Cast
John Hurt
Acting
Cast
John Hurt
Known for
Acting
Born
1940-01-22
From
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Died
2017-01-25
Also known as John Vincent Hurt, Sir John Hurt, Σερ Τζον Βίνσεντ Χερτ
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.
★7.9
MOVIE2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Mr. Ollivander
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Ollivander
★8.1
MOVIE2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Ollivander
★8.2
MOVIE1979
Alien
as Kane
★5.8
MOVIE2014
Hercules
as Cotys
★6.9
MOVIE2013
Snowpiercer
as Gilliam
★7.4
MOVIE2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Professor Harold Oxley
★7.9
MOVIE2006
V for Vendetta
as Adam Sutler
★6.9
MOVIE1987
Spaceballs
as John Hurt
★7.4
MOVIE1997
Contact
as S. R. Hadden
★7.2
MOVIE2011
Melancholia
as Dexter
★6.6
MOVIE2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Control
★8.0
MOVIE1980
The Elephant Man
as John Merrick
★6.7
MOVIE2004
Hellboy
as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
★6.0
MOVIE2011
Immortals
as Old Zeus
★6.8
MOVIE2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
as Trevor Bruttenholm
★7.2
MOVIE2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
as Christopher Marlowe
★6.6
MOVIE1988
The Bengali Night
as Lucien Metz
★7.7
MOVIE2003
Dogville
as Narrator (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE1982
Night Crossing
as Peter Strelzyk
★6.1
MOVIE2010
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Winston Smith
★6.6
MOVIE2005
The Skeleton Key
as Ben Devereaux
★4.6
MOVIE1986
Jake Speed
as Syd
★6.0
MOVIE2008
New York, I Love You
as Bellhop
★6.5
MOVIE2008
Outlander
as Rothgar
★6.4
MOVIE1985
The Black Cauldron
as The Horned King (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1994
Thumbelina
as Mr. Mole (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE2000
Krapp's Last Tape
as Krapp
★7.4
MOVIE1978
Midnight Express
as Max
★6.1
MOVIE2008
Lecture 21
as Mondrian Kilroy
★6.7
MOVIE1980
Heaven's Gate
as Billy Irvine
★6.6
MOVIE1978
The Lord of the Rings
as Aragorn (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2011
The Gruffalo's Child
as The Owl (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Dead Man
as John Scholfield
★5.8
MOVIE1990
Frankenstein Unbound
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2005
Manderlay
as Narrator (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2012
Sightseers
as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1972
The Pied Piper
as Franz
★6.0
MOVIE2001
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
as Dr. Iannis
★5.2
MOVIE2002
Crime and Punishment
as Porfiry, chief investigator
★7.4
MOVIE2009
The Gruffalo
as Owl (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE1994
The World of Jim Henson
as The Storyteller (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1987
White Mischief
as Gilbert Colville
★5.7
MOVIE1995
Wild Bill
as Charley Prince
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Valiant
as Felix (voice)
★4.0
MOVIE1995
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
as Marquis de Prey
★6.6
MOVIE2011
The Confession
as Priest
★5.1
MOVIE2005
Short Order
as Felix
★6.5
MOVIE1987
Vincent
as (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Kingsley Bedford
★6.7
MOVIE2000
The Tigger Movie
as Narrator (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE1978
Watership Down
as Hazel (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2005
The Proposition
as Jellon Lamb
★6.5
MOVIE2016
Jackie
as The Priest
MOVIE2009
Remembrance
as Bellhop
MOVIE1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2008
The Oxford Murders
as Arthur Seldom
★7.2
MOVIE2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (War) (archive footage)
★8.1
MOVIE2012
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
as Narrator (voice)
★8.2
MOVIE2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The War Doctor
★5.6
MOVIE1989
Poison Candy
as Robert Burger
★6.2
MOVIE2005
Once Upon a Halloween
as The Horned King (voice) (archive sound)
★8.0
MOVIE2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The War Doctor
★7.2
MOVIE2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
★5.3
MOVIE2007
Boxes
as Fanny's father
★5.1
MOVIE2000
Lost Souls
as Father Lareaux
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")
★7.3
MOVIE1966
A Man for All Seasons
as Richard Rich
★5.5
MOVIE2002
Miranda
as Christian
★7.3
MOVIE1991
I Dreamt I Woke Up
as Boorman's Alter Ego
★6.8
MOVIE2010
Lou
as Doyle
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2001
Tabloid
as Vince
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Second Best
as Uncle Turpin
MOVIE1988
A Dinner of Herbs
as Verse Reader
★7.0
MOVIE2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE2017
My Name Is Lenny
as Leslie Salmon
★5.7
MOVIE2010
Brighton Rock
as Phil Corkery
★6.8
MOVIE1992
Dark at Noon
as Anthony / Le Marquis
★7.2
MOVIE2005
Hiroshima
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2006
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
as Adam Sutler
★6.7
MOVIE1995
Rob Roy
as John Graham
★7.8
MOVIE1982
The Plague Dogs
as Snitter (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as The War Doctor (archive voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1995
Saigon Baby
as Jack Lee
★6.3
MOVIE2002
The Alien Saga
as Narrator (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE2013
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
as The War Doctor
★8.0
MOVIE2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)
MOVIE1976
The Peddler
as Alec Cassell
★7.5
MOVIE2006
Shooting Dogs
as Christopher
★6.8
MOVIE2003
Owning Mahowny
as Victor Foss
★5.6
MOVIE1983
The Osterman Weekend
as Lawrence Fassett
MOVIE2010
Behind Jim Jarmusch
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2017
The Journey
as Harry Patterson
★5.3
MOVIE1969
Sinful Davey
as Davey Haggart
★3.1
MOVIE1996
Tender Loving Care
as Dr. Turner
★7.5
MOVIE1990
Romeo.Juliet
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE2012
More Than Honey
as Narrator (english voice)
★5.8
MOVIE2010
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
as Carnak
★6.5
MOVIE1984
The Hit
as Braddock
★6.0
MOVIE2009
The Limits of Control
as Guitar
★5.6
MOVIE1977
The Disappearance
as Atkinson
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Bait
as Jack Blake
★5.4
MOVIE1991
King Ralph
as Lord Percival Graves
★6.8
MOVIE1981
History of the World: Part I
as Jesus - The Roman Empire
★6.9
MOVIE2004
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
as Self
★4.5
MOVIE1999
If... Dog... Rabbit
as Sean Cooper
★6.9
MOVIE2017
That Good Night
as Ralph
★4.9
MOVIE1994
Great Moments in Aviation
as Rex Goodyear
★10.0
MOVIE2009
Ballybrando
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE1975
The Ghoul
as Tom Rawlings
★7.9
MOVIE1985
Live Aid
as Self
★8.2
MOVIE2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
MOVIE1987
Iceberg
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2011
In Love with Alma Cogan
as MC
★6.6
MOVIE1984
Champions
as Bob Champion
★5.5
MOVIE1982
Partners
as Kerwin
★6.3
MOVIE2007
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2008
Recount
as Warren Christopher
★6.0
MOVIE1989
Scandal
as Stephen Ward
★4.6
MOVIE1993
Monolith
as Villano
★5.5
MOVIE2017
Damascus Cover
as Miki
MOVIE2008
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
★6.0
MOVIE1978
The Shout
as Anthony Fielding
★5.0
MOVIE2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1987
The Hunting of the Snark
as The Narrator (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE2013
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1975
The Naked Civil Servant
as Quentin Crisp
★6.0
MOVIE1999
All the Little Animals
as Mr. Summers
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Before Winter Comes
as Lieutenant Pilkington
★5.4
MOVIE1987
Aria
as The Actor
★6.0
MOVIE1962
The Wild and the Willing
as Phil Corbett
★6.8
MOVIE1999
You're Dead...
as Maitland
★10.0
MOVIE2014
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
as Narrator
★4.5
MOVIE1977
East of Elephant Rock
as Nash
★6.0
MOVIE2016
The Final Reel
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
as The Storyteller
MOVIE1987
Monolith
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2001
Shaolin: Wheel of Life
as Narrator (voice)
★5.4
MOVIE2009
44 Inch Chest
as Old Man Peanut
★7.1
MOVIE1998
The Climb
as Chuck Langer
★7.3
MOVIE1971
10 Rillington Place
as Timothy Evans
★6.2
MOVIE2015
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
as Sailor John (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE1999
New Blood
as Alan White
★7.0
MOVIE2025
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
★4.4
MOVIE1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as The Countess
★9.0
MOVIE2011
Sailcloth
as Man
★5.5
MOVIE2006
Whaledreamers
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1977
Three Dangerous Ladies
as Lt. George Simmonds
★4.6
MOVIE1985
After Darkness
as Peter Hunningford
MOVIE1995
On Jupiter
as Narrator (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Love at First Sight
as Arthur
★5.0
MOVIE1971
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
as Richard Forbush
★5.9
MOVIE1987
From the Hip
as Douglas Benoit
★6.4
MOVIE1974
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
as Malcolm Scrawdyke
★5.1
MOVIE1969
In Search of Gregory
as Daniel
★7.0
MOVIE1990
The Field
as Bird' O'Donnell
★7.3
MOVIE1991
Lapse of Memory
as Conrad Farmer
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: The True Bride
as The Storyteller
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as The Storyteller
★5.9
MOVIE1964
This Is My Street
as Charlie
★6.0
MOVIE1998
The Commissioner
as James morton
★8.5
MOVIE1990
Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Chris Mullin
★4.5
MOVIE2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: Fearnot
as The Storyteller
★5.5
MOVIE2013
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
as The Storyteller
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
as The Storyteller
MOVIE2013
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self
★7.5
MOVIE1990
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1977
Spectre
as Mitri Cyon
MOVIE1986
Thames Film
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE1984
Success Is the Best Revenge
as Dino Montecurva
★5.5
MOVIE2011
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
as Professor Orit
★9.0
MOVIE2012
The Snipist
as The Ministry
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
as The Storyteller
MOVIE2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
★8.3
MOVIE2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Stephen Ward
MOVIE1988
The Storyteller: A Story Short
as The Storyteller
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Pride
as Harry (voice)
MOVIE2018
Ayamé
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1982
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE2011
On Borrowed Time
as Self
MOVIE1971
Green Julia
as Bob
★7.0
MOVIE1998
Night Train
as Michael Poole
★6.8
MOVIE2015
The Alchemist's Letter
as The Alchemist (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Shadowing the Third Man
as Narrator (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1991
Journey to Knock
as Alfred
★6.0
MOVIE1988
Deadline
as Granville Jones
★5.4
MOVIE2016
ChickLit
as Francis Bonar
★6.0
MOVIE1991
Red Fox
as Archie Carpenter
★6.5
MOVIE1990
Windprints
as Charles Rutherford
★5.3
MOVIE1990
Resident Alien
as Self - Actor
★10.0
MOVIE1990
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
as Narrator (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1983
King Lear
as The Fool
★7.0
MOVIE1976
Stream Line
as Chandler
★5.8
MOVIE1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
as John
★6.4
MOVIE2009
An Englishman in New York
as Quentin Crisp
★9.0
MOVIE1986
Rocinante
as Bill
MOVIE2016
Back to Utopia
as Professor Peter Panludic (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE2007
Interview with John Hurt
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1974
The Playboy of the Western World
as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)
★4.8
MOVIE2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Father
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Love and Death on Long Island
as Giles De'Ath
MOVIE2009
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
as Self (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE2001
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
as Narrator (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE2015
Break
as Jack
★3.5
MOVIE1985
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Narrator (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2015
A.K.A Nadia
as 347
★8.0
MOVIE1994
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2009
Centenary: The BP Story
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1984
Sunset People
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE2010
Whistle and I'll Come to You
as James Parkin
★9.0
MOVIE1980
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
as Host
★5.7
MOVIE1997
Brute
as Babits
MOVIE2002
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
as Man from Maybury Hill
MOVIE2006
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2016
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
as Siegfried Sassoon
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
as Self
MOVIE2011
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE2001
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
as Self
MOVIE1987
Frightmares
MOVIE2015
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
as Narator