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John Vincent Hurt, CBE (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017) 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.
Movie | Damascus Cover | Miki | 2017-10-23 |
Movie | The Journey | Harry Patterson | 2017-03-30 |
Movie | My Name Is Lenny | Leslie Salmon | 2017-06-09 |
Movie | That Good Night | Ralph | 2017-06-20 |
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 |
Movie | Jackie | The Priest | 2016-12-02 |
Movie | The Alchemist's Letter | The Alchemist (voice) | 2015-04-21 |
Movie | A.K.A Nadia | 347 | 2015-07-01 |
Movie | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie | Sailor John (voice) | 2015-07-17 |
Series | The Last Panthers | Tom | 2015-11-12 |
Movie | Hercules | Cotys | 2014-07-23 |
Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
Movie | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Kingsley Bedford | 2013-07-25 |
Movie | Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict | Narrator (voice) | 2013-05-24 |
Movie | Charlie Countryman | Narrator | 2013-02-09 |
Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Christopher Marlowe | 2013-12-12 |
Movie | Snowpiercer | Gilliam | 2013-08-01 |
Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | The War Doctor (archive voice) | 2013-11-23 |
Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
Movie | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-23 |
Movie | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-14 |
Movie | The Snipist | The Ministry | 2012-05-24 |
Movie | More Than Honey | Narrator (english voice) | 2012-08-11 |
Movie | Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | Narrator (voice) | 2012-08-19 |
Series | Labyrinth | Audric Baillard | 2012-11-24 |
Movie | Sightseers | Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2012-11-30 |
Movie | Melancholia | Dexter | 2011-05-26 |
Movie | The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa | Narrador | 2011-07-05 |
Series | The Confession | Priest | 2011-03-28 |
Movie | Sailcloth | Man | 2011-01-01 |
Movie | 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes | Professor Orit | 2011-07-09 |
Series | Human Planet | Narrator (voice) | 2011-01-13 |
Movie | The Confession | Priest | 2011-05-02 |
Movie | Immortals | Old Zeus | 2011-11-10 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Ollivander | 2011-07-12 |
Movie | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Control | 2011-09-16 |
Movie | In Love with Alma Cogan | MC | 2011-10-04 |
Series | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator (voice) | 2011-09-14 |
Movie | The Gruffalo's Child | The Owl (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
Movie | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures | Grandpa Sammy (voice) | 2010-08-04 |
Movie | Lou | Doyle | 2010-06-17 |
Movie | Brighton Rock | Phil Corkery | 2010-09-13 |
Movie | Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie | Carnak | 2010-12-10 |
Movie | Love at First Sight | Arthur | 2010-11-16 |
Movie | Whistle and I'll Come to You | James Parkin | 2010-12-24 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Ollivander | 2010-11-17 |
Movie | An Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp | 2009-04-27 |
Movie | The Limits of Control | Guitar | 2009-05-01 |
Movie | Waking Sleeping Beauty | The Horned King (voice) (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
Movie | 44 Inch Chest | Old Man Peanut | 2009-10-08 |
Movie | The Gruffalo | Owl (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
Movie | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Harold Oxley | 2008-05-21 |
Movie | Outlander | Rothgar | 2008-04-24 |
Movie | The Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | Recount | Warren Christopher | 2008-05-25 |
Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Trevor Bruttenholm | 2008-07-11 |
Movie | Lecture 21 | 2008-10-17 | |
Series | Merlin | The Great Dragon (voice) | 2008-09-20 |
Movie | New York, I Love You | Bellhop | 2008-09-06 |
Movie | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice) | 2007-03-10 |
Series | Masters of Science Fiction | Unknown | 2007-08-04 |
Movie | Boxes | Le père de Fanny | 2007-06-06 |
Movie | V for Vendetta | Chancellor Adam Sutler | 2006-02-23 |
Movie | The Plot Against Harold Wilson | Narrator (voice) | 2006-03-16 |
Movie | Shooting Dogs | Christopher | 2006-03-08 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Narrator (voice) | 2006-09-13 |
Series | Doctor Who | The War Doctor | 2005-03-26 |
Movie | Manderlay | Narrator (voice) | 2005-06-03 |
Movie | Valiant | Felix (voice) | 2005-03-25 |
Movie | Short Order | 2005-01-01 | |
Movie | The Skeleton Key | Ben Devereaux | 2005-07-29 |
Movie | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb | 2005-10-06 |
Movie | Hiroshima | Narrator (voice) | 2005-08-06 |
Series | The Alan Clark Diaries | Alan Clark | 2004-01-15 |
Movie | Pride | Harry (voice) | 2004-06-21 |
Movie | Hellboy | Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | 2004-04-02 |
Movie | Shadowing the Third Man | Narrator (voice) | 2004-10-11 |
Movie | Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation | Self | 2004-07-27 |
Movie | Owning Mahowny | Victor Foss | 2003-05-02 |
Movie | Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill | Man from Maybury Hill | 2003-05-08 |
Movie | Dogville | Narrator (voice) | 2003-05-21 |
Movie | The Beast Within: Making Alien | Self | 2003-12-02 |
Movie | Miranda | Christian | 2002-01-18 |
Movie | Bait | Jack Blake | 2002-02-20 |
Movie | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry, chief investigator | 2002-06-01 |
Series | HypaSpace | Self | 2002-05-13 |
Movie | The Alien Saga | Narrator (voice) | 2002-11-13 |
Movie | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis | 2001-04-18 |
Movie | Tabloid | Vince | 2001-01-01 |
Movie | The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm | Narrator (voice) | 2001-04-07 |
Movie | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Mr. Ollivander | 2001-11-16 |
Movie | Shaolin: Wheel of Life | Narrator (voice) | 2001-12-11 |
Movie | The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed | Self | 2001-12-11 |
Movie | The Tigger Movie | Narrator (voice) | 2000-02-11 |
Movie | Lost Souls | Father Lareaux | 2000-10-13 |
Movie | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | 2000-09-08 |
Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort | 1999-09-28 |
Movie | A Monkey's Tale | Sebastian (voice) | 1999-06-02 |
Movie | All the Little Animals | Mr. Summers | 1999-07-09 |
Movie | One Last Score | Sean Cooper | 1999-09-29 |
Movie | New Blood | Alan White | 1999-11-15 |
Movie | You're Dead... | Maitland | 1999-10-01 |
Movie | The Commissioner | James morton | 1998-02-22 |
Movie | Night Train | Michael Poole | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Love and Death on Long Island | Giles De'Ath | 1998-07-03 |
Movie | The Climb | Chuck Langer | 1998-03-11 |
Movie | Contact | S. R. Hadden | 1997-07-11 |
Movie | Bandyta | Babits | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | Tender Loving Care | Dr. Turner | 1996-05-16 |
Movie | Rob Roy | John Graham | 1995-04-13 |
Movie | On Jupiter | Narrator (voice) | 1995-08-03 |
Movie | Two Nudes Bathing | Marquis de Prey | 1995-03-24 |
Movie | Dead Man | John Scholfield | 1995-12-23 |
Movie | Wild Bill | Charley Prince | 1995-12-01 |
Movie | Saigon Baby | Jack Lee | 1995-12-16 |
Movie | Great Moments in Aviation | Rex Goodyear | 1994-05-01 |
Movie | Thumbelina | Mr. Mole (voice) | 1994-03-29 |
Movie | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess | 1994-05-13 |
Movie | Second Best | Uncle Turpin | 1994-09-30 |
Movie | The World of Jim Henson | The Storyteller (archive footage) | 1994-11-23 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
Movie | Monolith | Villano | 1993-05-27 |
Movie | Dark at Noon | Anthony / Le Marquis | 1992-10-01 |
Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Father | 1992-12-12 |
Movie | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves | 1991-02-15 |
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 | Red Fox | Archie Carpenter | 1991-12-08 |
Movie | Who Bombed Birmingham? | Chris Mullin | 1990-04-22 |
Movie | Romeo.Juliet | La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
Movie | Resident Alien | Actor | 1990-09-14 |
Movie | Windprints | Charles Rutherford | 1990-06-29 |
Movie | Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool | Narrator (voice) | 1990-12-17 |
Movie | Frankenstein Unbound | Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice) | 1990-11-02 |
Movie | The Field | Bird' O'Donnell | 1990-09-21 |
Movie | Scandal | Stephen Ward | 1989-03-03 |
Movie | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
Series | The Jim Henson Hour | 1989-04-14 | |
Movie | Little Sweetheart | Robert Burger | 1989-10-19 |
Movie | Deadline | Granville Jones | 1988-01-01 |
Series | The Storyteller | The Storyteller | 1988-05-15 |
Movie | The Bengali Night | Lucien Metz | 1988-10-26 |
Movie | The Hunting of the Snark | The Narrator (voice) | 1987-04-01 |
Movie | Spaceballs | John Hurt | 1987-06-24 |
Movie | From the Hip | Douglas Benoit | 1987-02-06 |
Movie | Frightmares | 1987-01-01 | |
Movie | White Mischief | Gilbert Colville | 1987-11-10 |
Movie | Vincent | (voice) | 1987-10-08 |
Movie | Aria | The Actor | 1987-09-15 |
Movie | Jake Speed | Syd | 1986-05-30 |
Movie | Rocinante | Bill | 1986-11-01 |
Movie | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford | 1985-02-01 |
Movie | Live Aid | Self | 1985-07-13 |
Movie | The Black Cauldron | The Horned King (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
Movie | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | Narrator (voice) | 1985-12-03 |
Movie | Success Is the Best Revenge | Dino Montecurva | 1984-05-26 |
Movie | Champions | Bob Champion | 1984-04-20 |
Movie | The Hit | Braddock | 1984-09-07 |
Movie | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith | 1984-11-09 |
Movie | King Lear | The Fool | 1983-04-03 |
Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
Movie | The Osterman Weekend | Lawrence Fassett | 1983-10-14 |
Movie | Partners | Kerwin | 1982-04-30 |
Movie | Night Crossing | Peter Strelzyk | 1982-02-05 |
Movie | The Plague Dogs | Snitter (voice) | 1982-10-21 |
Movie | History of the World: Part I | Jesus - The Roman Empire | 1981-06-12 |
Movie | An Evening with Quentin Crisp | Host | 1980-01-01 |
Movie | The Elephant Man | John Merrick | 1980-10-09 |
Movie | Heaven's Gate | Billy Irvine | 1980-11-19 |
Series | Crime and Punishment | 1979-05-22 | |
Movie | Alien | Kane | 1979-05-25 |
Movie | The Shout | Anthony Fielding | 1978-06-16 |
Movie | Midnight Express | Max | 1978-08-31 |
Movie | Watership Down | Hazel (voice) | 1978-10-14 |
Movie | The Lord of the Rings | Aragorn (voice) | 1978-11-15 |
Series | The Hollywood Greats | Unknown | 1977-08-04 |
Movie | Spectre | Mitri Cyon | 1977-05-21 |
Movie | Three Dangerous Ladies | Lt. George Simmonds | 1977-06-05 |
Movie | The Disappearance | Atkinson | 1977-11-30 |
Movie | East of Elephant Rock | Nash | 1977-10-22 |
Movie | Stream Line | Chandler | 1976-05-06 |
Series | I, Claudius | Caligula | 1976-09-20 |
Series | The Sweeney | Unknown | 1975-01-02 |
Movie | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | 1975-12-17 |
Movie | The Ghoul | Tom Rawlings | 1975-07-11 |
Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |
Movie | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Malcolm Scrawdyke | 1974-06-11 |
Series | Wessex Tales | Unknown | 1973-11-07 |
Movie | The Pied Piper | Franz | 1972-12-27 |
Movie | 10 Rillington Place | Timothy Evans | 1971-02-10 |
Series | A Ghost Story for Christmas | James Parkin | 1971-12-24 |
Movie | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Richard Forbush | 1971-07-29 |
Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
Movie | Before Winter Comes | Lieutenant Pilkington | 1969-01-17 |
Movie | In Search of Gregory | Daniel | 1969-11-01 |
Movie | Sinful Davey | Davey Haggart | 1969-02-10 |
Movie | The Sailor from Gibraltar | 1967-01-01 | |
Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Richard Rich | 1966-12-13 |
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 |