John Hurt
Age: N/A | From: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Aliases: John Vincent Hurt , Sir John Hurt , 존 허트 , Σερ Τζον Βίνσεντ Χερτ , Τζον Χερτ , 约翰·赫特 , 約翰·赫特 , Джон Херт , جان هرت
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Homepage: http://johnhurt.co.uk
Movie Involvements: 174
TV Involvements: 26
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Doctor Who
(2005) The Doctor
NOVA
(1974) Narrator
Natural World
(1983) Narrator
Merlin
(2008) The Great Dragon (voice)
The Sweeney
(1975) Tony Grey
Play for Today
(1970) Alec Cassell
Gideon's Way
(1965) Freddy Tisdale
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(2001) Mr. OllivanderActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | N/A | |
| 2018 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2017 | Miki | |
| Ralph | ||
| Leslie Salmon | ||
| Harry Patterson | ||
| 2016 | The Priest | |
| Siegfried Sassoon | ||
| Francis Bonar | ||
| 2015 | Tom | |
| Sailor John (voice) | ||
| 347 | ||
| Jack | ||
| The Alchemist (voice) | ||
| Narator | ||
| 2014 | Narrator | |
| Self | ||
| Cotys | ||
| Billy Irvine | ||
| 2013 | Christopher Marlowe | |
| The War Doctor | ||
| The War Doctor (archive voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| The War Doctor | ||
| The War Doctor | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Gilliam | ||
| Kingsley Bedford | ||
| The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2012 | Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Audric Baillard | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Narrator (english voice) | ||
| The Chorus | ||
| The Ministry | ||
| 2011 | The Owl (voice) | |
| Old Zeus | ||
| Self | ||
| MC | ||
| Control | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Ollivander | ||
| Professor Orit | ||
| Narrador | ||
| Dexter | ||
| Priest | ||
| Priest | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Man | ||
| 2010 | James Parkin | |
| Carnak | ||
| Ollivander | ||
| Arthur | ||
| Phil Corkery | ||
| Self | ||
| Grandpa Sammy (voice) | ||
| Doyle | ||
| 2009 | Owl (voice) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| Old Man Peanut | ||
| Bellhop | ||
| The Horned King (voice) (archive footage) | ||
| Guitar | ||
| Quentin Crisp | ||
| 2008 | Mondrian Kilroy | |
| The Great Dragon (voice) | ||
| Bellhop | ||
| Trevor Bruttenholm | ||
| Warren Christopher | ||
| Professor Harold Oxley | ||
| Rothgar | ||
| Arthur Seldom | ||
| 2007 | N/A | |
| Le père de Fanny | ||
| Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Christopher | ||
| Chancellor Adam Sutler | ||
| 2005 | Jellon Lamb | |
| The Horned King | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Ben Devereaux | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| War Doctor | ||
| The Doctor | ||
| Felix (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2004 | Self | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Harry (voice) | ||
| Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | ||
| Self | ||
| Alan Clark | ||
| 2003 | Self | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Man from Maybury Hill | ||
| Victor Foss | ||
| 2002 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Porfiry, chief investigator | ||
| Self | ||
| Jack Blake | ||
| Christian | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2001 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Mr. Ollivander | ||
| Dr. Iannis | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Vince | ||
| 2000 | Father Lareaux | |
| Krapp | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1999 | Alan White | |
| Maitland | ||
| Sean Cooper | ||
| General Woundwort | ||
| Mr. Summers | ||
| 1998 | Giles De'Ath | |
| Chuck Langer | ||
| James morton | ||
| Michael Poole | ||
| 1997 | Babits | |
| S. R. Hadden | ||
| 1996 | Dr. Turner | |
| 1995 | John Scholfield | |
| Jack Lee | ||
| Charley Prince | ||
| Le Compte | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| John Graham | ||
| Marquis de Prey | ||
| 1994 | The Storyteller (archive footage) | |
| Uncle Turpin | ||
| Self | ||
| The Countess | ||
| Rex Goodyear | ||
| Mr. Mole (voice) | ||
| 1993 | Villano | |
| Self | ||
| 1992 | The Father | |
| Anthony / Le Marquis | ||
| 1991 | Archie Carpenter | |
| Boorman's Alter Ego | ||
| Alfred | ||
| Conrad Farmer | ||
| The Father | ||
| Lord Percival Graves | ||
| 1990 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bird' O'Donnell | ||
| Actor | ||
| Charles Rutherford | ||
| Chris Mullin | ||
| La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice) | ||
| 1989 | Robert Burger | |
| N/A | ||
| Stephen Ward | ||
| Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice) | ||
| 1988 | Lucien Metz | |
| The Storyteller | ||
| The Storyteller | ||
| Granville Jones | ||
| 1987 | Gilbert Colville | |
| (voice) | ||
| The Actor | ||
| John Hurt | ||
| The Narrator (voice) | ||
| Douglas Benoit | ||
| N/A | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1986 | Bill | |
| N/A | ||
| Syd | ||
| 1985 | Narrator (voice) | |
| The Horned King (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Peter Hunningford | ||
| 1984 | Winston Smith | |
| Braddock | ||
| Dino Montecurva | ||
| Bob Champion | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1983 | Narrator | |
| Lawrence Fassett | ||
| The Fool | ||
| 1982 | Snitter (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| Kerwin | ||
| Peter Strelzyk | ||
| 1981 | Jesus - The Roman Empire | |
| 1980 | Billy Irvine | |
| John Merrick | ||
| Host | ||
| 1979 | Kane | |
| N/A | ||
| 1978 | Aragorn (voice) | |
| Hazel (voice) | ||
| Max | ||
| Anthony Fielding | ||
| 1977 | Atkinson | |
| Nash | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lt. George Simmonds | ||
| Mitri Cyon | ||
| 1976 | N/A | |
| Caligula | ||
| Chandler | ||
| 1975 | Quentin Crisp | |
| Tom Rawlings | ||
| Tony Grey | ||
| 1974 | Malcolm Scrawdyke | |
| Narrator | ||
| Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon) | ||
| 1973 | Joshua Harlborough | |
| 1972 | Franz | |
| 1971 | James Parkin | |
| Richard Forbush | ||
| Timothy Evans | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1970 | Alec Cassell | |
| 1969 | Daniel | |
| Davey Haggart | ||
| Lieutenant Pilkington | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| 1966 | Richard Rich | |
| 1965 | Freddy Tisdale | |
| 1964 | Charlie | |
| 1962 | Phil Corbett | |
| 1956 | Joe | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
