Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (22 January 1940 â€" 25 January 2017) was an
English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years.Hurt 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) â€" 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), yielded a scene where an alien creature
burst out of his chest. It has been 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 John 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 (2001â€"11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008),
supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key (2005), western The Proposition
(2005), political thriller V for Vendetta (2005), sci-fi adventure
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (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 in 2013.
English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years.Hurt 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) â€" 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), yielded a scene where an alien creature
burst out of his chest. It has been 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 John 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 (2001â€"11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008),
supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key (2005), western The Proposition
(2005), political thriller V for Vendetta (2005), sci-fi adventure
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (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 in 2013.
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