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Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 (hollywoodreporter.com)
Slashdot reader necro81 writes: A fantastic chameleon of the stage and screen has died. Sir John Hurt passed away at age 77. Slashdot readers should recognize him as the first person to have a xenomorph burst from his chest in the original Alien (a scene he later parodied in Spaceballs ). Others may recall he played the downtrodden protagonist Winston Smith in the film adaption of 1984 , then later played the tyrannical High Chancellor in V for Vendetta . Also: the titular character in The Elephant Man, Caligula in I, Claudius, Ollivander in the Harry Potter films and, more recently, Gilliam in Snowpiercer. But his career spanned decades and genres, and our world is a bit meeker and colorless without him.
Hurt also appeared as the War Doctor in five episodes of the new Doctor Who series, and provided the voice of Aragorn in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
Hurt also appeared as the War Doctor in five episodes of the new Doctor Who series, and provided the voice of Aragorn in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
Hurt also played the unforgettable, self-proclaimed God, Caligula in I, Claudius.
...The Storyteller.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Besides being the War Doctor in five TV episodes, he played the role in a number of audio plays for Big Finish: https://www.bigfinish.com/rang... I don't know if the final volume (due out next month) was finished or not.
Seriously, you posted this 2 days after he died. This is not news anymore.
What the hell happened to this site? What's a turd this place has become.
He played reclusive billionaire S.R. Hadden, who went to the Mir space lab to manage his cancer.
In Laurence Olivier's "King Lear," he played the Fool. In "10 Rillington Place," he played a man hanged for a murder he did not commit, in "Champions," a jockey afflicted with cancer; in "Shout," a cuckolded church organist; in "A Man for All Seasons," the duplicitous Richard Rich, and in "Scandal," Stephen Ward, the osteopath at the center of the so-called Profumo affair, Britain's infamous imbroglio of politics and sex. Hurt liked to joke that for a moment after "The Elephant Man," he thought he was in danger of being typecast: "What would you think would be the first part that was offered me following 'Elephant Man?' Try 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.'
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
We need to buy as many movies and tv shows that he starred in, and then BURN EVERY LAST VIDEO IN A BONFIRE!!! ...hard drives and usb drives should also be tossed into the fire.
He was born and lived in England and was never a US citizen.
THE classic Sci-Fi Horror scene of the alien popping out of his gut.
Good times! Good times!
I think John would say to today's politicians. 'The problem is, young warlock, that you wish to talk but you don't wish to listen.'
Mary Tyler Moore also died the exact same day.
2017 is already off to a great start.
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Don't worry about him. He's just a member of the Soviet agit-prop that's part of every web forum now.
He spent quite a long time being a drunken pig and people would not employ him. He played a drunk in the television police serious called the Sweeney. He played in the television programme Doctor Who, and then in the drama ( I Claudius ). And a television film called ( the naked civil servant 1975 ).
He played the Welshman who was hanged for the murder he did not commit ( 10 Rillington Place 1971 )
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Playing the bounty hunter ( The Proposition 2005)
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Mr Forbush and the Penguins 1971 ( I was very young at school learning English being shocked by the hardness of nature ).
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I do not mind films if I happened to see them but I do not like actors and actresses I find them boring shallow people. The person they play in the film is not the person they are and I know that and I often do not like the people they are. I would not like to get to know the people they are. But I sometimes like the people they play.
I liked the film ( Mr Forbush and the Penguins 1971 ) because it startled me there was a big world out there and I was going to travel it.
When I met the actor in England London he was with a television actor and he was drunk and I just did not like him. Although I liked the character he played.
There would probably be an actor or an actress I liked if I met them but mostly I do not like them and I have met quite a few because of work.
I will never forget his masterpiece of a autobiographical movie where he relates his issue with highschool bullying, chiefly being forced into his own locker by a gang of bullies.
The Hurt locker is really my favorite movie.
... HURT. You get it?
Why do we care when celebrities die? People make a big deal out of it, and I've come to the conclusion that there are two good reasons:
1) When an artist (actor, singer, etc.) produces work that touches our lives, they've become a part of our culture. When we die, we mourn because that work became a part of us. This is, from another perspective, the same reason we get upset about alterations to movies like Star Wars and E.T.--it's not just some movie owned by someone else, but a part of our culture and a part of us.
2) When an artist dies who is still actively producing work, we mourn for the work we will never be able to see. It's one thing when a retired actor dies, it's another thing when we were looking forward to their next movie or the next season of their television show. If not for this cancer, we might still be seeing John Hurt for another decade, but now we won't.
The soldier and death episode was one of the few I got to see, and remember warmly to this day.
Of course, his portrayal of the war doctor will be embedded in my memory for a long time.
I hope you show up in actor heaven with that famous sack.
Thank you Sir John Hurt.
We prefer the term afro-American, cracker.
When John Rhys-Davies smothered George Baker. How John Hurt and John Rhys-Davies managed to keep a straight face is incredible. George Baker slumped dead on the proceeded to sprout a boner that raised a tent in his robe. You could see Rhys-Davies holding back a what could have been a scene busting laugh and John Hurt managed to keep his face completely straight during the whole scene. IMO that is the key to acting and the fact that the directors did not cut out the shot of George Baker pretending to be dead with a boner is priceless! Far well Sir John you were a great actor and my favorite consummate villain of the stage and screen,
Hurt was a great actor, always memorable. Did he ever do anything terrible?? I can't remember one thing he did that was a bad role.
Don't forget Helboy or Hellboy 2, thought he was great in both as Hellboy's adopted father. Kinda surprised it wasn't mentioned in the summary, both were pretty recent and big movies.