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.
Filmography
all 253
Movies 218
self 41
TV Shows 35
Voice 14
Narrator 14
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022)
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony (2021)
Bare Knuckle (2020)
Ayamé (2018)
Damascus Cover (2017)
That Good Night (2017)
My Name Is Lenny (2017)
The Journey (2017)
From Jackie to Camelot (2017)
Jackie (2016)
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets (2016)
ChickLit (2016)
The Final Reel (2016)
The Last Panthers (2015)
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015)
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie (2015)
A.K.A Nadia (2015)
Break (2015)
The Alchemist's Letter (2015)
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces (2015)
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 (2014)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
Hercules (2014)
Heaven's Gate: The Butcher's Cut (2014)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro (2013)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (2013)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips (2013)
Muse of Fire (2013)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013)
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre (2013)
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict (2013)
Sightseers (2012)
Labyrinth (2012)
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers (2012)
More Than Honey (2012)
The Hollow Crown (2012)
The Snipist (2012)
The Gruffalo's Child (2011)
Immortals (2011)
On Borrowed Time (2011)
In Love with Alma Cogan (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Planet Dinosaur (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes (2011)
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (2011)
Melancholia (2011)
The Confession (2011)
The Confession (2011)
Human Planet (2011)
Sailcloth (2011)
Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Love at First Sight (2010)
Brighton Rock (2010)
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010)
Lou (2010)
The Gruffalo (2009)
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World (2009)
Ballybrando (2009)
44 Inch Chest (2009)
Remembrance (2009)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
The Limits of Control (2009)
An Englishman in New York (2009)
Merlin (2008)
New York, I Love You (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Recount (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Outlander (2008)
The Oxford Murders (2008)
Lecture 21 (2008)
Behind Jim Jarmusch (2008)
Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years (2007)
Masters of Science Fiction (2007)
Boxes (2007)
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
Interview with John Hurt (2007)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
The One Show (2006)
Whaledreamers (2006)
The Plot Against Harold Wilson (2006)
Shooting Dogs (2006)
V for Vendetta (2006)
The Proposition (2005)
Once Upon a Halloween (2005)
Drama Connections (2005)
Hiroshima (2005)
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Manderlay (2005)
Doctor Who (2005)
Valiant (2005)
Short Order (2005)
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
Shadowing the Third Man (2004)
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation (2004)
Pride (2004)
Hellboy (2004)
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' (2004)
The Alan Clark Diaries (2004)
The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003)
Dogville (2003)
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill (2003)
Owning Mahowny (2003)
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)
The Alien Saga (2002)
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past (2002)
I, Claudius: A Television Epic (2002)
Crime and Punishment (2002)
HypaSpace (2002)
Bait (2002)
Miranda (2002)
Johnny Vaughan Tonight (2002)
Edge of the Universe (2002)
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed (2001)
Shaolin: Wheel of Life (2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm (2001)
Tabloid (2001)
Lost Souls (2000)
Krapp's Last Tape (2000)
The Tigger Movie (2000)
New Blood (1999)
You're Dead... (1999)
One Last Score (1999)
Watership Down (1999)
All the Little Animals (1999)
A Monkey's Tale (1999)
The Alien Legacy (1999)
Love and Death on Long Island (1998)
The Climb (1998)
The Commissioner (1998)
Night Train (1998)
Bandyta (1997)
Contact (1997)
Tender Loving Care (1996)
Dead Man (1995)
Saigon Baby (1995)
Wild Bill (1995)
On Jupiter (1995)
Rob Roy (1995)
Two Nudes Bathing (1995)
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
Betrayal (1994)
Second Best (1994)
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
Thumbelina (1994)
Monolith (1993)
GMTV (1993)
Six Characters in Search of An Author (1992)
Dark at Noon (1992)
Red Fox (1991)
I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991)
Journey to Knock (1991)
Lapse of Memory (1991)
Performance (1991)
King Ralph (1991)
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool (1990)
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
The Field (1990)
Resident Alien (1990)
Windprints (1990)
Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990)
Romeo.Juliet (1990)
Little Sweetheart (1989)
The Jim Henson Hour (1989)
Scandal (1989)
David Macaulay: Pyramid (1989)
The Bengali Night (1988)
The Storyteller: The Three Ravens (1988)
The Storyteller (1988)
Deadline (1988)
White Mischief (1987)
Vincent (1987)
Aria (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
The Hunting of the Snark (1987)
From the Hip (1987)
Iceberg (1987)
Monolith (1987)
Frightmares (1987)
Rocinante (1986)
Thames Film (1986)
Jake Speed (1986)
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Live Aid (1985)
After Darkness (1985)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
The Hit (1984)
Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
Champions (1984)
Natural World (1983)
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
King Lear (1983)
The Plague Dogs (1982)
Paul McCartney - Take It Away (1982)
Partners (1982)
Night Crossing (1982)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980)
An Evening with Quentin Crisp (1980)
Alien: Experience in Terror (1979)
Alien (1979)
Crime and Punishment (1979)
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Watership Down (1978)
Midnight Express (1978)
The Shout (1978)
The Disappearance (1977)
East of Elephant Rock (1977)
The Hollywood Greats (1977)
Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)
Spectre (1977)
I, Claudius (1976)
Stream Line (1976)
The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
The Ghoul (1975)
The Sweeney (1975)
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
NOVA (1974)
The Playboy of the Western World (1974)
Wessex Tales (1973)
The Pied Piper (1972)
A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971)
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
Play for Today (1970)
In Search of Gregory (1969)
Sinful Davey (1969)
Before Winter Comes (1969)
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Gideon's Way (1965)
This Is My Street (1964)
First Night (1963)
The Wild and the Willing (1962)
Armchair Theatre (1956)
Divine Rapture
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1940-01-22
Deathday2017-01-25 (77 years old)
Birth NameJohn Vincent Hurt
Birth PlaceChesterfield, United Kingdom
ReligionAnglicanism
RelationshipsAnnette Robertson (1962-01-01 - 1964-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesChesterfield, United Kingdom
Also Known AsJohn Vincent Hurt, Sir John Hurt, Джон Хёрт, 존 허트, Σερ Τζον Βίνσεντ Χερτ, Τζον Χερτ, 约翰·赫特
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award, BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Knight Bachelor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
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