John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017) was 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.
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- Born:
- Jan 22, 1940 In Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 214
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Wild and the Willing 1962-10-16
- Latest Project:
- Movie Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War 2025-05-31
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2025-05-31 |
| Movie | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (War) (archive footage) | 2024-12-24 |
| Movie | Lynch/Oz | John Merrick (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2023-05-15 |
| Movie | Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 |
| 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 | ChickLit | Francis Bonar | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets | Siegfried Sassoon | 2016-11-13 |
| Movie | Jackie | The Priest | 2016-12-02 |
| Movie | The Alchemist's Letter | The Alchemist (voice) | 2015-04-21 |
| Movie | A.K.A Nadia | 347 | 2015-07-01 |
| Series | The Last Panthers | Tom | 2015-11-12 |
| Movie | Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie | Sailor John (voice) | 2015-07-17 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited) | 2015-12-25 |
| Movie | Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 | Narrator | 2014-08-31 |
| Movie | Hercules | Cotys | 2014-07-23 |
| Movie | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
| Movie | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Kingsley Bedford | 2013-07-25 |
| Movie | Snowpiercer | Gilliam | 2013-08-01 |
| Movie | Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre | The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self | 2013-06-06 |
| Movie | Charlie Countryman | Narrator (voice) | 2013-02-09 |
| Movie | Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
| Movie | Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict | Narrator (voice) | 2013-05-24 |
| Movie | Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips | Self / Stephen Ward | 2013-09-28 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Only Lovers Left Alive | Christopher Marlowe | 2013-12-12 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | The War Doctor (archive voice) | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | The War Doctor | 2013-11-14 |
| Movie | The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro | The War Doctor | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Snipist | The Ministry | 2012-05-24 |
| Movie | Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | Narrator (voice) | 2012-08-19 |
| Series | Labyrinth | Audric Baillard | 2012-11-24 |
| Movie | Sightseers | Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2012-11-30 |
| Movie | The Confession | Priest | 2011-05-02 |
| Movie | Melancholia | Dexter | 2011-05-26 |
| Series | The Confession | Priest | 2011-03-28 |
| Series | Human Planet | Narrator (voice) | 2011-01-13 |
| Movie | Sailcloth | Man | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa | Narrator | 2011-07-05 |
| Movie | In Love with Alma Cogan | MC | 2011-10-04 |
| Movie | Immortals | Old Zeus | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | The Gruffalo's Child | The Owl (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes | Professor Orit | 2011-07-09 |
| Movie | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Control | 2011-09-16 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Ollivander | 2011-07-12 |
| Series | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator | 2011-09-14 |
| Movie | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures | Grandpa Sammy (voice) | 2010-08-04 |
| Movie | Brighton Rock | Phil Corkery | 2010-09-13 |
| 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 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Ollivander | 2010-11-17 |
| Movie | An Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp | 2009-02-07 |
| 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 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Professor Harold Oxley | 2008-05-21 |
| Movie | Outlander | Rothgar | 2008-04-24 |
| Movie | The Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom | 2008-01-18 |
| Movie | Recount | Warren Christopher | 2008-05-25 |
| Movie | New York, I Love You | Bellhop | 2008-09-06 |
| Movie | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Trevor Bruttenholm | 2008-07-11 |
| Series | Merlin | Kilgharrah (voice) | 2008-09-20 |
| Movie | Lecture 21 | Mondrian Kilroy | 2008-10-17 |
| 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 | Fanny's father | 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 | Adam Sutler | 2006-02-23 |
| Movie | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Narrator (voice) | 2006-09-13 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Valiant | Felix (voice) | 2005-03-25 |
| Movie | Short Order | 2005-01-01 | |
| Series | Doctor Who | The War Doctor | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Manderlay | Narrator (voice) | 2005-06-03 |
| Movie | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb | 2005-10-06 |
| Movie | Hiroshima | Narrator (voice) | 2005-08-06 |
| Movie | The Skeleton Key | Ben Devereaux | 2005-07-29 |
| Movie | Hellboy | Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | 2004-04-02 |
| Movie | Pride | Harry (voice) | 2004-06-21 |
| Series | The Alan Clark Diaries | Alan Clark | 2004-01-15 |
| Movie | Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation | Self | 2004-07-27 |
| 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 | Dogville | Narrator (voice) | 2003-05-21 |
| Movie | The Beast Within: Making Alien | Self | 2003-12-02 |
| Movie | Miranda | Christian | 2002-01-18 |
| Series | HypaSpace | Self | 2002-05-13 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry, chief investigator | 2002-06-01 |
| 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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis | 2001-04-18 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Mr. Ollivander | 2001-11-16 |
| 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 |
| Series | Watership Down | General Woundwort | 1999-09-28 |
| Movie | If... Dog... Rabbit | Sean Cooper | 1999-09-29 |
| Movie | All the Little Animals | Mr. Summers | 1999-07-09 |
| Movie | You're Dead... | Maitland | 1999-10-01 |
| Movie | New Blood | Alan White | 1999-11-15 |
| Movie | The Commissioner | James morton | 1998-02-22 |
| Movie | Night Train | Michael Poole | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Climb | Chuck Langer | 1998-03-11 |
| Movie | Love and Death on Long Island | Giles De'Ath | 1998-07-03 |
| Movie | Contact | S. R. Hadden | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Bandyta | Babits | 1997-11-07 |
| Movie | Tender Loving Care | Dr. Turner | 1996-05-16 |
| Movie | Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing | Marquis de Prey | 1995-03-24 |
| Movie | Dead Man | John Scholfield | 1995-12-23 |
| Movie | On Jupiter | Narrator (voice) | 1995-08-03 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | John Graham | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Wild Bill | Charley Prince | 1995-12-01 |
| Movie | Saigon Baby | Jack Lee | 1995-12-16 |
| Movie | Great Moments in Aviation | Rex Goodyear | 1994-05-01 |
| Movie | Thumbelina | Mr. Mole (voice) | 1994-03-30 |
| 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 | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | Second Best | Uncle Turpin | 1994-09-30 |
| Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Monolith | Villano | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Father | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | Dark at Noon | Anthony / Le Marquis | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves | 1991-02-15 |
| Movie | Lapse of Memory | Conrad Farmer | 1991-06-02 |
| Movie | Journey to Knock | Alfred | 1991-09-17 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Archie Carpenter | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | I Dreamt I Woke Up | Boorman's Alter Ego | 1991-11-16 |
| Movie | Windprints | Charles Rutherford | 1990-06-29 |
| Movie | Who Bombed Birmingham? | Chris Mullin | 1990-04-22 |
| Movie | The Field | Bird' O'Donnell | 1990-09-21 |
| Movie | Resident Alien | Self - Actor | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch | Self | 1990-10-19 |
| 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 | Poison Candy | 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 | The Hunting of the Snark | The Narrator (voice) | 1987-04-01 |
| Movie | Frightmares | 1987-01-01 | |
| Movie | Aria | The Actor | 1987-05-27 |
| Movie | From the Hip | Douglas Benoit | 1987-02-06 |
| Movie | White Mischief | Gilbert Colville | 1987-11-10 |
| Movie | Vincent | (voice) | 1987-10-08 |
| Movie | Spaceballs | John Hurt | 1987-06-24 |
| Movie | Jake Speed | Syd | 1986-05-30 |
| Movie | Rocinante | Bill | 1986-11-01 |
| Movie | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford | 1985-02-01 |
| Movie | Live Aid | Self | 1985-07-13 |
| Movie | The Black Cauldron | The Horned King (voice) | 1985-07-24 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima | Narrator (voice) | 1985-12-03 |
| Movie | Success Is the Best Revenge | Dino Montecurva | 1984-05-26 |
| Movie | Champions | Bob Champion | 1984-04-20 |
| Movie | The Hit | Braddock | 1984-09-07 |
| 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 | Partners | Kerwin | 1982-04-30 |
| Movie | Night Crossing | Peter Strelzyk | 1982-02-05 |
| Movie | The Plague Dogs | Snitter (voice) | 1982-10-01 |
| Movie | History of the World: Part I | Jesus - The Roman Empire | 1981-06-12 |
| Movie | An Evening with Quentin Crisp | Host | 1980-01-01 |
| Movie | The Elephant Man | John Merrick | 1980-10-09 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Billy Irvine | 1980-11-19 |
| Series | Crime and Punishment | Raskolnikov | 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 | East of Elephant Rock | Nash | 1977-10-22 |
| Movie | The Disappearance | Atkinson | 1977-11-30 |
| Movie | The Peddler | Alec Cassell | 1976-03-23 |
| Movie | Stream Line | Chandler | 1976-05-06 |
| Series | I, Claudius | Caligula | 1976-09-20 |
| Series | The Sweeney | Unknown | 1975-01-02 |
| Movie | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | 1975-12-17 |
| Movie | The Ghoul | Tom Rawlings | 1975-07-11 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |
| Movie | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Malcolm Scrawdyke | 1974-06-11 |
| Series | Wessex Tales | Unknown | 1973-11-07 |
| Movie | The Pied Piper | Franz | 1972-12-27 |
| Movie | 10 Rillington Place | Timothy Evans | 1971-02-10 |
| Series | A Ghost Story for Christmas | James Parkin | 1971-12-24 |
| Movie | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Richard Forbush | 1971-07-29 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Movie | Before Winter Comes | Lieutenant Pilkington | 1969-01-17 |
| Movie | In Search of Gregory | Daniel | 1969-11-01 |
| Movie | Sinful Davey | Davey Haggart | 1969-02-10 |
| Movie | The Sailor from Gibraltar | John | 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 |