John Hurt

Acting · 4.3 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

Immortals

20116.1

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

20086.8

The Elephant Man

19808.0

Thumbelina

19946.5

The Skeleton Key

20056.6

The Field

19907.0

The Black Cauldron

19856.4

Nineteen Eighty-Four

19846.8

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

20106.1

The Tigger Movie

20006.7

Dogville

20037.8

The Lord of the Rings

19786.6

Midnight Express

19787.4

Melancholia

20117.2

Outlander

20086.5

Valiant

20055.7

Dead Man

19957.3

New York, I Love You

20086.0

The Gruffalo

20097.3

Heaven's Gate

19806.7

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

20138.2

Rob Roy

19956.7

Jackie

20166.5

Only Lovers Left Alive

20137.2

Frankenstein Unbound

19905.8

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

20016.0

The Bengali Night

19886.6

Lost Souls

20005.1

A Man for All Seasons

19667.3

King Ralph

19915.4

Watership Down

19787.2

Night Crossing

19826.2

The Gruffalo's Child

20116.9

The Oxford Murders

20086.0

Manderlay

20056.9

Wild Bill

19955.7

Scandal

19896.0

Shooting Dogs

20067.5

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

20076.3

The Proposition

20057.0

The Hit

19846.5

Jake Speed

19864.6

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

The Plague Dogs

19827.8

Owning Mahowny

20036.8

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

19944.4

History of the World: Part I

19816.7

The Alien Saga

20026.3

The Shout

19786.0

Sightseers

20126.3

Aria

19875.3

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

20158.0

White Mischief

19876.1

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Second Best

19946.8

Live Aid

19857.9

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

20156.2

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie

20105.8

Krapp's Last Tape

20007.4

The Limits of Control

20096.0

The Osterman Weekend

19835.6

Jayne Mansfield's Car

20135.7

Brighton Rock

20105.7

Saigon Baby

19959.0

Recount

20086.8

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

The Island

1976

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing

19954.0

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers

20128.1

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Damascus Cover

20175.5

Pride

20046.1

Love and Death on Long Island

19986.3

10 Rillington Place

19717.3

Wimbledon The Official Film 2014

201410.0

The World of Jim Henson

19947.4

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

20137.8

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

20138.0

All the Little Animals

19996.0

Doctor Who at the Proms

20247.2

More Than Honey

20127.3

Short Order

20055.1

Bait

20028.0

44 Inch Chest

20095.4

The Pied Piper

19726.0

Lou

20106.8

Boxes

20075.3

Miranda

20025.5

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

New Blood

19995.5

The Journey

20176.3

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0

V for Vendetta: Unmasked

20068.0

From the Hip

19875.9

The Naked Civil Servant

19756.7

The Wild and the Willing

19626.0

On Jupiter

1995

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

20139.0

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

Partners

19825.5

Vincent

19876.5

A Dinner of Herbs

1988

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation

20046.9

Once Upon a Halloween

20056.2

Thames Film

1986

Whaledreamers

20065.5

Tender Loving Care

19963.4

Ballybrando

200910.0

The Storyteller: The Luck Child

1988

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro

201310.0

Hiroshima

20057.2

Lecture 21

20086.1

The Commissioner

19986.0

The Confession

20116.6

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen

2008

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

19715.0

That Good Night

20176.9

Tabloid

20015.0

Champions

19846.6

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre

2013

Sinful Davey

19695.3

Success Is the Best Revenge

19846.5

Whistle and I'll Come to You

20105.7

The Beast Within: Making Alien

20038.2

An Englishman in New York

20096.4

The Peddler

1976

Who Bombed Birmingham?

19908.5

Three Dangerous Ladies

19776.0

Henry Fonda for President

20257.0

You're Dead...

19996.8

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

20027.0

I Dreamt I Woke Up

19917.3

The Snipist

20129.0

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

20255.0

Monolith

19934.6

The Disappearance

19775.6

Behind Jim Jarmusch

2010

The Ghoul

19755.0

ChickLit

20165.4

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow

1988

Great Moments in Aviation

19944.9

Remembrance

2009

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

19907.5

Brute

19975.7

Iceberg

1987

The Climb

19987.1

Dark at Noon

19926.8

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

20138.3

Red Fox

19916.0

Little Sweetheart

19895.6

Deadline

19886.0

If... Dog... Rabbit

19994.5

My Name Is Lenny

20175.8

Rocinante

19869.0

Before Winter Comes

19696.0

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

20016.5

The Storyteller: The True Bride

1988

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

19853.5

The Plot Against Harold Wilson

2006

The Final Reel

20166.0

The Sailor from Gibraltar

19675.8

The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death

1988

The Storyteller: A Story Short

1988

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict

20135.5

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

19746.4

King Lear

19836.7

The Hunting of the Snark

19878.0

Ayamé

2018

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

20017.3

Stream Line

19767.0

Six Characters in Search of An Author

19926.0

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

2009

Shadowing the Third Man

20046.6

East of Elephant Rock

19774.5

Lapse of Memory

19917.3

Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool

199010.0

After Darkness

19854.6

The Storyteller: Fearnot

1988

The Alchemist's Letter

20156.8

The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant

1988

This Is My Street

19645.9

The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog

1988

In Search of Gregory

19695.1

Spectre

19776.0

In Love with Alma Cogan

20117.0

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

19948.0

Resident Alien

19905.3

Shaolin: Wheel of Life

20018.0

An Evening with Quentin Crisp

19809.0

Journey to Knock

199110.0

Break

20157.5

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill

20038.0

Windprints

19906.5

Paul McCartney - Take It Away

1982

Back to Utopia

2016

The Playboy of the Western World

19747.0

Love at First Sight

20107.7

On Borrowed Time

20115.3

A.K.A Nadia

20157.7

Green Julia

1971

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

20047.0

Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces

2015

Night Train

19987.0

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

2016

Centenary: The BP Story

2009

Monolith

1987

Sunset People

19848.0

Interview with John Hurt

20079.0

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes

20115.5

Frightmares

1987

Sailcloth

20119.0

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

2011

The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past

2002