Edit John Hurt. Showing all 97 items. Frequently played character who died. This happened on more than 40 times. He resided with Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot from until , when she was killed in a riding accident in Oxfordshire. They were riding together when he witnessed the accident, in which she was thrown from her horse and landed on her head on the road. He did the film History of the World: Part I because he had just gotten through doing two seriously dramatic films, The Elephant Man and Heaven's Gate , and said that he wanted to have fun and do a comedy.
He worked with two Boromirs. His father was vicar of Shirebrook, Derbyshire and Vicar of St. John's parish in Sunderland, County Durham. His mother opened a school at his father's vicarage when he was five. He spoofed his role from Alien in Mel Brooks ' parody Spaceballs He was not the first choice for the role of Gilbert Kane in Alien He was brought in on the second day of filming after Jon Finch , the original actor cast for the role, was diagnosed with a severe case of diabetes and taken to hospital.
As Winston Smith in , he portrayed a victim of a totalitarian society, with Big Brother as its head. Though not a financial success, it sparked enough interest in Tolkien's works that the BBC decided to air its own adaptation, and it was also what inspired Peter Jackson to make his live-action films.
Both subsequent adaptations featured Ian Holm , with whom Hurt appeared in Alien An early passion for acting was triggered when he saw Alec Guinness play Fagin in the film Oliver Twist Hurt's elder sister became a school teacher in Australia. His brother, the eldest of the three siblings, converted to Roman Catholicism and became a monk, Brother Anselm, first at Downside a Benedictine school in England and later at Glenstal Abbey County Limerick, Ireland , where he remains as of , although, following allegations of abuse, he is banned from interacting with students and lives retired.
He was offered the role of Dr. He was friends with the late John Entwistle , bassist and founding member of The Who. He had written a poem about him and read it out loud at his memorial October 24, He was considered for the role of Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween , which went to Donald Pleasence. Once an alcoholic, he gave up smoking and drinking after his fourth marriage To avoid throwing off the numbering of subsequent Doctors Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, etc. At age 73, he also became the oldest actor to play a version of the Doctor on television, the first CBE to play the Doctor on television, and in , he became the only actor to have played the Doctor in Doctor Who , Doctor Who or Doctor Who to have been conferred with a knighthood.
The only one to win was A Man for All Seasons He resided in Cromer, Norfolk, England. He shared a role, apart from Aragorn, with three cast members of Peter Jackson 's Middle-Earth films. In Immortals he plays the older version of Zeus, who is played as a young man by Luke Evans. Hurt's portrayal of Caligula is vastly considered an unparalleled interpretation of the role of all times, which, among others, was highly praised by Marlon Brando in his autobiography too, with whom Hurt also collaborated in the unfinished short comedy film Divine Rapture Out of all working actors in Hollywood, he holds the record for the most onscreen character deaths, 47 in total.
He pulled out of a West End version of "The Entertainer" due to an intestinal complaint. He was offered the role of Mohandas K. Gandhi in Richard Attenborough 's film Gandhi , but declined the offer. He felt that by the s it had become inappropriate for a Caucasian European to portray a person of Asian descent. The role instead became a big break for another British classical actor, Ben Kingsley , who was of genuine Indian descent on his father's side.
When he appeared as the War Doctor in the 50th anniversary special, he was not the first actor to play an alternative incarnation of the Doctor. Michael Jayston had played the Valeyard in the original series, Doctor Who , in , who was an amalgamation of the Doctor's darker sides from between his twelfth and final incarnations.
Hated the idea of being regarded as "a star. He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Alien I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location. We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God.
I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how. People like us, who turn ourselves inside out for a living, we get into an emotional tussle rather than a marriage. It's fire I'm playing with and it isn't surprising I'm not the ideal companion on a daily basis. But it takes two. I mean, Christ, I haven't forced anybody.
St Michael's was one of those very rarefied, very Anglo-Catholic establishments where they rejoiced in more religious paraphernalia and theatricality than the entire Vatican. More incense-swinging, more crucifixes, more gold tassels, more rose petals, more holy mothers, more God knows what. Three times a day they played the Angelus.
When you heard it, you had to stop whatever you were doing, do the Hail Marys in your head, and then return to what you were doing. Like it would come in the middle of a Latin class. I'm just conjugating the love verb, amo, amas, amat, and doingggg! Because, if you didn't, Whack! Education by fear. And the really funny thing was they wouldn't tolerate bullying between peers.
Prefects could bash you with a slipper, but you weren't allowed to give each other a rough time. Like who do you think you are? You haven't yet earned the privilege of being violent. My parents' lot had literally crawled away from the second world war, taking with them two vital commodities by way of a survival mechanism: respectability and security.
It was odd, coming from a Christian household, but the big thing was about not being what they called "common". I got all that, "Don't play with him, he's common". I had a friend called Grenville Barker who'd come round sometimes and play football on the lawn, but not very often. And I wasn't allowed to go to his home very often because they were working class. He was what my mother called a bad influence. Everything had to do with influence. My mother was desperate I should be properly influenced, have a proper, received accent, be sent away to school at eight.
So all you can do is go into yourself, immerse yourself in your own life. I couldn't possibly do that. It's so complicated when you're dealing with memory because of the perspective and how it keeps changing. You have to learn how you see things. It's about This time in the morning. Never mind, come to me in a moment, let's have more coffee There is no such thing as all good people and all bad people. We're all capable. It exists within us. Show all 9 episodes. Simmonds segment "The Island".
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The Doctor uncredited. The War Doctor uncredited. Brooke Matthews. Ollivander uncredited. The Story of Public Information Films Quentin Crisp uncredited. TV Movie documentary. Few British actors of recent years have been held in as much affection as Sir John Hurt, who has died aged There was something about his innocence, open-heartedness and his beautiful speaking voice that made him instantly attractive.
One critic said he could pack a whole emotional universe into the twitch of an eyebrow, a sardonic slackening of the mouth. Hurt said some people had advised him that playing Crisp would end his career. Instead, it made everything possible.
He infused a hideous outer appearance — there were 27 moving pieces in his face mask; he spent nine hours a day in make-up — with a deeply moving, humane quality. Hurt was an actor freed of all convention in his choice of roles, and he lived his life accordingly.
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