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 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), notably included a scene where an alien creature burst out of his chest, 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 Joseph 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 (2001–11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key (2005), western The Proposition (2005), political thriller V for Vendetta (2005), action adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), sci-fi action Outlander (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's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". He possessed what was described as the "most distinctive voice in Britain", likened by The Observer to "nicotine sieved through dirty, moonlit gravel". His voice acting career encompassed films such as Watership Down (1978), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982), The Black Cauldron (1985), Dogville (2003) and Planet Dinosaur (2011) as well as BBC TV series Merlin (2008–2012). In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema". He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.
228 movies · 49 shows
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025·5.0
Henry Fonda for President
2025·7.0
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024·7.2
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021·4.5
Ayamé
2018·0.0
Damascus Cover
2017·5.5
That Good Night
2017·6.9
My Name Is Lenny
2017·5.8
The Journey
2017·6.3
Jackie
2016·6.5
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
2016·0.0
Back to Utopia
2016·0.0
The Final Reel
2016·6.0
ChickLit
2016·5.4
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015·8.0
Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
2015·6.2
A.K.A Nadia
2015·7.7
Break
2015·7.5
The Alchemist's Letter
2015·6.8
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
2015·0.0
Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
2014·10.0
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014·4.8
Hercules
2014·5.8
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013·7.2
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013·9.0
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013·10.0
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013·8.2
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013·7.8
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013·8.0
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013·8.3
Muse of Fire
2013·6.5
Snowpiercer
2013·6.9
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013·5.7
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
2013·0.0
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
2013·5.5
Sightseers
2012·6.3
Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
2012·8.1
More Than Honey
2012·7.2
The Snipist
2012·9.0
The Gruffalo's Child
2011·6.9
Immortals
2011·6.1
On Borrowed Time
2011·5.3
In Love with Alma Cogan
2011·7.0
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011·6.6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011·8.1
23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
2011·5.5
The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
2011·0.0
Melancholia
2011·7.2
The Confession
2011·6.6
Sailcloth
2011·9.0
Whistle and I'll Come to You
2010·5.7
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
2010·5.8
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
Love at First Sight
2010·7.7
Brighton Rock
2010·5.7
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010·0.0
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010·6.1
Lou
2010·6.8
The Gruffalo
2009·7.4
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009·0.0
Ballybrando
2009·10.0
44 Inch Chest
2009·5.4
Remembrance
2009·0.0
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009·7.2
The Limits of Control
2009·6.0
An Englishman in New York
2009·6.4
Centenary: The BP Story
2009·0.0
Lecture 21
2008·6.1
New York, I Love You
2008·6.0
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008·6.8
Recount
2008·6.8
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008·6.0
Outlander
2008·6.5
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008·0.0
The Oxford Murders
2008·6.0
Boxes
2007·5.3
Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
2007·6.3
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007·0.0
Interview with John Hurt
2007·9.0
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006·7.4
Whaledreamers
2006·5.5
The Plot Against Harold Wilson
2006·0.0
V for Vendetta: Unmasked
2006·8.0
Shooting Dogs
2006·7.5
V for Vendetta
2006·7.9
The Proposition
2005·7.0
Once Upon a Halloween
2005·6.2
Hiroshima
2005·7.2
The Skeleton Key
2005·6.6
Manderlay
2005·6.9
Valiant
2005·5.7
Short Order
2005·5.1
Shadowing the Third Man
2004·6.6
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
2004·6.9
Pride
2004·6.1
Hellboy
2004·6.7
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004·7.0
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003·8.2
Dogville
2003·7.8
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2003·8.0
Owning Mahowny
2003·6.8
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003·10.0
The Alien Saga
2002·6.3
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
2002·0.0
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002·7.0
Crime and Punishment
2002·5.2
Bait
2002·8.0
Miranda
2002·5.5
Shaolin: Wheel of Life
2001·8.0
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001·6.5
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001·7.9
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001·6.0
The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
2001·7.3
Tabloid
2001·5.0
Lost Souls
2000·5.1
Krapp's Last Tape
2000·7.4
The Tigger Movie
2000·6.7
New Blood
1999·5.5
You're Dead...
1999·6.8
If... Dog... Rabbit
1999·4.5
All the Little Animals
1999·6.0
Love and Death on Long Island
1998·6.3
The Climb
1998·7.1
The Commissioner
1998·6.0
Night Train
1998·7.0
Brute
1997·5.7
Contact
1997·7.4
Tender Loving Care
1996·3.4
Dead Man
1995·7.3
Saigon Baby
1995·9.0
Wild Bill
1995·5.7
On Jupiter
1995·0.0
Rob Roy
1995·6.7
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
1995·4.0
The World of Jim Henson
1994·7.4
Second Best
1994·6.8
Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
1994·8.0
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994·4.4
Great Moments in Aviation
1994·4.9
Thumbelina
1994·6.5
Monolith
1993·4.6
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992·6.0
Dark at Noon
1992·6.8
Red Fox
1991·6.0
I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991·7.3
Journey to Knock
1991·10.0
Lapse of Memory
1991·7.3
King Ralph
1991·5.4
Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
1990·10.0
Frankenstein Unbound
1990·5.8
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990·7.5
The Field
1990·7.0
Resident Alien
1990·5.3
Windprints
1990·6.5
Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990·8.5
Romeo.Juliet
1990·7.5
Poison Candy
1989·5.6
Scandal
1989·6.0
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989·0.0
The Bengali Night
1988·6.6
A Dinner of Herbs
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: The True Bride
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: Fearnot
1988·0.0
The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
1988·0.0
Deadline
1988·6.0
White Mischief
1987·6.1
Vincent
1987·6.5
Spaceballs
1987·6.9
Aria
1987·5.3
The Hunting of the Snark
1987·8.0
From the Hip
1987·5.9
Monolith
1987·0.0
Iceberg
1987·0.0
Frightmares
1987·0.0
Rocinante
1986·9.0
Thames Film
1986·0.0
Jake Speed
1986·4.6
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985·3.5
The Black Cauldron
1985·6.4
Live Aid
1985·7.9
After Darkness
1985·4.6
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984·6.8
The Hit
1984·6.5
Success Is the Best Revenge
1984·6.5
Champions
1984·6.6
Sunset People
1984·8.0
The Osterman Weekend
1983·5.6
King Lear
1983·6.7
The Plague Dogs
1982·7.8
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982·0.0
Partners
1982·5.5
Night Crossing
1982·6.2
History of the World: Part I
1981·6.8
Heaven's Gate
1980·6.7
The Elephant Man
1980·8.0
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
1980·9.0
Alien
1979·8.2
The Lord of the Rings
1978·6.6
Watership Down
1978·7.2
Midnight Express
1978·7.4
The Shout
1978·6.0
The Disappearance
1977·5.6
East of Elephant Rock
1977·4.5
Three Dangerous Ladies
1977·6.0
Spectre
1977·6.0
The Island
1976·0.0
Stream Line
1976·7.0
The Peddler
1976·0.0
The Naked Civil Servant
1975·6.7
The Ghoul
1975·5.0
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974·6.4
The Playboy of the Western World
1974·7.0
The Pied Piper
1972·6.0
Green Julia
1971·0.0
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971·5.0
10 Rillington Place
1971·7.3
In Search of Gregory
1969·5.1
Sinful Davey
1969·5.3
Before Winter Comes
1969·6.0
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967·5.8
A Man for All Seasons
1966·7.3
This Is My Street
1964·5.9
The Wild and the Willing
1962·6.0