John Hurt
Gender: Male
Born: 22nd January 1940 (currently 72 years old)
Nationality: England
TV programs: I, Claudius, The Alan Clark Diaries, Merlin, The Jim Henson Hour, HypaSpace, Crime and Punishment (UK), Masters of Science Fiction, Watership Down, The Storyteller, The Confession, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Peppa Pig
Movies: 1984, A Man for All Seasons, Alien, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Heaven's Gate, Hellboy, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, King Ralph, Midnight Express, Owning Mahowny, Partners, Rob Roy, Scandal, The Black Cauldron, The Elephant Man, The Lord of the Rings, The Skeleton Key, V for Vendetta, Valiant, Contact, Night Crossing, The Climb, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Outlander, All the Little Animals, The Field, Lost Souls, Second Best, Miranda, Franklyn, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Osterman Weekend, White Mischief, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Shooting Dogs, The Oxford Murders, Romeo-Juliet, Jake Speed, Love and Death on Long Island, Watership Down, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, The Ghoul, Sinful Davey, New York, I Love You, Frankenstein Unbound, Cry of the Penguins, One Last Score, New Blood, Crime & Punishment: The Complete Miniseries, Tender Loving Care, 44 Inch Chest, Recount, From the Hip, An Englishman in New York, The Hit, A Monkey's Tale, The Limits of Control, Die Hard, Champions, Great Moments in Aviation, The Black Cauldron, The Proposition, Boxes, 10 Rillington Place, Dark at Noon, I Dreamt I Woke Up, Two Nudes Bathing, Spaceballs, The Shout, The Gruffalo, Thumbelina, Wild Bill, The Absinthe Drinkers, The Plague Dogs, Dead Man, The Naked Civil Servant, Short Order, The Bengali Night, Little Malcolm, Aria, Who Bombed Birmingham?, Rocketbook: 1984, Manderlay, Bait, Escape to Watership Down, Brighton Rock, The Pied Piper, King Lear, Indestructible, Immortals, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Lou, Crime and Punishment, Lecture 21, Melancholia, Night Train, Short Order
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor and former voice actor. Among other honours, he has received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award, and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition.
Hurt is known for his leading roles as Joseph Merrick (billed 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 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 first, penultimate, and last Harry Potter films, the Hellboy film series, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Hurt is one of England's best-known, most prolific and sought-after actors, and has
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