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John Hurt
Actor

John Hurt

19 Movies
1 TV Shows
20 Credits
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Known For Acting
Known Credits 20
Birthday January 22, 1940 (86 years old)
Place of Birth Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Also Known As John Vincent Hurt, Sir John Hurt, ΣΡρ ΀΢ον ΒίνσΡντ ΧΡρτ, ηΊ¦ηΏ°Β·θ΅«η‰Ή
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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.

Filmography (270)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War 2025
Henry Fonda for President 2025
Doctor Who at the Proms 2024
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2021
AyamΓ© 2018
Damascus Cover 2017
The Journey 2017
That Good Night 2017
My Name Is Lenny 2017
Jackie 2016
ChickLit 2016
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets 2016
The Final Reel 2016
Back to Utopia 2016
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces 2015
The Alchemist's Letter 2015
A.K.A Nadia 2015
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie 2015
Break 2015
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song 2015
The Last Panthers 2015
Hercules 2014
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 2014
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty 2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car 2013
Snowpiercer 2013
Only Lovers Left Alive 2013
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict 2013
Muse of Fire 2013
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro 2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 2013
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor 2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips 2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot 2013
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre 2013
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers 2012
Sightseers 2012
The Snipist 2012
More Than Honey 2012
Labyrinth 2012
The Hollow Crown 2012
Playhouse Presents 2012
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011
Melancholia 2011
Immortals 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
The Gruffalo's Child 2011
Sailcloth 2011
The Confession 2011
On Borrowed Time 2011
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes 2011
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa 2011
In Love with Alma Cogan 2011
Human Planet 2011
The Confession 2011
Planet Dinosaur 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010
Brighton Rock 2010
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie 2010
Lou 2010
Whistle and I'll Come to You 2010
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures 2010
Behind Jim Jarmusch 2010
Love at First Sight 2010
The Limits of Control 2009
The Gruffalo 2009
An Englishman in New York 2009
44 Inch Chest 2009
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World 2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009
Remembrance 2009
Ballybrando 2009
Centenary: The BP Story 2009
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008
Outlander 2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008
The Oxford Murders 2008
Recount 2008
Lecture 21 2008
New York, I Love You 2008
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen 2008
Merlin 2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas 2007
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron 2007
Boxes 2007
Interview with John Hurt 2007
Masters of Science Fiction 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006 V for Vendetta 2006
Shooting Dogs 2006
The Plot Against Harold Wilson 2006
Whaledreamers 2006
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked 2006
Manderlay 2005
The Skeleton Key 2005
Valiant 2005
Once Upon a Halloween 2005
The Proposition 2005
Hiroshima 2005
Short Order 2005
Doctor Who 2005
Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction 2005
Hellboy 2004
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation 2004
Shadowing the Third Man 2004
Pride 2004
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' 2004
The Alan Clark Diaries 2004
Who Do You Think You Are? 2004
Owning Mahowny 2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien 2003
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill 2003
Dogville 2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film 2003
The Alien Saga 2002
Miranda 2002
Crime and Punishment 2002
Bait 2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic 2002
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past 2002
HypaSpace 2002
Edge of the Universe 2002
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001
Shaolin: Wheel of Life 2001
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm 2001
Tabloid 2001
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed 2001
Krapp's Last Tape 2000
Lost Souls 2000
The Tigger Movie 2000
You're Dead... 1999
All the Little Animals 1999
New Blood 1999
If... Dog... Rabbit 1999
Watership Down 1999
The Commissioner 1998
Love and Death on Long Island 1998
The Climb 1998
Night Train 1998
Parkinson 1998
Brute 1997
Contact 1997
Tender Loving Care 1996
Dead Man 1995 Rob Roy 1995 Wild Bill 1995
On Jupiter 1995
Saigon Baby 1995
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing 1995
Picture Windows 1995
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1994 Second Best 1994
Great Moments in Aviation 1994
Thumbelina 1994
The World of Jim Henson 1994
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
Monolith 1993
GMTV 1993
Dark at Noon 1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author 1992
King Ralph 1991
Red Fox 1991
Journey to Knock 1991
I Dreamt I Woke Up 1991
Lapse of Memory 1991
Performance 1991
Frankenstein Unbound 1990
The Field 1990
Windprints 1990
Resident Alien 1990
Who Bombed Birmingham? 1990
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch 1990
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool 1990
Romeo.Juliet 1990
Scandal 1989
Poison Candy 1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid 1989
The Jim Henson Hour 1989
Deadline 1988
The Bengali Night 1988
The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog 1988
The Storyteller: Fearnot 1988
The Storyteller: A Story Short 1988
The Storyteller: The Luck Child 1988
The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death 1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow 1988
The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant 1988
The Storyteller: The True Bride 1988
The Storyteller 1988
Spaceballs 1987
From the Hip 1987
Aria 1987
White Mischief 1987
The Hunting of the Snark 1987
Vincent 1987
Iceberg 1987
Frightmares 1987
Jake Speed 1986
Rocinante 1986
Thames Film 1986
ScreenPlay 1986
After Darkness 1985
The Black Cauldron 1985
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima 1985
Live Aid 1985
Screen Two 1985
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
The Hit 1984
Champions 1984
Success Is the Best Revenge 1984
Sunset People 1984
The Osterman Weekend 1983
King Lear 1983
Natural World 1983
The Plague Dogs 1982
Partners 1982
Night Crossing 1982
Paul McCartney - Take It Away 1982
History of the World: Part I 1981
The Elephant Man 1980
Heaven's Gate 1980
An Evening with Quentin Crisp 1980
Alien 1979
Crime and Punishment 1979
The Lord of the Rings 1978
Watership Down 1978
Midnight Express 1978
The Shout 1978
East of Elephant Rock 1977
The Disappearance 1977
Three Dangerous Ladies 1977
Spectre 1977
The Hollywood Greats 1977
The Sunday Drama 1977
Stream Line 1976
The Peddler 1976
I, Claudius 1976
The Naked Civil Servant 1975
The Ghoul 1975
The Sweeney 1975
Saturday Night Live 1975
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs 1974
The Playboy of the Western World 1974
NOVA 1974
Wessex Tales 1973
The Pied Piper 1972
10 Rillington Place 1971
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins 1971
Green Julia 1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas 1971
Great Performances 1971
Play for Today 1970
Sinful Davey 1969
Before Winter Comes 1969
In Search of Gregory 1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre 1969
The Sailor from Gibraltar 1967
ITV Playhouse 1967
A Man for All Seasons 1966
NET Playhouse 1966
Gideon's Way 1965
This Is My Street 1964
Thursday Theatre 1964
The Wild and the Willing 1962
Drama 61-67 1961
Armchair Theatre 1956
Golden Globe Awards 1944
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