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| Born | John Vincent Hurt 22 January 1940 Chesterfield, England |
| Spouse(s) | Annette Robertson (1962-1964) Donna Peacock (1984-1990) Jo Dalton (1990-1996) Ann Rees Meyers (2005-) |
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, triple BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actor, well known for his portrayals of Thomas W. Kane in Alien and John Merrick in The Elephant Man. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Chesterfield is a historic Market town and local government district in Derbyshire, a County in England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works This article lists characters and actors in the ''Alien'' series of Science fiction films Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. The Elephant Man is a 1980 Biopic loosely based on the story of the 19th century British deformed celebrity Joseph Merrick (called John He is one of England's best-known, most prolific and sought-after actors, and has had a versatile career spanning over 40 years. [1] Other notable film credits include A Man for All Seasons, The Naked Civil Servant, 1984, Rob Roy, Hellboy and V for Vendetta. A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 film based on Robert Bolt 's play of the same name about Sir Thomas More. The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of an Autobiography by the Gay icon Quentin Crisp. Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British Film based upon George Orwell 's novel of the same name Rob Roy is a historical drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and released on April 7, 1995. Hellboy is a 2004 Supernatural action-thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro. V for Vendetta is a 2006 action - thriller Film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver He is also highly respected for his many Shakespearean roles. William Shakespeare ( baptised [2] His character's demise in Alien is generally regarded as one of the most chilling and unforgettable deaths in cinematic history. Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. [3]
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Hurt was born in Shirebrook near Chesterfield Derbyshire, the son of Phyllis (née Massey), an amateur actress and engineer, and Arnould Herbert Hurt, a mathematician who became an Anglican clergyman. Shirebrook is a town in the Bolsover district of north-east Derbyshire on the border with Nottinghamshire, England. Chesterfield is a historic Market town and local government district in Derbyshire, a County in England. History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs A cleric ( Ancient Greek κληρικός - klērikos clergyman (pl [4] Hurt has an older brother, Michael, a monk based in Ireland, and an adopted sister, Monica. His father was a vicar at St. John in Sunderland, but in 1937 he moved his family to Derbyshire, where he became Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity church. Sunderland (, or /ˈsʌn(dlən/ is a City in Tyne and Wear, England. When John was five, his father became the vicar of St. Stephen at Woodville in South Derbyshire and remained there until 1959. Woodville is a busy South Derbyshire village just outside Swadlincote in Derbyshire, England. South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.
Hurt had a strict upbringing: the family lived opposite a cinema but he was not allowed to visit. He was also not permitted to mix with local children because in his parents' view they were 'too common'. At the age of eight he decided to become an actor and his first role was that of a girl in a school production The Bluebird (L'Oiseau Bleu) by Maurice Maeterlinck. The Blue Bird ( L'Oiseau bleu) is a 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Count Maeterlinck ( August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian Poet, Playwright,
His father moved to St. Aidan church in Cleethorpes and Hurt 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. Lincoln Christ's Hospital School is a Comprehensive school for 11-18 year olds located on Wragby Road in Lincoln Lincolnshire, England. Lincoln (ˈlɪŋkən is a Cathedral city and County town of Lincolnshire, England. 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, saying "you wouldn't stand a chance in the profession. " At the age of 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 Teachers Diploma (ATD) at Central St. Martins College in Holborn, London. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design ( St) (often abbreviated as Central Saint Martins, Saint Martins or CSM) is widely regarded Holborn (ˈhoʊbɚn or /ˈhoʊbɝːn/ "ho bun" is an area of Central London, England Despite the scholarship, paying for his studies was financially difficult and so he persuaded some of his friends to pose nude and sold the portraits. In 1960 however he won a scholarship to RADA where he trained for two years. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as one of the most prestigious Drama schools in the world He was then cast in small roles on TV.
In 1962 Arnould Hurt left his parish in Cleethorpes to become headmaster of St Michael's College in the Latin American country of Belize. Belize (bəˈliːz formerly British Honduras, is a country in Central America. In that same year Hurt first performed on the London stage and married the actress Annette Robertson. The marriage ended in 1964. At the time Hurt was performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company In 1967 he began his longest relationship with the French model Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot. It lasted fifteen years and ended with her untimely death in a riding accident on 26 January 1983. Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)
Hurt married for the second time on the 6th of September 1984 to Texas actress and old friend Donna Peacock at a local Registrar's office. The Registrar General is the Government official responsible for the registration of births deaths and marriages in England and Wales. The couple moved to Kenya and tried unsuccessfully to have children through IVF. In vitro fertilisation ( IVF) is a process by which They divorced in early January 1990. Soon afterwards (on 24 January 1990) Hurt married American production assistant Jo Dalton whom he had met while filming Scandal. Events 41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel Despotism, is Assassinated by his disgruntled Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) With her he had two sons: Alexander John Vincent (born 6 February 1990) and Nicholas Dalton (born 5 February 1993). Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) This marriage ended in 1996. At one point Hurt was involved with Sarah Owen, twenty years his younger and with whom he lived in County Wicklow Ireland. County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin is a county on the east coast of Ireland, immediately south of Dublin. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world In March of 2005 Hurt married his fourth wife, advertising film producer Ann Rees Meyers.
Hurt's mother died in 1975 and his father lived until November 1999 when he died at the age of 95.
In January of 2002 John 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. The University of Derby is a University in the city of Derby, England. Doctor of Letters ( Latin: Litterarum doctor; DLitt; or Litt D The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English University, founded in 1927 located in Hull (or Kingston upon Hull) a
In 2007 Hurt took part in the genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are? which investigated part of his family history. Genealogy (from Greek: el γενεά el-Latn genea, "descent" and el λόγος el-Latn logos, "knowledge" is the study of Who Do You Think You Are? is a British Genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004 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. However the genealogical evidence uncovered seemed to contradict the family legend, rendering the 'suggestion' doubtful. [5]
Hurt's first film was 1962's The Wild and the Willing, but his first major role was as Richard Rich in 1966's A Man for All Seasons. Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (1496/7 - June 12, 1567) was Lord Chancellor during the reign of King Edward VI of England. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 film based on Robert Bolt 's play of the same name about Sir Thomas More. However, it was his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the 1975 TV play, The Naked Civil Servant, that shot him to fame and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Quentin Crisp ( –) born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer artist's model actor and Raconteur known for his memorable and insightful The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of an Autobiography by the Gay icon Quentin Crisp. The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs &mdash or to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards The following year, Hurt played the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial, I, Claudius. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31 AD 12 &ndash January 24 AD 41 more commonly known by his nickname Caligula (kəˈlɪɡjʊlə was a Roman Emperor I Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves 's ''I Claudius'' and ''Claudius the God''. In 1978, he appeared in Midnight Express, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Midnight Express is a 1978 film, based on Billy Hayes ' book of the same name adapted into screenplay by Oliver Stone. Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts He subsequently developed a successful film career, with his best known roles including 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 the Academy Award for Best Actor. This article lists characters and actors in the ''Alien'' series of Science fiction films Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. Spaceballs is a 1987 Science fiction Parody film of Star Wars co-written directed by and starring Mel Brooks. The Elephant Man is a 1980 Biopic loosely based on the story of the 19th century British deformed celebrity Joseph Merrick (called John Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to recognize He also had a starring role in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but hugely successful final film, The Osterman Weekend (1983). David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21 1925 &ndash December 28 1984 was an American Film director who achieved iconic status following the release The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 thriller and Suspense film based on the novel by Robert Ludlum and directed by Also in 1983 he starred as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King in King Lear. Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606 and is considered one of his greatest works Hurt also appeared as Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment in the BBC series of that name in 1980. This article is about the fictional protagonist of Crime and Punishment.
Hurt has also taken roles in famous political allegories, first playing the hero in an early production and then the tyrannical villain in a later work. For instance, he played Winston Smith in the 1984 adaptation of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and then assumed the role of a Big Brother-esque leader of a fascist Great Britain in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, a movie that drew many parallels to the world of Orwell's 1984. Winston Smith is a Fictional character and the Protagonist of George Orwell 's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British Film based upon George Orwell 's novel of the same name Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984) by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is a 1949 English Novel Big Brother is a Fictional character in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands V for Vendetta is a 2006 action - thriller Film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver Similarly, 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. Hazel is a fictional Rabbit, the central character in Richard Adams 's fantasy Novel Watership Down. Watership Down is a 1978 Animated film directed by Martin Rosen and based on the book by Richard Adams. General Woundwort is a fictional character in the Richard Adams novel Watership Down. Watership Down is an animated television series adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Adams.
In 1986, Hurt provided the voiceover for AIDS: Iceberg / Tombstone, a public information film warning of the dangers of AIDS. Public Information Films (known as PIFs) are a series of government commissioned short films shown during television advertising breaks in the UK. In 2001, he played Mr. Ollivander, the wand-maker, in the first Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The following are supporting characters in the Harry Potter series written by J Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (published in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is the first novel in He hasn't returned for any other of the Harry Potter films. Harry Potter is a series of seven Fantasy novels written by British author J In 1999, Hurt provided narration on the British musical group Art of Noise's concept album The Seduction of Claude Debussy. Art of Noise were an Avant-garde Synthpop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session The Seduction of Claude Debussy is an ambitious 1999 Concept album by Art of Noise, featuring a lineup of Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley He was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2004. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. In May 2008, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Harold Oxley. Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (Hon (born December 18 1946 is an American Film director, Screenwriter and producer. [6]
In 2008, 28 years after The Naked Civil Servant, Hurt will reprise the role of Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York. The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of an Autobiography by the Gay icon Quentin Crisp. The new film will depict Crisp's latter years in New York. [7]
It's unknown if he will return to his role as Ollivander in the last Harry Potter film as Ollivander plays a important role in the book.
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| Preceded by Edward Fox for A Bridge Too Far |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1978 for Midnight Express |
Succeeded by Robert Duvall for Apocalypse Now |
| Preceded by Peter Firth for Equus |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 1979 for Midnight Express |
Succeeded by Robert Duvall for Apocalypse Now |
| Preceded by Burt Lancaster for Atlantic City |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1980 for The Elephant Man |
Succeeded by Jack Lemmon for The China Syndrome |