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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
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.'
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.
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.
Judging by the rest of your post you weren't exactly decrepit when you gave up.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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.