
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.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Mr. Ollivander

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Ollivander

Alien
as Kane

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Ollivander

Hercules
as Cotys

Snowpiercer
as Gilliam

V for Vendetta
as Adam Sutler

Spaceballs
as John Hurt

Contact
as S. R. Hadden

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Narrator (voice)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Professor Harold Oxley

Hellboy
as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
as Trevor Bruttenholm

Immortals
as Old Zeus

New York, I Love You
as Bellhop

Dogville
as Narrator (voice)

The Elephant Man
as John Merrick

Melancholia
as Dexter

Midnight Express
as Max

Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Winston Smith

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Control

Thumbelina
as Mr. Mole (voice)

The Skeleton Key
as Ben Devereaux

Outlander
as Rothgar

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)

The Lord of the Rings
as Aragorn (voice)

Dead Man
as John Scholfield

The Black Cauldron
as The Horned King (voice)

Valiant
as Felix (voice)

Rob Roy
as John Graham

Jackie
as The Priest

The Tigger Movie
as Narrator (voice)

Heaven's Gate
as Billy Irvine

Only Lovers Left Alive
as Christopher Marlowe

Lost Souls
as Father Lareaux

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The War Doctor

The Proposition
as Jellon Lamb

Watership Down
as Hazel (voice)

Scandal
as Stephen Ward

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
as Dr. Iannis

Aria
as The Actor

Manderlay
as Narrator (voice)

Shooting Dogs
as Christopher

Wild Bill
as Charley Prince

The Field
as Bird' O'Donnell

Pride
as Harry (voice)

Recount
as Warren Christopher

The Shout
as Anthony Fielding

The Plague Dogs
as Snitter (voice)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)

Partners
as Kerwin

A Man for All Seasons
as Richard Rich

The Oxford Murders
as Arthur Seldom

The Gruffalo
as Owl (voice)

Live Aid
as Self

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)

The Hit
as Braddock

The Gruffalo's Child
as The Owl (voice)

King Ralph
as Lord Percival Graves

Miranda
as Christian

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as The Countess

Damascus Cover
as Miki

Night Crossing
as Peter Strelzyk

White Mischief
as Gilbert Colville

The Osterman Weekend
as Lawrence Fassett

The Limits of Control
as Guitar

Sightseers
as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Owning Mahowny
as Victor Foss

Monolith
as Villano

History of the World: Part I
as Jesus - The Roman Empire

Waking Sleeping Beauty
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)

Hiroshima
as Narrator (voice)

Frankenstein Unbound
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)

44 Inch Chest
as Old Man Peanut

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
as Carnak

Little Sweetheart
as Robert Burger

Muse of Fire
as Self

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as The War Doctor (archive voice)

Brighton Rock
as Phil Corkery

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
as Sailor John (voice)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self

10 Rillington Place
as Timothy Evans

Once Upon a Halloween
as The Horned King (voice) (archive sound)

After Darkness
as Peter Hunningford

Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Kingsley Bedford

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
as Malcolm Scrawdyke

Champions
as Bob Champion

Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (War) (archive footage)

The Alien Saga
as Narrator (voice)

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
as Narrator (voice)

King Lear
as The Fool

David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)

Crime and Punishment
as Porfiry, chief investigator

The Pied Piper
as Franz

From the Hip
as Douglas Benoit

All the Little Animals
as Mr. Summers

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
as Self

Jake Speed
as Syd

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Commissioner
as James morton

New Blood
as Alan White

Lecture 21
as Mondrian Kilroy

The Naked Civil Servant
as Quentin Crisp

Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Chris Mullin

My Name Is Lenny
as Leslie Salmon

Success Is the Best Revenge
as Dino Montecurva

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen

The Journey
as Harry Patterson

Spectre
as Mitri Cyon

Tabloid
as Vince

If... Dog... Rabbit
as Sean Cooper

Resident Alien
as Self - Actor

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
as Self

The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self

Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)

Second Best
as Uncle Turpin

Brute
as Babits

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
as Self

ChickLit
as Francis Bonar

The Wild and the Willing
as Phil Corbett

The World of Jim Henson
as The Storyteller (archive footage)

The Bengali Night
as Lucien Metz

The Disappearance
as Atkinson

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Narrator (voice)

Before Winter Comes
as Lieutenant Pilkington

Love and Death on Long Island
as Giles De'Ath

Ballybrando
as Self

The Alchemist's Letter
as The Alchemist (voice)

Bait
as Jack Blake

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Stephen Ward

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
as Self

Remembrance
as Bellhop

An Englishman in New York
as Quentin Crisp

More Than Honey
as Narrator (english voice)

Red Fox
as Archie Carpenter

Tender Loving Care
as Dr. Turner

In Love with Alma Cogan
as MC

The Confession
as Priest

Sinful Davey
as Davey Haggart

The Ghoul
as Tom Rawlings

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
as Self (archive footage)

Dark at Noon
as Anthony / Le Marquis

Lou
as Doyle

Stream Line
as Chandler

The Hunting of the Snark
as The Narrator (voice)

The Sailor from Gibraltar
as John

East of Elephant Rock
as Nash

That Good Night
as Ralph

In Search of Gregory
as Daniel

Three Dangerous Ladies
as Lt. George Simmonds

Short Order
as Felix

Deadline
as Granville Jones

The Final Reel
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
as Richard Forbush

Whistle and I'll Come to You
as James Parkin

Love at First Sight
as Arthur

The Storyteller: The Luck Child
as The Storyteller

The Climb
as Chuck Langer

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
as Narrator (voice)

Night Train
as Michael Poole

Boxes
as Fanny's father

You're Dead...
as Maitland

Great Moments in Aviation
as Rex Goodyear

The Storyteller: The True Bride
as The Storyteller

Vincent
as (voice)

Paul McCartney - Take It Away
as Self

Windprints
as Charles Rutherford

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self

The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
as The Storyteller

Behind Jim Jarmusch
as Self

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The War Doctor

Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
as Narrator (voice)

The Plot Against Harold Wilson
as Narrator (voice)

Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
as Narrator

Journey to Knock
as Alfred

Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Father

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
as Self

On Borrowed Time
as Self

Romeo.Juliet
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)

The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
as The Storyteller

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
as The War Doctor

'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
as Adam Sutler

Sailcloth
as Man

Rocinante
as Bill

A.K.A Nadia
as 347

I Dreamt I Woke Up
as Boorman's Alter Ego

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

This Is My Street
as Charlie

Break
as Jack

The Snipist
as The Ministry

Whaledreamers
as Self

Centenary: The BP Story
as Narrator (voice)

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
as Narrator (voice)

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
as Narrator (voice)

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
as Marquis de Prey

Ayamé
as Narrator (voice)

The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
as Siegfried Sassoon

Thames Film
as Narrator

Iceberg
as Narrator (voice)

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as The Storyteller

Krapp's Last Tape
as Krapp

Lapse of Memory
as Conrad Farmer

The Peddler
as Alec Cassell

Shaolin: Wheel of Life
as Narrator (voice)

The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
as The Storyteller

Monolith
as Narrator (voice)

The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
as Self

Interview with John Hurt
as Self

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
as Professor Orit

The Storyteller: A Story Short
as The Storyteller

Saigon Baby
as Jack Lee

An Evening with Quentin Crisp
as Host

Back to Utopia
as Professor Peter Panludic (voice)

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
as Man from Maybury Hill

The Storyteller: Fearnot
as The Storyteller

Shadowing the Third Man
as Narrator (voice)

On Jupiter
as Narrator (voice)

The Playboy of the Western World
as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)

Frightmares

Sunset People
as Self

Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
as Narator

Green Julia
as Bob