William McChord Hurt [1] [2] (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. For his performances on stage and screen, he has received various awards including an Academy Award , a British Academy Film Award , and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor , in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards , two Primetime ...

John Hurt. Actor: 1984. One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England.

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 28 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors.

Jan 28, 2017 · Fellow British actor Jon Finch had originally been cast as astronaut Kane but developed a debilitating illness on his first day of filming and had to be hospitalised. That night in a mild panic...

Jan 29, 2017 · John Hurt, versatile actor of screen and stage, Golden Globe winner, dies at 77. Arguably one of the most multifaceted of actors, Hurt burst on the world stage as the co-star of Alan Parker’s Midnight Express (1978), a fact-based movie starring Brad Davis as an American student caught smuggling drugs and imprisoned in a Turkish jail.

Jan 28, 2017 · Twice nominated for an Oscar for playing the tortured John Merrick in David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” and for his role as the heroin addict Max in “Midnight Express,” Hurt’s career spanned over 50 years.

Jan 28, 2017 · Starring opposite Brad Davis, who played the main character Billy Hayes, an imprisoned American college student, Hurt delivered an astounding performance that proved his chops in Hollywood...

Jan 28, 2017 · He played Max, an English heroin addict who befriends an American imprisoned on drug charges, joins him in an escape attempt, and is left behind by him in a wrenching goodbye scene. Hurt won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his performance as Max and was nominated for his first Academy Award.

Jan 28, 2017 · The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in “The Elephant Man,” terrify them in “Alien,” and spoof that very same scene in “Spaceballs,” has died. He was 77. Hurt,...

Jan 28, 2017 · LONDON (AP) — As a self-described “old drunk,” the actor John Hurt nonetheless had a half-century career highlighted with memorable performances, two Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe and four...