John Hurt
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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Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Bare Knuckle
2020
Ayamé
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Damascus Cover
2017
as Miki
That Good Night
2017
as Ralph
My Name Is Lenny
2017
as Leslie Salmon
The Journey
2017
as Harry Patterson
Jackie
2016
as The Priest
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
2016
as Siegfried Sassoon
Back to Utopia
2016
as Professor Peter Panludic (voice)
The Final Reel
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
ChickLit
2016
as Francis Bonar
The Last Panthers
2015
as Tom
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
2015
as Sailor John (voice)
A.K.A Nadia
2015
as 347
Break
2015
as Jack
The Alchemist's Letter
2015
as The Alchemist (voice)
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
2015
as Narator
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
2014
as Narrator
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
Hercules
2014
as Cotys
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
as Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
as Self
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013
as The War Doctor
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The War Doctor
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as The War Doctor (archive voice)
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The War Doctor
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
as Self / Stephen Ward
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Snowpiercer
2013
as Gilliam
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
as Kingsley Bedford
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
2013
as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Sightseers
2012
as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Labyrinth
2012
as Audric Baillard
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
2012
as Narrator (voice)
More Than Honey
2012
as Narrator (english voice)
The Hollow Crown
2012
as The Chorus
The Snipist
2012
as The Ministry
The Gruffalo's Child
2011
as The Owl (voice)
Immortals
2011
as Old Zeus
On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
In Love with Alma Cogan
2011
as MC
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as Control
Planet Dinosaur
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Ollivander
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
2011
as Professor Orit
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
2011
as Narrator
Melancholia
2011
as Dexter
The Confession
2011
as Priest
The Confession
2011
as Priest
Human Planet
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Sailcloth
2011
as Man
Whistle and I'll Come to You
2010
as James Parkin
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
2010
as Carnak
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Ollivander
Love at First Sight
2010
as Arthur
Brighton Rock
2010
as Phil Corkery
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
as Self
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)
Lou
2010
as Doyle
The Gruffalo
2009
as Owl (voice)
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Ballybrando
2009
as Self
44 Inch Chest
2009
as Old Man Peanut
Remembrance
2009
as Bellhop
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
The Limits of Control
2009
as Guitar
An Englishman in New York
2009
as Quentin Crisp
Lecture 21
2008
as Mondrian Kilroy
Merlin
2008
as The Great Dragon (voice)
New York, I Love You
2008
as Bellhop
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008
as Trevor Bruttenholm
Recount
2008
as Warren Christopher
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
as Professor Harold Oxley
Outlander
2008
as Rothgar
The Oxford Murders
2008
as Arthur Seldom
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
as Samswope
Boxes
2007
as Le père de Fanny
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
2007
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Interview with John Hurt
2007
as Self
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Whaledreamers
2006
as Self
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Shooting Dogs
2006
as Christopher
V for Vendetta
2006
as Adam Sutler
The Proposition
2005
as Jellon Lamb
Once Upon a Halloween
2005
as The Horned King
Hiroshima
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The Skeleton Key
2005
as Ben Devereaux
Manderlay
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who
2005
as War Doctor
Doctor Who
2005
as The Doctor
Valiant
2005
as Felix (voice)
Short Order
2005
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Shadowing the Third Man
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
2004
as Self
Pride
2004
as Harry (voice)
Hellboy
2004
as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
The Alan Clark Diaries
2004
as Alan Clark
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
Dogville
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2003
as Man from Maybury Hill
Owning Mahowny
2003
as Victor Foss
The Alien Saga
2002
as Narrator (voice)
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
Crime and Punishment
2002
as Porfiry, chief investigator
HypaSpace
2002
as Self
Bait
2002
as Jack Blake
Miranda
2002
as Christian
Edge of the Universe
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Shaolin: Wheel of Life
2001
as Narrator (voice)
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001
as Self
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Mr. Ollivander
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Dr. Iannis
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Tabloid
2001
as Vince
Lost Souls
2000
as Father Lareaux
Krapp's Last Tape
2000
as Krapp
The Tigger Movie
2000
as Narrator (voice)
New Blood
1999
as Alan White
You're Dead...
1999
as Maitland
One Last Score
1999
as Sean Cooper
Watership Down
1999
as General Woundwort
All the Little Animals
1999
as Mr. Summers
Love and Death on Long Island
1998
as Giles De'Ath
The Climb
1998
as Chuck Langer
The Commissioner
1998
as James morton
Night Train
1998
as Michael Poole
Bandyta
1997
as Babits
Contact
1997
as S. R. Hadden
Tender Loving Care
1996
as Dr. Turner
Dead Man
1995
as John Scholfield
Saigon Baby
1995
as Jack Lee
Wild Bill
1995
as Charley Prince
Picture Windows
1995
as Marquis de Prey
On Jupiter
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Rob Roy
1995
as John Graham
Two Nudes Bathing
1995
as Marquis de Prey
The World of Jim Henson
1994
as The Storyteller (archive footage)
Second Best
1994
as Uncle Turpin
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
1994
as Narrator (voice)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as The Countess
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Rex Goodyear
Thumbelina
1994
as Mr. Mole (voice)
Monolith
1993
as Villano
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Father
Dark at Noon
1992
as Anthony / Le Marquis
Red Fox
1991
as Archie Carpenter
I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991
as Boorman's Alter Ego
Journey to Knock
1991
as Alfred
Lapse of Memory
1991
as Conrad Farmer
Performance
1991
as The Father
King Ralph
1991
as Lord Percival Graves
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Frankenstein Unbound
1990
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990
as Self
The Field
1990
as Bird' O'Donnell
Resident Alien
1990
as Actor
Windprints
1990
as Charles Rutherford
Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as Chris Mullin
Romeo.Juliet
1990
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)
Little Sweetheart
1989
as Robert Burger
The Jim Henson Hour
1989
Scandal
1989
as Stephen Ward
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)
The Bengali Night
1988
as Lucien Metz
The Storyteller
1988
as The Storyteller
The Storyteller
1988
as The Storyteller
Deadline
1988
as Granville Jones
White Mischief
1987
as Gilbert Colville
Vincent
1987
as (voice)
Aria
1987
as The Actor
Spaceballs
1987
as John Hurt
The Hunting of the Snark
1987
as The Narrator (voice)
From the Hip
1987
as Douglas Benoit
Iceberg
1987
as Narrator (voice)
Monolith
1987
as Narrator (voice)
Frightmares
1987
Rocinante
1986
as Bill
Thames Film
1986
Jake Speed
1986
as Syd
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
as Narrator (voice)
The Black Cauldron
1985
as The Horned King (voice)
Live Aid
1985
as Self
After Darkness
1985
as Peter Hunningford
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
as Winston Smith
The Hit
1984
as Braddock
Success Is the Best Revenge
1984
as Dino Montecurva
Champions
1984
as Bob Champion
Sunset People
1984
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
The Osterman Weekend
1983
as Lawrence Fassett
King Lear
1983
as The Fool
The Plague Dogs
1982
as Snitter (voice)
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982
Partners
1982
as Kerwin
Night Crossing
1982
as Peter Strelzyk
History of the World: Part I
1981
as Jesus - The Roman Empire
Heaven's Gate
1980
as Billy Irvine
The Elephant Man
1980
as John Merrick
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
1980
as Host
Alien
1979
as Kane
Crime and Punishment
1979
as Raskolnikov
The Lord of the Rings
1978
as Aragorn (voice)
Watership Down
1978
as Hazel (voice)
Midnight Express
1978
as Max
The Shout
1978
as Anthony Fielding
The Disappearance
1977
as Atkinson
East of Elephant Rock
1977
as Nash
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
as Lt. George Simmonds
Spectre
1977
as Mitri Cyon
I, Claudius
1976
I, Claudius
1976
as Caligula
Stream Line
1976
as Chandler
The Peddler
1976
as Alec Cassell
The Naked Civil Servant
1975
as Quentin Crisp
The Ghoul
1975
as Tom Rawlings
The Sweeney
1975
as Tony Grey
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
as Malcolm Scrawdyke
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
The Playboy of the Western World
1974
as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)
Wessex Tales
1973
as Joshua Harlborough
The Pied Piper
1972
as Franz
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as James Parkin
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
as Richard Forbush
10 Rillington Place
1971
as Timothy Evans
Great Performances
1971
as Narrator
Play for Today
1970
as Alec Cassell
In Search of Gregory
1969
as Daniel
Sinful Davey
1969
as Davey Haggart
Before Winter Comes
1969
as Lieutenant Pilkington
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
as John
A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Richard Rich
Gideon's Way
1965
as Freddy Tisdale
This Is My Street
1964
as Charlie
The Wild and the Willing
1962
as Phil Corbett
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Joe
The StoryTeller
as The Storyteller