John Hurt

🎂 Data nașterii: 1940-01-22 (Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK)

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.

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John Hurt

Filme în care a jucat

The Lord of the Rings

Indiana Jones și regatul craniului de cristal

Un om pentru toate anotimpurile

Dead Man

Spaceballs

Bandyta

Parfumul: Povestea unei crime

Hellboy: Eroul scăpat din Infern

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

History of the World: Part I

Harry Potter și Piatra Filozofală

Contact

V de la Vendetta

Străinul

Frankenstein Unbound

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Plantația Manderlay

Omul elefant

King Ralph

Poarta Raiului

You're Dead...

The Plague Dogs

Băiatul Iadului și Armata de Aur

From the Hip

Rob Roy

Watership Down

The Field

Shooting Dogs

The Limits of Control

The Alien Saga

Scandal

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

The Osterman Weekend

10 Rillington Place

Crimele din Oxford

Aria

Harry Potter și Talismanele Morții: Partea 1

Harry Potter și Talismanele Morții: Partea 2

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

The Commissioner

Chiar și văcărițele se întristează

Cheia schelet

The Gruffalo

An Englishman in New York

The Naked Civil Servant

44 Inch Chest

Viteaz

Alegeri americane

White Mischief

Owning Mahowny

Once Upon a Halloween

Brighton Rock

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

Melancolia

Nemuritorii: Războiul zeilor

Propunerea

Love and Death on Long Island

King Lear

Wild Bill

Hiroshima

All the Little Animals

Un spion care știa prea multe

Shaolin: Wheel of Life

The Hit

Miranda

Lezione ventuno

The Hunting of the Snark

The Beast Within: Making Alien

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie

The Ghoul

Lou

Krapp's Last Tape

The Gruffalo's Child

Partners

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation