3

Red Fox

19916.0

Green Julia

1971

The Climb

19987.1

My Name Is Lenny

20175.8

The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant

1988

The Playboy of the Western World

19747.0

Monolith

19934.6

The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets

2016

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

19948.0

Centenary: The BP Story

2009

The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog

1988

Break

20157.5

ChickLit

20165.4

An Evening with Quentin Crisp

19809.0

The Alchemist's Letter

20156.8

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

2009

Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool

199010.0

In Love with Alma Cogan

20117.0

Paul McCartney - Take It Away

1982

Six Characters in Search of An Author

19926.0

Journey to Knock

199110.0

Night Train

19987.0

Deadline

19886.0

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

19746.4

The Storyteller: A Story Short

1988

The Storyteller: Fearnot

1988

Shaolin: Wheel of Life

20018.0

East of Elephant Rock

19774.5

Lapse of Memory

19917.3

Stream Line

19767.0

A.K.A Nadia

20157.7

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes

20115.5

Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces

2015

Resident Alien

19905.3

In Search of Gregory

19695.1

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

20047.0

This Is My Street

19645.9

Frightmares

1987

After Darkness

19854.6

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict

20135.5

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill

20038.0

Interview with John Hurt

20079.0

Sunset People

19848.0

Monolith

1987

Sailcloth

20119.0

Back to Utopia

2016

The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

2011

The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past

2002