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:
- 201
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Wild and the Willing 1962-10-16
- Latest Project:
- Movie Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2022-11-27
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-27 |
| Movie | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Don Quixote | 2018-05-19 |
| Movie | The Journey | Harry Patterson | 2017-03-30 |
| Movie | My Name Is Lenny | Leslie Salmon | 2017-06-09 |
| Movie | Damascus Cover | Miki | 2017-10-23 |
| Movie | That Good Night | Ralph | 2017-06-20 |
| Movie | The Legend of Tarzan | 2016-06-29 | |
| Movie | Jackie | The Priest | 2016-12-02 |
| Movie | The Alchemist's Letter | The Alchemist (voice) | 2015-04-21 |
| Movie | A.K.A Nadia | 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 | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Hercules | Cotys | 2014-07-23 |
| Movie | Snowpiercer | Gilliam | 2013-08-01 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | Charlie Countryman | Narrator (voice) | 2013-02-09 |
| Movie | Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips | 2013-09-28 | |
| Movie | Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict | Narrator (voice) | 2013-05-24 |
| Movie | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Kingsley Bedford | 2013-07-25 |
| 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 Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | The War Doctor (archive voice) | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Christopher Marlowe | 2013-12-12 |
| Movie | Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Snipist | The Ministry | 2012-05-24 |
| Movie | Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | Narrator (voice) | 2012-08-19 |
| Movie | Sightseers | Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2012-11-30 |
| Series | Labyrinth | Audric Baillard | 2012-11-24 |
| Movie | Melancholia | Dexter | 2011-05-26 |
| Movie | The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa | Narrador | 2011-07-05 |
| Movie | The Confession | Priest | 2011-07-01 |
| Series | The Confession | Priest | 2011-03-28 |
| Movie | Sailcloth | Man | 2011-01-01 |
| Series | Human Planet | Narrator (voice) | 2011-01-13 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Ollivander | 2011-07-07 |
| Movie | In Love with Alma Cogan | MC | 2011-10-04 |
| Movie | 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes | Professor Orit | 2011-07-09 |
| Movie | The Gruffalo's Child | The Owl (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | On Borrowed Time | Self | 2011-11-04 |
| Movie | Immortals | Old Zeus | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Control | 2011-09-16 |
| Series | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator (voice) | 2011-09-14 |
| Movie | Brighton Rock | Phil Corkery | 2010-09-13 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Ollivander | 2010-10-06 |
| Movie | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures | Grandpa Sammy (voice) | 2010-08-03 |
| Movie | Lou | Doyle | 2010-06-17 |
| Movie | Love at First Sight | Arthur | 2010-11-16 |
| 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 | 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 | Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World | Self (archive footage) | 2009-12-15 |
| Movie | The Gruffalo | Owl (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
| Movie | 44 Inch Chest | Old Man Peanut | 2009-10-08 |
| Movie | Outlander | Rothgar | 2008-04-24 |
| Movie | The Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | Lecture 21 | 2008-01-01 | |
| Movie | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Professor Oxley | 2008-05-21 |
| Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Trevor Bruttenholm | 2008-07-11 |
| Movie | Recount | Warren Christopher | 2008-05-25 |
| Movie | New York, I Love You | Bellhop (segment "Shekhar Kapur") | 2008-09-06 |
| Series | Merlin | The Great Dragon (voice) | 2008-09-20 |
| Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
| Movie | Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice) | 2007-03-10 |
| Movie | Boxes | Le père de Fanny | 2007-06-06 |
| Series | Masters of Science Fiction | Unknown | 2007-08-04 |
| Movie | Shooting Dogs | Christopher | 2006-03-08 |
| Movie | The Plot Against Harold Wilson | Narrator (voice) | 2006-03-16 |
| Movie | V for Vendetta | Chancellor Adam Sutler | 2006-02-23 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Narrator (voice) | 2006-09-13 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Kriegs-Doctor | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Manderlay | Narrator (Voice) | 2005-05-16 |
| Movie | Valiant | Felix (voice) | 2005-03-25 |
| Movie | The Skeleton Key | Ben Devereaux | 2005-07-29 |
| Movie | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | Hiroshima | Narrator (voice) | 2005-08-05 |
| Series | The Alan Clark Diaries | Alan Clark | 2004-01-15 |
| Movie | Hellboy | Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | 2004-04-02 |
| Movie | Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation | Self | 2004-07-27 |
| Movie | Pride | Harry (voice) | 2004-06-21 |
| Movie | Shadowing the Third Man | Narrator (voice) | 2004-10-11 |
| 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 | The Beast Within: Making 'Alien' | Self | 2003-12-02 |
| Movie | Dogville | Narrator (voice) | 2003-05-19 |
| Series | HypaSpace | Self | 2002-05-13 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry, chief investigator | 2002-06-01 |
| Movie | Miranda | Christian | 2002-01-18 |
| Movie | I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | 2002-09-30 |
| Movie | The Alien Saga | Narrator (voice) | 2002-11-13 |
| Movie | The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm | Narrator (voice) | 2001-04-07 |
| Movie | Tabloid | Vince | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Mr. Ollivander | 2001-11-16 |
| Movie | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis | 2001-04-18 |
| Movie | Shaolin: Wheel of Life | Narrator (voice) | 2001-12-11 |
| Movie | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | 2000-09-08 |
| Movie | The Tigger Movie | Narrator (voice) | 2000-02-11 |
| Movie | Lost Souls | Father Lareaux | 2000-10-13 |
| Movie | A Monkey's Tale | Sebastian (voice) | 1999-06-02 |
| Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort | 1999-09-28 |
| 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 | Night Train | Michael Poole | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Commissioner | James morton | 1998-02-22 |
| 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 | Rob Roy | John Graham | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Wild Bill | Charley Prince | 1995-12-01 |
| Movie | On Jupiter | Narrator (voice) | 1995-08-03 |
| Movie | Saigon Baby | 1995-12-16 | |
| Movie | Dead Man | John Scholfield | 1995-12-23 |
| 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 | The World of Jim Henson | The Storyteller (archive footage) | 1994-11-23 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
| Movie | Second Best | Uncle Turpin | 1994-09-30 |
| Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Monolith | Villano | 1993-05-27 |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Father | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | Dark at Noon | Anthony / Le Marquis | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Archie Carpenter | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves | 1991-02-15 |
| Movie | Journey to Knock | Alfred | 1991-09-17 |
| Movie | Lapse of Memory | Conrad Farmer | 1991-06-02 |
| Movie | Windprints | Charles Rutherford | 1990-06-29 |
| Movie | Romeo.Juliet | La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | Resident Alien | Actor | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Who Bombed Birmingham? | Chris Mullin | 1990-04-22 |
| Movie | The Field | Bird' O'Donnell | 1990-09-21 |
| Movie | Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool | Narrator (voice) | 1990-12-17 |
| Movie | Frankenstein Unbound | Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice) | 1990-11-02 |
| 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 | Spaceballs | Kane | 1987-06-24 |
| Movie | From the Hip | Douglas Benoit | 1987-02-06 |
| Movie | Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise | Shitotsugh Lhadatt (English Dub) | 1987-03-14 |
| Movie | The Hunting of the Snark | The Narrator (voice) | 1987-04-01 |
| Movie | Aria | The Actor | 1987-09-15 |
| Movie | White Mischief | Gilbert Colville | 1987-11-10 |
| Movie | Vincent | (voice) | 1987-10-08 |
| Movie | Jake Speed | Syd | 1986-05-30 |
| Movie | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford | 1985-02-01 |
| Movie | Live Aid | Self | 1985-07-13 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | Narrator (voice) | 1985-12-03 |
| Movie | The Black Cauldron | The Horned King (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
| Movie | Success Is the Best Revenge | Dino Montecurva | 1984-05-26 |
| Movie | Champions | Bob Champion | 1984-04-20 |
| Movie | The Hit | Braddock | 1984-09-12 |
| 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 | Night Crossing | Peter Strelzyk | 1982-02-05 |
| Movie | Partners | Kerwin | 1982-04-30 |
| Movie | The Plague Dogs | Snitter (voice) | 1982-10-21 |
| Movie | History of the World: Part I | Jesus - The Roman Empire | 1981-06-12 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Three Dangerous Ladies | Lt. George Simmonds | 1977-06-05 |
| Series | The Hollywood Greats | Unknown | 1977-08-04 |
| Movie | Spectre | Mitri Cyon | 1977-05-21 |
| 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 Ghoul | Tom Rawlings | 1975-07-11 |
| Movie | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | 1975-12-17 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |
| Movie | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Malcolm Scrawdyke | 1974-06-11 |
| 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 | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| 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 | 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 |