drednm Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 British actor John Hurt died...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Geez. They're droppin' like flies lately! Sorry to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Hurt was one of my favorite English actors, one whose work I would seek out. A Man for All Seasons, 10 Rillington Place, Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man, Heaven's Gate, The Hit, 1984, Rob Roy, Contact, 44 Inch Chest, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are just a few films featuring engaging performances from Hurt. I had read that he was battling a hard-to-beat form of cancer sometime in the last few years, so I had been expecting this news for awhile. His pain has ended, and he's left us with many fine movies to remember him by. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 So sad, what a great actor. I just saw him in Jackie. He was excellent as the priest. And who can forget him as Caligula in I Claudius? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I just saw about Hurt on IMDb. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 In addition to the films LawrenceA mentioned, I would add he was in Snowpiercer, Hellboy and Hellboy II: the Golden Army, Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, V for Vendetta, two of the Harry Potter movies including the first one, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Lost Souls, Contact, Dead Man and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and was the narrator of Dogville. One of my all-time favorites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I am very sorry to hear this. He was a great actor with a noble soul. I believe that I will remember him most fondly as: The War Doctor and as: Ollivander. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Sir John was one of the best things about "A Man for All Seasons" as the ambitious Richard Rich, who betrays Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) for personal gain. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1966 almost 50 years ago. It's so hard to believe that most of the cast members are gone now. An exception is Vanessa Redgrave, who appears briefly as Anne Boleyn. The actress turns 80 on Monday. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 And how cool was it that Hurt played George Orwell's Winston Smith in "1984" (1984)... ...and the Big Brother-like High Chancellor of the United Kingdom in "V for Vendetta" (2005)? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 And since someone already took the 1984 reference and the Spaceballs clip, all that has me left with is mentioning in the great "Literary animated" year of 1978, he not only voiced Hazel in the animated "Watership Down", but also Aragorn in the Ralph Bakshi "Lord of the Rings": 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 John Hurt is one of my all-time favourites. Champions (1984) is a little seen film of John's that deserves to be right up there with his best. As it says on the imdb it is the true story of steeple chase jockey Bob Champion who was diagnosed with cancer but then went on to win the Grand National. R.I.P, John. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 One of my favorites for sure. Didn't see everything he's done, but liked him in everything I've seen. I can't seem to remember when I first took notice of him. I'm just glad that I did. Ahhhhhh.................... Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayban Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 John Hurt was an actor who constantly challenged himself. I first took notice of him in "10 Rillington Place". His portrayal of Quentin Crisp in "The Naked Civil Servant" is one of the actor's greatest performances. Rest in peace, Mr. Hurt, you will never be forgotten. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 VarietyVerified account@Variety More A tribute to John Hurt: A playful master who made his inner hurt ours http://bit.ly/2kDVpGH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I was just thinking about him yesterday, remembering a news story about his cancer sometime last year. He was wonderful. His characters were so varied, and all of them interesting to the point where I often forgot the other actors in the film. RIP, Mr. Hurt. "Wanna take a ride?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Hurt wasn't too shabby in nineteen eighty-for either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 And how cool was it that Hurt played George Orwell's Winston Smith in "1984" (1984)... ...and the Big Brother-like High Chancellor of the United Kingdom in "V for Vendetta" (2005)? Good point, jakeem. Goes to show how well Hurt could, as they say, stretch as an actor, doesn't it. And, how many actors come to mind who can be so believable and interesting as both the oppressed and the oppressor in various films? (...can't think of that many, right off the top of my head, anyway) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Good point, jakeem. Goes to show how well Hurt could, as they say, stretch as an actor, doesn't it. And, how many actors come to mind who can be so believable and interesting as both the oppressed and the oppressor in various films? (...can't think of that many, right off the top of my head, anyway) How about Lord Olivier as the quintessential ex-Nazi in "Marathon Man" (1976)? And as the determined Nazi hunter in "The Boys from Brazil" (1978)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Yes, but considering we're comparing Hurt's abilities in this regard with the great Olivier's, I'm sure John would have found this high praise indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I'll dumb it down a little. When the American Film Institute presented its 2003 television special on the top movie heroes and villains, Arnold Schwarzenegger made the list in both categories. The T-800 (Model 101), the relentless killing machine from "The Terminator" (1984), was the No. 22 villain. The reprogrammed Terminator from the 1991 sequel "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," was the No. 48 hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 And Lee Marvin won an Oscar for playing gunslinging brothers with different temperaments in "Cat Ballou" (1965). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayban Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I've always wanted to ask him what it was like to work with Ryan O'Neal in "Partners". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 BFIVerified account@BFI More John Hurt: 10 essential films http://bit.ly/2jfY5ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Hurt wasn't too shabby in nineteen eighty-for either. Nineteen eighty for what either which? Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I just saw about Hurt on IMDb. That scene took a lot of guts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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