John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Hurt , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jan 22, 1940 In Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 185
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Golden Boy 1939-09-05
- Latest Project:
- Series Winter Begonia 2020-03-20
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Winter Begonia | Charles Rutherford | 2020-03-20 |
| Movie | That Good Night | Ralph | 2018-05-05 |
| Movie | Damascus Cover | Miki | 2018-07-20 |
| Movie | Darkest Hour | Neville Chamberlain | 2017-11-22 |
| Movie | My Name Is Lenny | Leslie Salmon | 2017-06-09 |
| Series | Little Women | Kerwin | 2017-12-26 |
| Series | Number 1 Single | Babits | 2016 |
| Movie | The Legend of Tarzan | 2016-06-06 | |
| Movie | Jackie | The Priest | 2016-12-02 |
| Series | 88 Street | Malcolm Scrawdyke | 2016-10-17 |
| Movie | The Alchemist's Letter | The Alchemist (voice) | 2015-04-21 |
| Series | Anclados | Phil Corkery | 2015-05-25 |
| Series | The Last Panthers | Tom | 2015-11-12 |
| Movie | The Last Panthers | Tom Kendle | 2015-10-26 |
| Movie | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie | Sailor John | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | Hercules | Cotys | 2014-07-23 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Himself | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict | Narrator | 2013-05-24 |
| Series | Broadchurch | Narrator (voice) | 2013-03-04 |
| Movie | Charlie Countryman | Narrator | 2013-02-09 |
| Movie | Snowpiercer | Gilliam | 2013-08-01 |
| Movie | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Kingsley Bedford | 2013-07-25 |
| Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Marlowe | 2013-12-12 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | 2013-11-23 | |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Himself | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | Narrator (voice) | 2012-08-19 |
| Movie | The Hollow Crown: Henry V | The Chorus | 2012-07-21 |
| Movie | Sightseers | Jerusalem Narrator (uncredited) | 2012-11-30 |
| Series | The Confession | Priest | 2011-03-28 |
| Movie | Melancholia | Dexter | 2011-05-26 |
| Movie | Human Planet | Narrator | 2011-01-13 |
| Series | Human Planet | Narrator | 2011-01-13 |
| Movie | Sailcloth | Man | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | The Confession | Priest | 2011-07-01 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Mr. Ollivander | 2011-07-07 |
| Movie | The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa | Narrador | 2011-07-05 |
| Movie | The Gruffalo's Child | The Owl (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | In Love with Alma Cogan | MC | 2011-10-04 |
| Movie | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator | 2011-10-19 |
| Movie | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Control | 2011-09-16 |
| Series | Doubles Poker Championship | Old Zeus | 2010-08-14 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Mr. Ollivander | 2010-10-17 |
| Movie | Love at First Sight | Arthur | 2010-11-16 |
| Movie | An Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp | 2009-04-27 |
| Movie | The Limits of Control | Guitar | 2009-05-01 |
| Movie | 44 Inch Chest | Old Man Peanut | 2009-10-08 |
| Movie | Creating The World of Harry Potter. Part 1: The Magic Begins | Himself | 2009-11-17 |
| Movie | The Gruffalo | Owl (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
| Movie | The Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | Lecture 21 | 2008-01-01 | |
| Movie | Outlander | Rothgar | 2008-04-24 |
| Movie | Recount | Warren Christopher | 2008-05-25 |
| Series | Merlin | The Great Dragon (voice) | 2008-09-20 |
| Movie | New York, I Love You | Bellhop (segment "Shekhar Kapur") | 2008-09-06 |
| Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Trevor Bruttenholm | 2008-07-11 |
| Movie | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | 2007-03-10 |
| Movie | Boxes | Le père de Fanny | 2007-06-06 |
| Series | Mission: Man Band | Douglas Benoit | 2007-08-06 |
| Series | Masters of Science Fiction | Unknown | 2007-08-03 |
| Movie | Death at a Funeral | Unknown | 2007-08-17 |
| Movie | Shooting Dogs | Christopher | 2006-03-08 |
| Movie | V for Vendetta | Chancellor Adam Sutler | 2006-02-23 |
| Movie | The Plot Against Harold Wilson | Narrator | 2006-03-16 |
| Series | Casado con hijos | Victor Foss | 2006-05-02 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Unknown | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Hiroshima | Narrator (voice) | 2005-08-05 |
| Movie | Manderlay | Narrator (Voice) | 2005-05-16 |
| Series | But Can They Sing? | Father Lareaux | 2005-10-30 |
| Movie | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb | 2005-10-06 |
| Series | The Alan Clark Diaries | 2004-01-15 | |
| Movie | Hellboy | Prof. Bruttenholm | 2004-04-02 |
| Movie | The Alan Clark Diaries | 2004-01-15 | |
| Movie | Born to Fight | 2004-08-05 | |
| Movie | Pride | Harry (voice) | 2004-06-21 |
| Movie | Dogville | Narrator (voice) | 2003-05-19 |
| Movie | BIONICLE: Mask of Light | Unknown | 2003-09-15 |
| Movie | The Beast Within: Making 'Alien' | Himself | 2003-12-02 |
| Movie | The Alien Saga | narrator | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | Miranda | Christian | 2002-01-18 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry, chief investigator | 2002-06-01 |
| Series | HypaSpace | Himself | 2002-05-13 |
| Series | Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme | Grandpa Sammy (voice) | 2002-09-02 |
| Series | Beautiful Days | Felix (voice) | 2001-03-14 |
| Movie | Tabloid | Vince | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm | Narrator | 2001-04-07 |
| Movie | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis | 2001-04-18 |
| Movie | Shaolin: Wheel of Life | Narrator | 2001-12-11 |
| Series | Moolah Beach | Garrick Ollivander | 2001-09-08 |
| Movie | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | 2000-09-08 |
| Series | Watership Down | 1999-09-28 | |
| Movie | All the Little Animals | Mr. Summers | 1999-07-09 |
| Movie | You're Dead... | Maitland | 1999-10-01 |
| Movie | One Last Score | Sean Cooper | 1999-09-29 |
| Movie | New Blood | Alan White | 1999-11-15 |
| Movie | Night Train | Michael Poole | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Climb | Chuck Langer | 1998-03-11 |
| Movie | Hush | Unknown | 1998-03-06 |
| Series | Independent Focus | Doyle | 1998-09-09 |
| Series | SMTV Live | Kane | 1998-08-29 |
| Movie | Love and Death on Long Island | Giles De'Ath | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Contact | S. R. Hadden | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | John Graham (Marquis of Montrose) | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | On Jupiter | Narrator | 1995-08-03 |
| Movie | Dead Man | John Scholfield | 1995-12-23 |
| Movie | Wild Bill | Charley Prince | 1995-12-01 |
| Movie | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess | 1994-05-13 |
| Movie | Great Moments in Aviation | Rex Goodyear | 1994-05-01 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Professor Oxley | 1994-06-01 |
| Movie | Second Best | Uncle Turpin | 1994-09-30 |
| Movie | The World of Jim Henson | The Storyteller (archive footage) | 1994-11-23 |
| 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 | Lapse of Memory | Conrad Farmer | 1991-06-02 |
| Movie | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves | 1991-02-15 |
| Movie | Journey to Knock | Alfred | 1991-09-17 |
| Movie | Who Bombed Birmingham? | Chris Mullin | 1990-04-22 |
| Movie | Prom Night III: The Last Kiss | Unknown | 1990-03-30 |
| Movie | Resident Alien | Himself | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Frankenstein Unbound | Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator | 1990-11-02 |
| Movie | Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool | Narrator | 1990-12-17 |
| Movie | The Field | Bird' O'Donnell | 1990-09-21 |
| Movie | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice) | 1989-01-04 |
| Movie | Scandal | Stephen Ward | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Jim Henson's The Storyteller | The Storyteller | 1989-04-28 |
| Movie | Little Sweetheart | Robert Burger | 1989-10-19 |
| Movie | Deadline | Granville Jones | 1988-01-01 |
| Series | The Storyteller | 1988-05-15 | |
| Movie | The Hunting of the Snark | The Narrator | 1987-04-01 |
| Movie | Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise | Shitotsugh Lhadatt (English Dub) | 1987-03-14 |
| Movie | Aria | The Actor | 1987-05-27 |
| Movie | Vincent | (voice) | 1987-10-08 |
| Movie | Spaceballs | Kane | 1987-06-24 |
| Movie | White Mischief | Gilbert Colville | 1987-11-30 |
| Movie | Rocinante | Bill | 1986-11-01 |
| Movie | Jake Speed | Syd | 1986-05-30 |
| Series | The Octopuses from the Second Floor | Carnak | 1986-12-21 |
| Movie | Live Aid | 1985-07-13 | |
| Movie | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford | 1985-02-01 |
| Movie | The Black Cauldron | The Horned King (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | Narrator | 1985-12-03 |
| Movie | Success Is the Best Revenge | 1984-05-26 | |
| Movie | Champions | Bob Champion | 1984-04-20 |
| Movie | The Hit | Braddock | 1984-09-12 |
| Movie | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith | 1984-10-10 |
| Movie | King Lear | The Fool | 1983-04-03 |
| Series | Natural World | Unknown | 1983-10-30 |
| Movie | The Osterman Weekend | Lawrence Fassett | 1983-10-14 |
| 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 |
| Series | Seeing Things | Ben Devereaux | 1981-09-15 |
| Movie | The Elephant Man | John Merrick | 1980-10-02 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Billy Irvine | 1980-11-19 |
| Series | Crime and Punishment | 1979-05-22 | |
| Movie | Midnight Express | Max | 1978-08-31 |
| Movie | The Shout | Anthony Fielding | 1978-06-16 |
| 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 |
| Series | I, Claudius | 1976-09-20 | |
| Movie | 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 |
| Movie | The Pied Piper | Franz | 1972-12-27 |
| Movie | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Richard Forbush | 1971-07-29 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Series | Percy Stuart | Timothy Evans | 1969-03-12 |
| Movie | Sinful Davey | Davey Haggart | 1969-02-10 |
| Movie | Before Winter Comes | Lieutenant Pilkington | 1969-03-24 |
| Movie | In Search of Gregory | Daniel | 1969-11-01 |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Richard Rich | 1966-12-12 |
| Movie | This Is My Street | Charlie | 1964-01-15 |
| Movie | The Wild and the Willing | Phil Corbett | 1962-10-16 |
| Series | M Squad | Unknown | 1957-09-20 |
| Movie | Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders | 1953-07-08 | |
| Movie | Golden Boy | Audric Baillard | 1939-09-05 |