John Hurt
Known for: Acting
Born: January 22, 1940
Died: January 25, 2017
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 performan…
Known for
Frankenstein Unbound
1990
The Plague Dogs
1982
Watership Down
1978
Shooting Dogs
2006
The Alien Saga
2002
Scandal
1989
Aria
1987
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
The Commissioner
1998
An Englishman in New York
2009
The Naked Civil Servant
1975
Love and Death on Long Island
1998
Hiroshima
2005
All the Little Animals
1999
Shaolin: Wheel of Life
2001
The Hit
1984
Lecture 21
2008
The Hunting of the Snark
1987
Lou
2010
Krapp's Last Tape
2000
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
2001
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
Sailcloth
2011
Night Crossing
1982
The Confession
2011
Windprints
1990
Vincent
1987
Sinful Davey
1969
The Climb
1998
East of Elephant Rock
1977
Champions
1984
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
2013
New Blood
1999
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
2012
Dark at Noon
1992
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
On Jupiter
1995
Poison Candy
1989
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
2006
Red Fox
1991
Shadowing the Third Man
2004
After Darkness
1985
Deadline
1988
Whistle and I'll Come to You
2010
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
2015
Night Train
1998
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2003
The Alchemist's Letter
2015
Monolith
1987
Iceberg
1987
Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
Saigon Baby
1995
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
1980
Love at First Sight
2010
Frightmares
1987
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
2011
Rocinante
1986
Journey to Knock
1991
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
2016
The Final Reel
2016
Tender Loving Care
1996
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
1990
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
That Good Night
2017
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
1995
Lapse of Memory
1991
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
2011
Romeo.Juliet
1990
Break
2015
The Playboy of the Western World
1974
Bait
2002
Interview with John Hurt
2007
Thames Film
1986
Ayamé
2018
The Peddler
1976
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
1994
Back to Utopia
2016
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
2002
Centenary: The BP Story
2009
Green Julia
1971
The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
1988
The Storyteller: Fearnot
1988
The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988
The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
1988
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988
The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
1988
The Storyteller: The True Bride
1988
The Elephant Man
1980
You're Dead...
1999
The Field
1990
The Osterman Weekend
1983
10 Rillington Place
1971
The Oxford Murders
2008
44 Inch Chest
2009
King Lear
1983
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
2010
The Ghoul
1975
Partners
1982
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
Success Is the Best Revenge
1984
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
Sunset People
1984
Ballybrando
2009
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
King Ralph
1991
Heaven's Gate
1980
From the Hip
1987
Rob Roy
1995
Owning Mahowny
2003
Brighton Rock
2010
Wild Bill
1995
Monolith
1993
Crime and Punishment
2002
Tabloid
2001
Hercules
2014
This Is My Street
1964
In Search of Gregory
1969
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
Spectre
1977
A.K.A Nadia
2015
Damascus Cover
2017
Remembrance
2009
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
Dogville
2003
I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991
The Snipist
2012
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
The Shout
1978
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
The Lord of the Rings
1978
Hellboy
2004
Contact
1997
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
2007
The Skeleton Key
2005
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
Miranda
2002
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
Snowpiercer
2013
The Disappearance
1977
Before Winter Comes
1969
Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013
Jake Speed
1986
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
2015
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
My Name Is Lenny
2017
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
The Bengali Night
1988
Whaledreamers
2006
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
V for Vendetta
2006
Outlander
2008
The Gruffalo
2009
Recount
2008
White Mischief
1987
The Gruffalo's Child
2011
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
The Pied Piper
1972
Muse of Fire
2013
On Borrowed Time
2011
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
2014
Alien
1979
Jackie
2016
The Journey
2017
The Black Cauldron
1985
More Than Honey
2012
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
2006
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
Immortals
2011
Lost Souls
2000
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
ChickLit
2016
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
2013
Dead Man
1995
Brute
1997
Valiant
2005
Melancholia
2011
The Proposition
2005
Second Best
1994
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
Short Order
2005
Boxes
2007
The Wild and the Willing
1962
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
In Love with Alma Cogan
2011
Stream Line
1976
Henry Fonda for President
2025
A Man for All Seasons
1966
Pride
2004
Midnight Express
1978
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008
The Limits of Control
2009
The Tigger Movie
2000
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009
Resident Alien
1990
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990
Spaceballs
1987
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
2004
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Manderlay
2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Thumbelina
1994
New York, I Love You
2008
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Once Upon a Halloween
2005
The World of Jim Henson
1994
Sightseers
2012
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
History of the World: Part I
1981
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
Live Aid
1985
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
The Sweeney
1975
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Gideon's Way
1965
HypaSpace
2002
I, Claudius
1976
The Storyteller
1988
Play for Today
1970
The Alan Clark Diaries
2004
Natural World
1983
The Hollywood Greats
1977
Crime and Punishment
1979
GMTV
1993
Labyrinth
2012
Human Planet
2011
The Confession
2011
Planet Dinosaur
2011
Edge of the Universe
2002
Performance
1991
NOVA
1974
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Last Panthers
2015
Merlin
2008
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Doctor Who
2005
Great Performances
1971
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Hollow Crown
2012
Picture Windows
1995
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Parkinson
1998
Watership Down
1999
Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction
2005
Drama 61-67
1961
Wessex Tales
1973
Playhouse Presents
2012
ITV Playhouse
1967
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Sunday Drama
1977
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
The Jim Henson Hour
1989
ScreenPlay
1986
Screen Two
1985
Thursday Theatre
1964
NET Playhouse
1966
Shades of Greene
1975
Ten from the Twenties
1975
Film '72
1971
First Night
1963