John Hurt

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

238

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-01-22

Deathday

2017-01-25 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

Also Known As

  • John Vincent Hurt
  • Sir John Hurt
  • Джон Хёрт
  • 존 허트
  • Σερ Τζον Βίνσεντ Χερτ
  • Τζον Χερτ
  • 约翰·赫特

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.

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Acting

2021
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
2020
Bare Knuckle
2018
Ayamé as Narrator (voice)
2017
Damascus Cover as Miki
2017
That Good Night as Ralph
2017
My Name Is Lenny as Leslie Salmon
2017
The Journey as Harry Patterson
2016
Jackie as The Priest
2016
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets as Siegfried Sassoon
2016
ChickLit as Francis Bonar
2015
The Last Panthers as Tom
2015
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie as Sailor John (voice)
2015
A.K.A Nadia as 347
2015
Break as Jack
2015
The Alchemist's Letter as The Alchemist (voice)
2015
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces as Narator
2014
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 as Narrator
2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film as Self
2014
Hercules as Cotys
2014
Heaven's Gate: The Butcher's Cut as Billy Irvine
2013
Only Lovers Left Alive as Christopher Marlowe
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The War Doctor
2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as The War Doctor (archive voice)
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
2013
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro as The War Doctor
2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor as The War Doctor
2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
Muse of Fire as Self
2013
Snowpiercer as Gilliam
2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car as Kingsley Bedford
2013
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self
2013
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict as Narrator (voice)
2012
Sightseers as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2012
Labyrinth as Audric Baillard
2012
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers as Narrator (voice)
2012
More Than Honey as Narrator (english voice)
2012
The Hollow Crown as The Chorus
2012
The Snipist as The Ministry
2011
The Gruffalo's Child as The Owl (voice)
2011
Immortals as Old Zeus
2011
On Borrowed Time as Self
2011
In Love with Alma Cogan as MC
2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Control
2011
Planet Dinosaur as Narrator (voice)
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Ollivander
2011
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes as Professor Orit
2011
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa as Narrador
2011
Melancholia as Dexter
2011
The Confession as Priest
2011
The Confession as Priest
2011
Human Planet as Narrator (voice)
2011
Sailcloth as Man
2010
Whistle and I'll Come to You as James Parkin
2010
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie as Carnak
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Ollivander
2010
Love at First Sight as Arthur
2010
Brighton Rock as Phil Corkery
2010
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures as Grandpa Sammy (voice)
2010
Lou as Doyle
2009
The Gruffalo as Owl (voice)
2009
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self (archive footage)
2009
Ballybrando as Self
2009
44 Inch Chest as Old Man Peanut
2009
Remembrance as Bellhop
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
2009
The Limits of Control as Guitar
2009
An Englishman in New York as Quentin Crisp
2008
Merlin as The Great Dragon (voice)
2008
New York, I Love You as Bellhop
2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army as Trevor Bruttenholm
2008
Recount as Warren Christopher
2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Harold Oxley
2008
Outlander as Rothgar
2008
The Oxford Murders as Arthur Seldom
2008
Lecture 21
2007
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
Boxes as Le père de Fanny
2007
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
2007
Interview with John Hurt as Self
2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Narrator (voice)
2006
The One Show as Self - Guest
2006
Whaledreamers as Self
2006
The Plot Against Harold Wilson as Narrator (voice)
2006
Shooting Dogs as Christopher
2006
V for Vendetta as Chancellor Adam Sutler
2005
The Proposition as Jellon Lamb
2005
Once Upon a Halloween as The Horned King
2005
Hiroshima as Narrator (voice)
2005
The Skeleton Key as Ben Devereaux
2005
Manderlay as Narrator (voice)
2005
Doctor Who as War Doctor
2005
Doctor Who as The Doctor
2005
Valiant as Felix (voice)
2005
Short Order
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004
Shadowing the Third Man as Narrator (voice)
2004
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation as Self
2004
Pride as Harry (voice)
2004
Hellboy as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
2004
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' as Self
2004
The Alan Clark Diaries as Alan Clark
2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2003
Dogville as Narrator (voice)
2003
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill as Man from Maybury Hill
2003
Owning Mahowny as Victor Foss
2002
The Alien Saga as Narrator (voice)
2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic as Self
2002
Crime and Punishment as Porfiry, chief investigator
2002
HypaSpace as Self
2002
Bait as Jack Blake
2002
Miranda as Christian
2002
Edge of the Universe as Narrator (voice)
2001
Shaolin: Wheel of Life as Narrator (voice)
2001
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed as Self
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Mr. Ollivander
2001
Captain Corelli's Mandolin as Dr. Iannis
2001
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm as Narrator (voice)
2001
Tabloid as Vince
2000
Lost Souls as Father Lareaux
2000
Krapp's Last Tape as Krapp
2000
The Tigger Movie as Narrator (voice)
1999
New Blood as Alan White
1999
You're Dead... as Maitland
1999
One Last Score as Sean Cooper
1999
Watership Down as General Woundwort
1999
All the Little Animals as Mr. Summers
1998
Love and Death on Long Island as Giles De'Ath
1998
The Climb as Chuck Langer
1998
The Commissioner as James morton
1998
Night Train as Michael Poole
1997
Bandyta as Babits
1997
Contact as S. R. Hadden
1996
Tender Loving Care as Dr. Turner
1995
Dead Man as John Scholfield
1995
Saigon Baby as Jack Lee
1995
Wild Bill as Charley Prince
1995
On Jupiter as Narrator (voice)
1995
Rob Roy as John Graham
1995
Two Nudes Bathing as Marquis de Prey
1994
The World of Jim Henson as The Storyteller (archive footage)
1994
Second Best as Uncle Turpin
1994
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as The Countess
1994
Great Moments in Aviation as Rex Goodyear
1994
Thumbelina as Mr. Mole (voice)
1993
Monolith as Villano
1993
GMTV as Self
1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author as The Father
1992
Dark at Noon as Anthony / Le Marquis
1991
Red Fox as Archie Carpenter
1991
I Dreamt I Woke Up as Boorman's Alter Ego
1991
Journey to Knock as Alfred
1991
Lapse of Memory as Conrad Farmer
1991
Performance as The Father
1991
King Ralph as Lord Percival Graves
1990
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool as Narrator (voice)
1990
Frankenstein Unbound as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)
1990
The Field as Bird' O'Donnell
1990
Resident Alien as Actor
1990
Windprints as Charles Rutherford
1990
Who Bombed Birmingham? as Chris Mullin
1990
Romeo.Juliet as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)
1989
Little Sweetheart as Robert Burger
1989
The Jim Henson Hour
1989
Scandal as Stephen Ward
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)
1988
The Bengali Night as Lucien Metz
1988
The Storyteller: The Three Ravens as The Storyteller
1988
The Storyteller as The Storyteller
1988
Deadline as Granville Jones
1987
White Mischief as Gilbert Colville
1987
Vincent as (voice)
1987
Aria as The Actor
1987
Spaceballs as Kane
1987
The Hunting of the Snark as The Narrator (voice)
1987
From the Hip as Douglas Benoit
1987
Frightmares
1987
Monolith as Narrator (voice)
1987
Iceberg as Narrator (voice)
1986
Rocinante as Bill
1986
Thames Film
1986
Jake Speed as Syd
1985
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima as Narrator (voice)
1985
The Black Cauldron as The Horned King (voice)
1985
Live Aid as Self
1985
After Darkness as Peter Hunningford
1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four as Winston Smith
1984
The Hit as Braddock
1984
Success Is the Best Revenge as Dino Montecurva
1984
Champions as Bob Champion
1983
Natural World as Narrator
1983
The Osterman Weekend as Lawrence Fassett
1983
King Lear as The Fool
1982
The Plague Dogs as Snitter (voice)
1982
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982
Partners as Kerwin
1982
Night Crossing as Peter Strelzyk
1981
History of the World: Part I as Jesus - The Roman Empire
1980
Heaven's Gate as Billy Irvine
1980
The Elephant Man as John Merrick
1980
An Evening with Quentin Crisp as Host
1979
Alien as Kane
1979
Crime and Punishment
1978
The Lord of the Rings as Aragorn (voice)
1978
Watership Down as Hazel (voice)
1978
Midnight Express as Max
1978
The Shout as Anthony Fielding
1977
The Disappearance as Atkinson
1977
East of Elephant Rock as Nash
1977
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Three Dangerous Ladies as Lt. George Simmonds
1977
Spectre as Mitri Cyon
1976
I, Claudius
1976
I, Claudius as Caligula
1976
Stream Line as Chandler
1975
The Naked Civil Servant as Quentin Crisp
1975
The Ghoul as Tom Rawlings
1975
The Sweeney as Tony Grey
1974
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs as Malcolm Scrawdyke
1974
NOVA as Narrator
1974
The Playboy of the Western World as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)
1973
Wessex Tales as Joshua Harlborough
1972
The Pied Piper as Franz
1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas as James Parkin
1971
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins as Richard Forbush
1971
10 Rillington Place as Timothy Evans
1971
Great Performances as Narrator
1970
Play for Today as Alec Cassell
1969
In Search of Gregory as Daniel
1969
Sinful Davey as Davey Haggart
1969
Before Winter Comes as Lieutenant Pilkington
1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1966
A Man for All Seasons as Richard Rich
1965
Gideon's Way as Freddy Tisdale
1964
This Is My Street as Charlie
1962
The Wild and the Willing as Phil Corbett
1956
Armchair Theatre as Joe
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