John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) was an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal and Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, Caligula in the television series, I, Claudius (TV series), and An Englishman in New York. Recognizable for his distinctive rich voice, he has also enjoyed a successful voice acting career, starring in films such as Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings and Dogville, as well as BBC television series Merlin. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, and has since appeared in such popular motion pictures as: Alien, Midnight Express, Rob Roy, V for Vendetta, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Harry Potter film series and the Hellboy film series. Hurt is one of England's best-known, most prolific and sought-after actors, and has had a versatile film career spanning six decades. He is also known for his many Shakespearean roles. Hurt has received multiple awards and honours throughout his career including three BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award, with six and two nominations respectively, as well as two Academy Award nominations. His character's final scene in Alien is consistently named as one of the most memorable in cinematic history.
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- Born:
- Jan 22, 1940 In Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 189
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Wild and the Willing 1962-10-16
- Latest Project:
- Movie Damascus Cover 2018-07-20
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Damascus Cover | Miki | 2018-07-20 |
| Movie | That Good Night | Ralph | 2018-05-05 |
| Movie | My Name Is Lenny | Leslie Salmon | 2017-06-09 |
| Movie | The Journey | Harry Patterson | 2017-03-30 |
| Movie | Jackie | The Priest | 2016-12-02 |
| Movie | ChickLit | Francis Bonar | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets | Siegfried Sassoon | 2016-11-13 |
| Series | The Last Panthers | Tom | 2015-11-12 |
| Movie | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie | Sailor John | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | The Alchemist's Letter | The Alchemist (voice) | 2015-04-21 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Himself | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Hercules | Cotys | 2014-07-23 |
| Movie | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Kingsley Bedford | 2013-07-25 |
| Movie | Charlie Countryman | Narrator | 2013-02-09 |
| Movie | Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict | Narrator | 2013-05-24 |
| Movie | Trencaneu | Gilliam | 2013-08-01 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-14 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Marlowe | 2013-12-12 |
| Movie | Sightseers | Jerusalem Narrator | 2012-11-30 |
| Series | Labyrinth | Audric Baillard | 2012-11-24 |
| Movie | Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | Narrator (voice) | 2012-08-19 |
| Movie | The Confession | Priest | 2011-07-01 |
| Movie | Sailcloth | Man | 2011-01-01 |
| Series | Human Planet | Narrator | 2011-01-13 |
| Movie | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures | Grandpa Sammy (voice) | 2011-03-25 |
| Series | The Confession | Priest | 2011-03-28 |
| Movie | Melancholia | Dexter | 2011-05-26 |
| Series | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator | 2011-09-14 |
| Movie | Harry Potter i les relíquies de la mort: part 2 | Mr. Ollivander | 2011-07-07 |
| Movie | The Gruffalo's Child | The Owl (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes | Professor Orit | 2011-07-09 |
| Movie | El talp | Control | 2011-09-16 |
| Movie | Immortals | Old Zeus | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Brighton Rock | Phil Corkery | 2011-08-26 |
| Movie | Whistle and I'll Come to You | James Parkin | 2010-12-24 |
| Movie | Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie | Carnak | 2010-12-10 |
| Movie | Love at First Sight | Arthur | 2010-11-16 |
| Movie | Lou | Doyle | 2010-06-17 |
| Movie | Harry Potter i les relíquies de la mort: part 1 | Mr. Ollivander | 2010-10-17 |
| Movie | El Grúfal | Owl (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
| Movie | Creating The World of Harry Potter part 1: The Magic Begins | Himself | 2009-11-17 |
| Movie | 44 Inch Chest | Old Man Peanut | 2009-10-08 |
| Movie | The Limits of Control | Guitar | 2009-05-01 |
| Movie | An Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp | 2009-04-27 |
| Movie | Outlander | Rothgar | 2008-04-24 |
| Movie | Lecture 21 | 2008-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Trevor Bruttenholm | 2008-07-11 |
| Movie | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Professor Oxley | 2008-05-22 |
| Movie | Recount | Warren Christopher | 2008-05-28 |
| Movie | New York, I Love You | Bellhop (segment "Shekhar Kapur") | 2008-09-06 |
| Series | Merlin | The Great Dragon (voice) | 2008-09-20 |
| Movie | Boxes | Le père de Fanny | 2007-06-06 |
| Movie | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | 2007-03-10 |
| Movie | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Narrator (voice) | 2007-01-05 |
| Series | Masters of Science Fiction | Unknown | 2007-08-03 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | The Plot Against Harold Wilson | Narrator | 2006-03-16 |
| Movie | V for Vendetta | Chancellor Adam Sutler | 2006-03-15 |
| Movie | Shooting Dogs | Christopher | 2006-03-08 |
| Movie | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | Hiroshima | Narrator (voice) | 2005-08-05 |
| Movie | The Skeleton Key | Ben Devereaux | 2005-07-29 |
| Movie | Manderlay | Narrator (Voice) | 2005-05-16 |
| Series | Doctor Who | The War Doctor | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Valiant | Felix (voice) | 2005-03-25 |
| Movie | The Alan Clark Diaries | 2004-01-15 | |
| Series | The Alan Clark Diaries | 2004-01-15 | |
| Movie | Hellboy | Prof. Bruttenholm | 2004-04-02 |
| Movie | Shadowing the Third Man | Narrator | 2004-10-11 |
| Movie | Pride | Harry (voice) | 2004-06-21 |
| Movie | Owning Mahowny | Victor Foss | 2003-05-02 |
| Movie | Dogville | Narrator (voice) | 2003-05-19 |
| Movie | The Beast Within: Making “Alien” | Himself | 2003-12-02 |
| Movie | Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill | Man from Maybury Hill | 2003-05-08 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry, chief investigator | 2002-06-01 |
| Series | HypaSpace | 2002-05-13 | |
| Movie | Miranda | Christian | 2002-01-18 |
| Movie | The Alien Saga | narrator | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm | Narrator | 2001-04-07 |
| Movie | Tabloid | Vince | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis | 2001-04-18 |
| Movie | Shaolin: Wheel of Life | Narrator | 2001-12-11 |
| Movie | Harry Potter i la pedra filosofal | Garrick Ollivander | 2001-11-16 |
| Movie | Lost Souls | Father Lareaux | 2000-10-13 |
| Movie | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | 2000-09-08 |
| Movie | New Blood | 2000-06-20 | |
| Movie | The Tigger Movie | Narrator | 2000-02-11 |
| Movie | You're Dead | Maitland | 1999-10-01 |
| Movie | If... Dog... Rabbit | Sean Cooper | 1999-09-29 |
| Series | Watership Down | 1999-09-28 | |
| Movie | All the Little Animals | Mr. Summers | 1999-07-09 |
| Movie | Tender Loving Care | Dr. Turner | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Climb | Chuck Langer | 1998-03-11 |
| Movie | Night Train | Michael Poole | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Commissioner | James morton | 1998-02-22 |
| Movie | Bandyta | Babits | 1997-11-07 |
| Movie | Love and Death on Long Island | Giles De'Ath | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Contact | S. R. Hadden | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | On Jupiter | Narrator | 1995-08-03 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | John Graham (Marquis of Montrose) | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Two Nudes Bathing | Marquis de Prey | 1995-03-24 |
| Movie | La llegenda de Wild Bill | Charley Prince | 1995-12-01 |
| Movie | Saigon Baby | 1995-12-16 | |
| Movie | Dead Man | John Scholfield | 1995-12-23 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| Movie | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess | 1994-05-13 |
| Movie | Great Moments in Aviation | Rex Goodyear | 1994-05-01 |
| Movie | Second Best | Uncle Turpin | 1994-09-30 |
| Movie | Monolith | Villano | 1993-05-27 |
| Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Father | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | Dark at Noon | 1992-05-26 | |
| Movie | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves | 1991-02-15 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Archie Carpenter | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Lapse of Memory | Conrad Farmer | 1991-06-02 |
| Movie | Journey to Knock | Alfred | 1991-09-17 |
| Movie | I Dreamt I Woke Up | Boorman's Alter Ego | 1991-11-16 |
| Movie | Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool | Narrator | 1990-12-17 |
| Movie | Frankenstein Unbound | Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator | 1990-11-02 |
| Movie | The Field | Bird' O'Donnell | 1990-09-21 |
| Movie | Resident Alien | Himself | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Windprints | Charles Rutherford | 1990-06-29 |
| Movie | Who Bombed Birmingham? | Chris Mullin | 1990-04-22 |
| Movie | Little Sweetheart | Robert Burger | 1989-10-19 |
| Series | The Jim Henson Hour | 1989-04-14 | |
| Movie | Scandal | Stephen Ward | 1989-03-03 |
| Series | The Storyteller | The Storyteller | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Deadline | Granville Jones | 1988-01-01 |
| Movie | White Mischief | Gilbert Colville | 1987-11-30 |
| Movie | Vincent | (voice) | 1987-10-08 |
| Movie | Spaceballs | John Hurt | 1987-06-24 |
| Movie | Aria | The Actor | 1987-05-27 |
| Movie | The Hunting of the Snark | The Narrator | 1987-04-01 |
| Movie | From the Hip | Douglas Benoit | 1987-02-06 |
| Movie | Frightmares | 1987-01-01 | |
| Movie | Rocinante | Bill | 1986-11-01 |
| Movie | Jake Speed | Syd | 1986-05-30 |
| Movie | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford | 1985-02-01 |
| Movie | The Hit | Braddock | 1985-03-08 |
| Movie | Live Aid | 1985-07-13 | |
| Movie | The Black Cauldron | The Horned King (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | Narrator | 1985-12-03 |
| Movie | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith | 1984-10-10 |
| Movie | Success Is the Best Revenge | 1984-05-26 | |
| Movie | Champions | Bob Champion | 1984-04-20 |
| Movie | The Plague Dogs | Snitter (voice) | 1983-12-17 |
| Movie | Unknown | Lawrence Fassett | 1983-10-14 |
| Movie | King Lear | The Fool | 1983-04-03 |
| Movie | Partners | Kerwin | 1982-04-30 |
| Movie | Night Crossing | Peter Strelzyk | 1982-02-05 |
| Movie | History of the World: Part I | Jesus - The Roman Empire | 1981-06-12 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Billy Irvine | 1980-11-19 |
| Movie | The Elephant Man | John Merrick | 1980-10-02 |
| Movie | An Evening with Quentin Crisp | Himself / Presenter | 1980-01-01 |
| Movie | Alien | Gilbert Ward Kane | 1979-05-25 |
| Series | Crime and Punishment | 1979-05-22 | |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings | Aragorn (voice) | 1978-11-15 |
| Movie | Watership Down | Hazel (voice) | 1978-10-14 |
| Movie | Midnight Express | Max | 1978-09-12 |
| Movie | The Shout | Anthony Fielding | 1978-01-01 |
| Movie | Spectre | Mitri Cyon | 1977-05-21 |
| Movie | Three Dangerous Ladies | Lt. George Simmonds | 1977-06-05 |
| Series | The Hollywood Greats | Unknown | 1977-08-04 |
| Movie | East of Elephant Rock | Nash | 1977-10-22 |
| Movie | The Disappearance | 1977-11-30 | |
| Movie | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | 1976-11-01 |
| Series | I, Claudius | Caligula | 1976-09-20 |
| Movie | The Ghoul | Tom Rawlings | 1975-07-11 |
| Series | The Sweeney | Unknown | 1975-01-02 |
| Movie | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Malcolm Scrawdyke | 1974-06-11 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |
| Series | Wessex Tales | Unknown | 1973-11-07 |
| Movie | The Pied Piper | Franz | 1972-12-27 |
| Movie | 10 Rillington Place | Timothy Evans | 1971-02-10 |
| Movie | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Richard Forbush | 1971-07-29 |
| Series | A Ghost Story for Christmas | James Parkin | 1971-12-24 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Movie | In Search of Gregory | Daniel | 1969-11-01 |
| Movie | Before Winter Comes | Lieutenant Pilkington | 1969-03-24 |
| Movie | Sinful Davey | Davey Haggart | 1969-02-10 |
| Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1967-12-10 |
| Movie | The Sailor from Gibraltar | 1967-01-01 | |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Richard Rich | 1966-12-12 |
| Series | Gideon's Way | Unknown | 1965-03-18 |
| Movie | This Is My Street | Charlie | 1964-01-15 |
| Movie | The Wild and the Willing | Phil Corbett | 1962-10-16 |