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John Hurt CBE
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Hurt at the Festival de Dinard, 2009
Born John Vincent Hurt
(1940-01-22) 22 January 1940 (age 73)
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Occupation Actor
Years active 1961–present
Spouse(s) Annette Robertson (m. 1962–d. 1964)
Donna Peacock (m. 1984–d. 1990)
Joan Dalton (m. 1990–d. 1996)
Ann Rees Meyers (m. 2005)

John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor. Among other honours, he has received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award, and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition.[1]

Hurt is known for his leading roles as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York, and Caligula in I, Claudius. Recognisable for his distinctive rich voice,[2] he has also enjoyed a successful voice acting career, starring in films such as Watership Down, the animated The Lord of the Rings and Dogville, as well as BBC television series Merlin. He is due to portray an unknown incarnation of the Doctor in the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who, after being introduced at the end of the series 7 finale, "The Name of the Doctor".[3][4]

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 films such as: Alien, Midnight Express, Rob Roy, V for Vendetta, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Harry Potter film series, the Hellboy films, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Hurt is one of Britain's best-known, most prolific and sought-after actors, and has had a versatile film career spanning six decades.[5] He is also known for his many Shakespearean roles.[6] His character's final scene in Alien is consistently named as one of the most memorable in cinematic history.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

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Early life[edit]

John Hurt was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, when his father was vicar of Shirebrook.[14] He is the son of Phyllis (née Massey), an amateur actress and engineer, and Arnould Herbert Hurt, a mathematician who became an Anglican clergyman.[6] Hurt has an older brother, Br. Anselm (born Michael), a Roman Catholic convert who became a monk and writer at Glenstal Abbey, to whose books his younger brother John has contributed.[15] Hurt also has an adopted sister, Monica.

Hurt's father was a vicar at St John's Church in Sunderland. In 1937, he moved his family to Derbyshire, where he became Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity Church. When Hurt was five, his father became the vicar of St Stephen's Church in Woodville, Derbyshire and remained there until 1952. In 1945, Hurt's father founded 1st Woodville (St Stephen's) Scout Group which is still going strong today.[citation needed]

Hurt had a strict upbringing: the family lived opposite a cinema, but he was not allowed to see films there. He was also not permitted to mix with local children because in his parents' view they were "too common."[16] Hurt's mother died in 1975, and his father died in 1999 at the age of 95.

Education[edit]

At the age of eight, Hurt was sent to the Anglican St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he eventually developed his passion for acting. He decided he wanted to become an actor, and his first role was that of a girl in a school production of The Bluebird (L'Oiseau Bleu) by Maurice Maeterlinck. While he was a pupil at the school, he was abused by Donald Cormack (now deceased), then Senior Master of the school and later Head Teacher (until his retirement in 1981).[17] Hurt described how Cormack would remove his two false front teeth and put his tongue in the boys' mouths, and how he would rub their faces with his stubble. Hurt said that the experience affected him hugely.[18]

Hurt's father moved to St Aidan's Church in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Hurt (then aged 12) became a boarder at Christ's Hospital School (then a grammar school) in Lincoln, because he had failed the entrance exam for admission to his brother's school. Hurt often accompanied his mother to Cleethorpes Repertory Theatre, but his parents disliked his acting ambitions and encouraged him to become an art teacher instead. His headmaster, Mr. Franklin, laughed when Hurt told him he wanted to be an actor, telling him that he "wouldn't stand a chance in the profession".[16] Aged 17, Hurt enrolled in Grimsby Art School (now the East Coast School of Art & Design), where he studied art. In 1959, Hurt won a scholarship allowing him to study for an Art Teacher's Diploma (ATD) at Central St. Martin's College in Holborn. Despite the scholarship, paying for his studies was financially difficult, so he persuaded some of his friends to pose nude and sold the portraits. In 1960, he won a scholarship to RADA, where he trained for two years. He was then cast in small roles on TV.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

Hurt's first film was The Wild and the Willing (1962), but his first major role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons (1966). His portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the 1975 TV play The Naked Civil Servant gave prominence and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The following year, Hurt played the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial, I, Claudius. In 1978, he appeared in Midnight Express, for which he won a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the latter of which he lost to Christopher Walken for his performance in The Deer Hunter). Hurt played Hazel, the heroic rabbit leader of his warren in the film adaptation of Watership Down and later played the major villain, General Woundwort, in the animated television series version.

His roles at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s included Kane, the memorable first victim of the title creature in the film Alien (a role which he reprised as a parody in Spaceballs); would-be art school radical Scrawdyke in Little Malcolm; and "John" Merrick in the Joseph Merrick biography The Elephant Man, for which he won a BAFTA and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1978, he lent his voice to Ralph Bakshi's animated film adaptation of Lord of the Rings, playing the role of Aragorn. He also had a starring role in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but moderately successful final film, The Osterman Weekend (1983). Also in 1983 he starred as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King in King Lear. Hurt also appeared as Raskolnikov in the 1979 BBC TV mini-series adaptation of Crime and Punishment.[19]

Cynthia Nixon, Hurt and Swoosie Kurtz in 2009.
Hurt at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Hurt played Winston Smith in the 1984 adaptation of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 1985, he starred in Disney's The Black Cauldron, voicing the film's main antagonist, the Horned King. In 1986, Hurt provided the voiceover for AIDS: Iceberg / Tombstone,[20] a public information film warning of the dangers of AIDS. In 1988 he played the title role, the on-screen narrator, in Jim Henson's The StoryTeller TV series. He had a memorable supporting role as "Bird" O'Donnell in Jim Sheridan's 1990 film The Field, which garnered him another BAFTA nomination. In 2001, he played Mr. Ollivander, the wand-maker, in the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He returned for the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though his scenes in that film were cut. He also returned for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. In 1999, Hurt provided narration on the British musical group Art of Noise's concept album The Seduction of Claude Debussy. During this time, he narrated a four-part series on the Universe which was released on DVD in 1999. In the 2006 film V for Vendetta he played the role of Adam Sutler, leader of the Norsefire fascist dictatorship. In May 2008, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Harold Oxley.[21] He is also the voice of The Great Dragon Kilgharrah, who aids the young warlock Merlin as he protects the future king Arthur, in the BBC television series Merlin.[22]

In 2008, 33 years after The Naked Civil Servant, Hurt reprised the role of Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York. This film depicts Crisp's later years in New York.[23]

In June 2009, Hurt played the on-screen Big Brother for Paper Zoo Theatre Company's production of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The theatre production premiered at the National Media Museum, in Bradford and will be touring during early 2010. Hurt said, "I think Paper Zoo thought it would be quite ironic to have the person who played Winston having risen in the party. From the Chestnut Tree Cafe, he's managed to get his wits together again, now understanding that 2 and 2 make 5, and becomes Big Brother. So it tickled my fancy, and of course I looked up Paper Zoo, and they seem to me to be the sort of company that’s essential in the country as we know it, and doing a lot of really good stuff."[24]

Hurt is due to appear alongside Ben Kingsley in a film entitled Broken Dream, to be directed by Neil Jordan.[25] At the 65th British Academy Film Awards Hurt won the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.

Hurt appeared as an unknown incarnation of the Doctor in the 2013 Doctor Who episode "The Name of the Doctor", and will reprise the role in the show's 50th anniversary special later in the year.[3][4]

Personal life[edit]

In 1962, Hurt's father left his parish in Cleethorpes to become headmaster of St Michael's College in the Central American country of British Honduras. In that same year, John Hurt first performed on the London stage and married actress Annette Robertson. The marriage ended in 1964. In 1967 he began his longest relationship, with French model Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot, sister of fashion photographer Jean-Claude Volpeliere-Pierrot. The couple had planned to get married after fifteen years, when events took a tragic turn on 26 January 1983: Hurt and Volpeliere-Pierrot went horse riding early in the morning near their house in Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Volpeliere-Pierrot was thrown off her horse and suffered a tragic fall. She went into a coma and died later that day.[26]

Hurt married his old friend the Texan actress Donna Peacock at a local Register Office on 6 September 1984. The couple moved to Kenya. They divorced in early January 1990.

At the 2009 premiere of An Englishman in New York.

On 24 January 1990, Hurt married American production assistant Joan Dalton,[27] whom he had met while filming Scandal. With her he had two sons: Sasha John Vincent Hurt (born 6 February 1990) and Nick Hurt (born 5 February 1993), who are currently residing in County Waterford, Ireland. Nick has gone to acting school in England and wishes to follow in his father's footsteps.[citation needed] This marriage ended in 1996 and was followed with a seven-year relationship with Dublin-born presenter and writer Sarah Owens. The couple moved to County Wicklow, where they settled close to their friends, director John Boorman, and Claddagh Records founder and Guinness heir The Hon Garech de Brún. In July 2002 the couple separated. In March 2005, Hurt married his fourth wife, advertising film producer Anwen Rees Meyers. He now lives near Cromer in Norfolk.[28]

In 2004, Hurt was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[29]

In January 2002, Hurt received an honorary degree from the University of Derby and in January 2006 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Hull.

In 2007, Hurt took part in the BBC genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated part of his family history. Prior to participating in the programme, Hurt had harboured a love of Ireland and was enamoured of a 'deeply beguiling' family legend that suggested his great-grandmother had been the illegitimate daughter of Irish nobleman the Marquess of Sligo. The genealogical evidence uncovered seemed to contradict the family legend, rendering the 'suggestion' doubtful. Coincidentally, the search revealed that his great-grandmother had previously lived in Grimsby at a location within a mile of the art college at which Hurt had once enrolled.[30]

Since 2006, John Hurt has been a patron of Project Harar, a UK-based charity working in Ethiopia for children with facial disfigurements.[31]

Since 2009, he has been patron of QUAD, an arts centre in Derby. On 25 September 2009, Hurt visited QUAD and took part in a Q&A directly preceding a screening of the film The Night Train as part of the festivities, celebrating the first birthday at QUAD (opened on 26 September 2008). The day after, 26 September, John Hurt was guest of honour at Derby County vs Bristol City and went on the pitch at Pride Park at half time to oversee a prize draw.[citation needed]

In 2012 he was appointed the first Provost of Norwich University College of the Arts.[32][33]

On 23 January 2013, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts by the University of Lincoln, England at Lincoln Cathedral.[34] Hurt has been announced as patron of Norwich Cinema City in March 2013. [35]

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

List of film performances
Year Title Role Notes
1962 Wild and the Willing, TheThe Wild and the Willing Phil
1964 This Is My Street Charlie
1966 Man for All Seasons, AA Man for All Seasons Richard Rich
1967 Sailor from Gibraltar, TheThe Sailor from Gibraltar John
1969 In Search of Gregory Daniel
1969 Sinful Davey Davey Haggart
1969 Before Winter Comes Lieutenant Pilkington
1971 Mr. Forbush and the Penguins Richard Forbush
1971 10 Rillington Place Timothy John Evans Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1972 Pied Piper, TheThe Pied Piper Franz
1974 Little Malcolm Malcolm Scrawdyke
1975 Ghoul, TheThe Ghoul Tom Rawlings
1975 Linea del fiume, LaLa Linea del fiume Chandler
1977 East of Elephant Rock Nash
1977 Three Dangerous Ladies Lt. Simmonds
1977 Disappearance, TheThe Disappearance Atkinson
1978 Watership Down Hazel Voice role
1978 Shout, TheThe Shout Anthony Fielding
1978 Midnight Express Max Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1978 Lord of the Rings, TheThe Lord of the Rings Aragorn Voice role
1979 Alien Kane DVDX Award for Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) (2003 re-issue in Alien Quadrilogy, shared with Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, Terry Rawlings, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright and Harry Dean Stanton)
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1980 Elephant Man, TheThe Elephant Man John Merrick BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1980 Heaven's Gate Billy Irvine
1981 Night Crossing Peter Strelzyk
1981 History of the World, Part I Jesus Christ
1982 Partners Kerwin
1982 Plague Dogs, TheThe Plague Dogs Snitter Voice
1983 Osterman Weekend, TheThe Osterman Weekend Lawrence Fassett
1984 Champions Bob Champion Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor (also for The Hit and Nineteen Eighty-Four)
1984 Success Is the Best Revenge Dino Montecurva
1984 Hit, TheThe Hit Braddock Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor (also for Champions and Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Mystfest for Best Actor (shared with: Terence Stamp and Tim Roth)
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four Winston Smith Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor (also for Champions and The Hit)
Fantasporto for Best Actor (tied with Eddy Mitchell for Frankenstein 90)
Valladolid International Film Festival for Best Actor (tied with Richard Burton)
1985 After Darkness Peter Hunningford Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
1985 Black Cauldron, TheThe Black Cauldron The Horned King Voice
1986 Jake Speed Sid
1987 Hunting of the Snark, TheThe Hunting of the Snark Narrator Voice
1987 Rocinante Bill
1987 From the Hip Douglas Benoit
1987 Spaceballs Kane Cameo of his Alien (1979) character 'Kane', humorously self-parodied with the line: "Oh no... Not again!"
1987 Aria The Actor Segment "I pagliacci"
1987 Vincent Narrator (Vincent van Gogh's Letters to his bother) Voice
1987 White Mischief Gilbert Colvile
1988 Bengali Night, TheThe Bengali Night Lucien Metz
1989 Scandal Stephen Ward
1989 Little Sweetheart Robert Burger
1990 Romeo-Juliet La Dame aux Chats
Mercutio
1990 Windprints Charles Rutherford
1990 The Field Bird O'Donnell Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1990 Frankenstein Unbound Dr. Joe Buchanan
Narrator
1991 I Dreamt I Woke Up John Boorman's Alter Ego
1991 King Ralph Lord Percival Graves
1992 Lapse of Memory Conrad Farmer
1993 Kölcsönkapott idő Sean
1993 L'Oeil qui ment Anthony / Le Marquis
1993 Monolith Villano
1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues The Countess
1994 Rabbit Ears: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp Storyteller Direct-to-video release
1994 Thumbelina Mr. Mole Voice only
1994 Second Best Uncle Turpin
1995 Two Nudes Bathing Marquis de Prey
1995 Saigon Baby Jack Lee
1995 Rob Roy John Graham, Marquis of Montrose
1995 Dead Man John Scholfield
1995 Wild Bill Charley Prince
1997 Tender Loving Care Dr. Turner Interactive CD-ROM film
1997 Love and Death on Long Island Giles De'Ath FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention of Chicago International Film Festival (shared with: Richard Kwietniowski)
Nominated – British Independent Film Awards for Best Performance by a British Actor in an Independent Film
1997 Contact S.R. Hadden
1997 Bandyta Babits
1998 The Commissioner James Morton Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival
1998 Night Train Michael Poole Verona Love Screens Film Festival for Best Actor
1998 All the Little Animals Mr. Summers
1999 Climb, TheThe Climb Chuck Langer
1999 New Blood Alan White
1999 Monkey's Tale, AA Monkey's Tale Sebastian English dub of French film Le Château des singes
1999 If... Dog... Rabbit... Sean Cooper
1999 You're Dead... Maitland
2000 Tigger Movie, TheThe Tigger Movie Narrator Voice
2000 Lost Souls Father Lareaux
2001 Tabloid Vince
2001 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Dr. Iannis
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Mr. Ollivander
2002 Miranda Christian
2002 Crime and Punishment Porfiry
2003 Owning Mahowny Victor Foss
2003 Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill Man from Maybury Hill
2003 Dogville Narrator Voice
2004 Hellboy Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
2004 Pride Harry Voice
2005 Short Order Felix
2005 Valiant Felix Voice
2005 Proposition, TheThe Proposition Jellon Lamb Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2005 Shooting Dogs Christopher
2005 Manderlay Narrator Voice
2005 Skeleton Key, TheThe Skeleton Key Ben Devereaux
2006 V for Vendetta Adam Sutler
2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Narrator Voice
2007 Boxes Le père de Fanny
2008 Outlander Rothgar
2008 Oxford Murders, TheThe Oxford Murders Arthur Seldom
2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Dr. Harold Oxley
2008 Hellboy II: The Golden Army Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm Cameo
2008 Lecture 21 Mondrian Kilroy
2009 Limits of Control, TheThe Limits of Control Guitar
2009 New York, I Love You Waiter
2009 44 Inch Chest Old Man Peanut Nominated – London Film Critics' Circle for Best British Supporting Actor
2010 Lou Doyle
2010 Ultramarines: The Movie Carnak Voice
2010 Brighton Rock Phil Corkery
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Mr. Ollivander
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Mr. Ollivander
2011 In Love with Alma Cogan Master of Ceremonies
2011 Melancholia Dexter
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Control Nominated — Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Nominated — International Chinephile Society Award for Best Cast (runner-up)
2011 Immortals Old Zeus
2012 Jayne Mansfield's Car Kingsley Bedford
2013 The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman Narrator Voice
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive Marlowe post-production
2013 Snowpiercer Gilliam post-production
2013 Benjamin Britten- Peace and Conflict Narrator post-production
2014 The Absinthe Drinkers Antonio Argenti filming
2014 Hercules: The Thracian Wars filming

Television[edit]

List of television performances
Year Title Role Notes
1961 Drama 61–67 Private Briggs Episode 1.16: "Drama '61: Local Incident"
1962 Z-Cars James Hogan Episode 1.29: "Assault"
1963 First Night Garry Episode 1.12: "Menace"
1964 Armchair Theatre Unknown Episode 4.102: "A Jug of Bread"
1964 Thursday Theatre Orpheus Episode 1.11: "Point of Departure"
1964–1965 ITV Play of the Week Various characters Appeared in three episodes
1965 Gideon's Way Freddy Tinsdale Episode 1.14: "The Tin God"
1973 Wessex Tales Joshua Harlborough Episode 1.3: "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions"
1974 Playboy of the Western World, TheThe Playboy of the Western World Christopher "Christy" Mahon television film
1975 Naked Civil Servant, TheThe Naked Civil Servant Quentin Crisp television film
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor; #4 in BFI TV 100
1976 Shades of Greene Fred Episode 2.6: "A Drive in the Country"
1976 Play for Today Alec Cassell Episode 6.22: "The Peddler"
1976 Sweeney, TheThe Sweeney Tony Grey Episode 3.4: "Tomorrow Man"
1976 I, Claudius Caligula TV mini-series
1977 Spectre Mitri Cyon television film
1979 Crime and Punishment Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov TV mini-series
1983 King Lear The Fool television film
1988 Deadline Granville Jones television film
1988 Storyteller, TheThe Storyteller The Storyteller Appeared in all nine first series episodes
1990 Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing, TheThe Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing Chris Mullin television film
1991 Journey to Knock Alfred television film
1991 Red Fox Archie Carpenter TV mini-series
1992 Six Characters in Search of an Author The Father television film
1993 Great Moments in Aviation Rex Goodyear
1995 Prisoners in Time Eric Lomax
1999–2000 Watership Down General Woundwort Multiple episodes; voice
2001 Beckett on Film – Krapp's Last Tape Krapp television film
2002 Bait Jack Blake
2004 Alan Clark Diaries, TheThe Alan Clark Diaries Alan Clark TV serial
2004 Pride Harry television film; voice
2005 Hiroshima Narrator Voice
2007 Hellboy: Blood and Iron Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm television film; voice
2007 Masters of Science Fiction Samswope Episode 1.4: "The Discarded"
2008 Recount Warren Christopher television film
2008–2012 Merlin (Seasons 1-5) The Great Dragon, Killgarrah Voice; does not appear in every episode, yet is credited in the opening title sequence for each episode. Also provides the narrative voice at the start of the title sequence.
2009 Gruffalo, TheThe Gruffalo The Owl Television film (children's), voice
2009 Paul O'Grady Show, TheThe Paul O'Grady Show Himself Penultimate episode
2009 Englishman in New York, AnAn Englishman in New York Quentin Crisp television film
Berlin International Film Festival – Teddy Award
Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
2010 Whistle and I'll Come to You James Parkin television film
2010 Human Planet Narrator Documentary
2011 Harry's Arctic Heroes Narrator Documentary
2011 Planet Dinosaur Narrator Documentary
2011 Gruffalo's Child, TheThe Gruffalo's Child[36] The Owl Television film (children's), voice
2012 Labyrinth Audric Baillard TV miniseries
2012 Jonathan Ross Show, TheThe Jonathan Ross Show Himself One episode
2012 Hollow Crown: Henry V, TheThe Hollow Crown: Henry V The Chorus Television film
2012 Playhouse Presents The Ministry Voice; one episode
2013 Doctor Who The Doctor (unknown incarnation) Episodes "The Name of the Doctor" and 50th anniversary special
TBA The Strain Professor Abraham Setrakian[37] Pilot

Video games[edit]

Other projects and contributions[edit]

  • When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics) – "Sonnet 145"
    ("Those lips that Love's own hand did make")
  • Hurt performs in drag for the promotional video for Attitude by the music group Suede.
  • Hurt is seen as the 'Brian Epstein' esque mogul in Paul McCartney's 1982 video for the song 'Take It Away'. McCartney explains in the video commentary section of The McCartney Years DVD (for the song 'Take it Away') that Hurt himself was a friend of the Beatles and Brian Epstein, and that the Beatles had watched Hurt act in the mid-'60s and thought him a fine actor.
  • Hurt is the narrator on the album The Seduction of Claude Debussy by the band Art of Noise (1999).
  • John Hurt is the narrator of the 4 part series released in 1999 on The Universe for Channel 4 International, available on DVD.
  • Hurt co-starred alongside Kiefer Sutherland in the 10 part web series The Confession.
  • Hurt can also be heard during the BBC's introduction to the 2012 British Grand Prix Qualifying Show
  • A line from the movie Nineteen Eighty Four, featuring the voice of Hurt can be heard as the introduction to the Manic Streets Preachers song "Faster"
  • In two volumes of a documentary called Life in the Animal Kingdom: Untamed Africa, filmed in the Maasai Mara Game Preserve in Kenya (the two volumes being calledHunter and Hunted and Survival on the Serengeti), Hurt served as the narrator.
  • Benjamin Britten – Peace and Conflict, a Britsh feature film written and directed by Tony Britten - narrator.[38]

References[edit]

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