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| Modest Mouse | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Issaquah, Washington, United States |
| Genres | Indie rock, experimental rock, indie folk, lo-fi (early) |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Epic, Up, K, Matador |
| Associated acts | Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Seasick Steve, Ugly Casanova, The Smiths, The Cribs, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Built to Spill, Grandaddy, The Helio Sequence, Zeus Jimenez, Big Boi, Mister Heavenly, Satisfact |
| Website | www.modestmousemusic.com |
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| Isaac Brock Eric Judy Jeremiah Green Joe Plummer Tom Peloso Jim Fairchild |
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| Robin Peringer John Wickhart Dann Gallucci Benjamin Weikel Johnny Marr |
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Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band based in Portland, Oregon.[1][2] They were formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their lineup has centered around Brock, Green and Judy. Guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths) joined the band in May 2006, along with percussionist Joe Plummer (formerly of the Black Heart Procession) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Guitarist Jim Fairchild joined the band in February 2009. Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" which reads, "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."[3]
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In 1994, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Eric Judy and John Wickhart recorded their first EP, Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?, at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios. It was released by K Records. A single, "Broke", followed under Sub Pop that was recorded by Steve Wold (now better known as bluesman Seasick Steve) at Moon Studios. During this time, Modest Mouse also recorded what would have been their first album, Sad Sappy Sucker, but constant delays caused the album to be shelved and forgotten. It was not until 2001 that it was officially released. Until making waves in the pop music world in 2004, many of their tours included stops at DIY/punk venues.
After moving to Up Records,[4] Modest Mouse released two full-length albums and other recordings recorded at Moon Studios, including the 1996 LP This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. This album was produced and recorded by Steve Wold (at the time Wold was assisting in the recordings as well, but was not officially part of the band). The next offering was Interstate 8, also produced by Wold. The 1997 album, The Lonesome Crowded West, (also recorded at Moon Studios, by Scott Swayze) turned out to serve as the band's breakthrough. The Lonesome Crowded West gained the band a cult following, and is now popularly considered to be one of the defining albums of mid-1990s indie rock. Prior to its release, the band had recorded the EP The Fruit That Ate Itself. In 1999, Up Records released a singles and rarities collection entitled Building Nothing Out of Something, which included the entirety of Interstate 8 except for the songs "Edit the Sad Parts" and "Buttons to Push the Buttons".
In 2000, Modest Mouse released The Moon & Antarctica, their first album on Epic Records. Due in large part to a broken jaw Brock suffered a few months prior, the album ended up being more instrumental than their previous works. Not knowing if he would be able to sing, Brock focused on making a more instrumental and experimental album.[5] The band enjoyed some success on alternative radio with the singles "3rd Planet" and "Gravity Rides Everything." The album was critically well-received[6] including a 9.8 out of 10 score from online music magazine, Pitchfork Media.[7] It has subsequently gone on to receive further acclaim.[8] Brock has since released an album with his side project Ugly Casanova on Sub Pop, which was the only side project allowed due to the contract. The band licensed "Gravity Rides Everything" for a commercial for Nissan's Quest minivan, a move that Brock has publicly acknowledged as blatantly commercial but necessary to achieve financial stability. Regarding the commercial, Brock stated, "People who don't play music for a living can criticize my morals while they live off their parents' money or wash dishes for some asshole."[9]
In 2001, Modest Mouse released the EP Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, a collection of unused songs from the recording sessions of The Moon and Antarctica. In 2002, they joined Cake, De La Soul, The Flaming Lips, The Hackensaw Boys and Kinky on the Unlimited Sunshine Tour.
In March 2003, Green left the band after suffering a nervous breakdown;[10] the official word was that he was leaving to work with his side project, Vells. The same year, he and bass guitarist Eric Judy appeared on Adam Forkner's first solo album, VVRSSNN. Green was replaced by two new members, drummer Benjamin Weikel (who also drummed for The Helio Sequence, as well as playing keyboard) and guitarist Dann Gallucci (who had been a member of Modest Mouse previously, and appears on Sad Sappy Sucker and The Lonesome Crowded West). On April 6, 2004, Modest Mouse released their fourth album, the platinum-selling Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which had two hits with "Float On" and "Ocean Breathes Salty" (both of which they performed on Saturday Night Live on November 13, 2004[11]). The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Rock Album that year. Later that year, Green returned to the band, and Weikel returned to drumming exclusively for The Helio Sequence. Gallucci left the band in August.
In May 2006, Dann Gallucci (who had left the band amicably in September 2004) was replaced on guitar by Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths. Their next album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, was released on March 20, 2007[12] after being delayed from December 19, 2006. It was the first Modest Mouse album to reach number one on the US Billboard 200 charts, and had the hit single "Dashboard", as well as "Missed the Boat" and "We've Got Everything". Modest Mouse released singles for the songs "Satellite Skin", "Autumn Beds" and "Perpetual Motion Machine" in limited editions (a run of 4,000 each) vinyl 7 inches, featuring artwork by art director and illustrator Joshua Marc Levy, J.Alex Stamos, and Natasha Wheat.
The band began a North American tour in June 2008. The band returned to Florida for the first time since their November 2006 Bang Music Festival show where they were cut off stage early, with three shows in Miami, Orlando and St. Augustine.[13] While an update on the Modest Mouse blog was subtitled catching up on some words for the next tour, it is in fact the lyrics to Heart Cooks Brain.[14] Modest Mouse finished their tour supporting We Were Dead after two years of promoting the record.
Jim Fairchild of Grandaddy and All Smiles replaced Marr as guitarist, when Marr left the band after joining The Cribs, beginning with the support of No One's First and You're Next, which was released on August 4, 2009,[15] composed of unreleased tracks from the recording sessions of Good News for People Who Love Bad News and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.[16]
In 2010 The Moon & Antarctica was re-released on vinyl for the first time in ten years as part of Record Store Day.[17]
On July 4, 2010 the band headlined the second day of the 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, [18] and the first day of the End Of The Road Festival in Dorset, England, on September 10, 2010.[19] At the end of August 2010, Modest Mouse played on the main stage at the Leeds and Reading festivals.
On April 28, 2011, Big Boi said via Twitter that he had been in the studio with Modest Mouse working with them on their next LP.[20] On May 29th Modest Mouse played two new songs during their headline of the Sasquatch festival. The songs were called "Poison the Well" and "Lampshades on Fire".[21] They then contributed a cover of the Buddy Holly song "That'll Be The Day" to the compilation Rave On Buddy Holly, which was released on June 28, 2011. Recently Modest Mouse had played at Splendour in the Grass in Woodford, Queensland on July 29th, 2011,[22] and The Warfield in San Francisco on January 25th, 2012.
According to e-mails sent from Glacial Pace which responded to fans confused about the large gaps between albums, Modest Mouse is indeed currently writing and recording material and have been for quite some time. But despite this, the e-mail also reminds fans that the fact that Isaac named his record label "Glacial Pace" was not an accident. Thus, it remains unclear when Modest Mouse will finally release their next album.
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| Mississippi John Hurt | |
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 Hurt making a recording for the Library of Congress in 1964. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | John Smith Hurt |
| Born | (1893-07-03)July 3, 1893 or (1892-03-08)March 8, 1892 Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi, United States |
| Origin | Avalon, Mississippi |
| Died | November 2, 1966(1966-11-02) Grenada, Mississippi |
| Genres | Country blues, Delta blues, Folk |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, Sharecropper, Farm hand |
| Instruments | Guitar, Vocals |
| Years active | 1928, 1963 – 1966 |
| Labels | Okeh Vanguard |
| Associated acts | Shell Smith Willie Narmour |
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| Guild F-30NT | |
John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893[1][2] or March 8, 1892[3] — November 2, 1966) was an American country blues singer and guitarist.[4]
Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine. Singing in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked accompaniment,[5] he began to play local dances and parties while working as a sharecropper. He first recorded for Okeh Records in 1928, but these were commercial failures, and Hurt drifted out of the recording scene, where he continued his work as a farmer. After a man discovered a copy of one of his recordings, "Avalon Blues", which gave the location of his hometown, there became increased interest in his whereabouts. Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, would be the first to locate Hurt in 1963. He convinced Hurt to relocate to Washington, D.C., where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. This rediscovery helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era. Hurt entered the same university and coffeehouse concert circuit as his contemporaries, as well as other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement. As well as playing concerts, he recorded several studio albums for Vanguard Records.
He died in Grenada, Mississippi. Material recorded by Hurt has been re-released by many record labels over the years (see discography); and his influence has extended over many generations of guitarists. Songs recorded by Hurt have been covered by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Beck, Doc Watson, John McCutcheon, Taj Mahal, Bruce Cockburn, David Johansen, Bill Morrissey and Guthrie Thomas.
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Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc,[6] Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age nine. He was completely self-taught, playing his mother's boyfriend's guitar whenever he stayed over at her house. His style was not reminiscent of any other style being played at the time; it was the way Hurt "thought the guitar should sound". He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farmhand into the 1920s.[7] His fast, highly syncopated style of playing made his music adept for dancing. On occasion, a medicine show would come through the area; Hurt recalls being wanted by one of them. "One of them wanted me, but I said no because I just never wanted to get away from home."[6] In 1923 he partnered with the fiddle player Willie Narmour as a substitute for his regular partner Shell Smith.[7]
When Narmour got a chance to record for Okeh Records as a prize for winning first place in a 1928 fiddle contest, he recommended Hurt to Okeh Records producer Tommy Rockwell. After auditioning "Monday Morning Blues" at his home, he took part in two recording sessions, in Memphis and New York City (see Discography below).[7] While in Memphis, Hurt recalled seeing "many, many blues singers ... Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and lots, lots more."[6] Hurt described his first recording session as such:
... a great big hall with only the three of us in it: me, the man [Rockwell], and the engineer. It was really something. I sat on a chair, and they pushed the microphone right up to my mouth and told me that I couldn't move after they had found the right position. I had to keep my head absolutely still. Oh, I was nervous, and my neck was sore for days after.[6]
Hurt attempted further negotiations with OKeh to record again, but after the commercial failure of the resulting records, and Okeh Records going out of business during the Great Depression, Hurt returned to Avalon and obscurity, working as a sharecropper and playing local parties and dances.[5]
After Hurt's renditions of "Frankie" and "Spike Driver Blues" were included in The Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952, and an Australian man discovered a copy of "Avalon Blues", there became increased interest in finding Hurt himself.[8] In 1963, a folk musicologist, Tom Hoskins, supervised by Richard Spottswood, was able to locate Hurt near Avalon, Mississippi using the lyrics of "Avalon Blues":[8]
Avalon, my home town, always on my mind/Avalon, my home town.
While in Avalon, Hoskins convinced an apprehensive Hurt to perform several songs for him, to ensure that he was genuine.[8] Hoskins was convinced, and seeing that Hurt's guitar playing skills were still intact, Hoskins encouraged him to move to Washington, D.C., and begin performing on a wider stage. His performance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival saw his star rise amongst the new folk revival audience.[5] Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records.[5] Much of his repertoire was recorded for the Library of Congress, also. His fans particularly liked the ragtime songs "Salty Dog" and "Candy Man", and the blues ballads "Spike Driver Blues" (a variant of "John Henry") and "Frankie".[5]
Hurt's influence spanned several music genres including blues, country, bluegrass, folk and contemporary rock and roll. A soft-spoken man, his nature was reflected in the work, which consisted of a mellow mix of country, blues and old time music.[7]
Hurt died of a heart attack in Grenada, Mississippi.[9]
Hurt incorporated a fast, pick-less, syncopated fingerpicking style that he taught himself. He was influenced by very few people; but does recall an elderly, unrecorded, blues singer from that area, Rufus Hanks, who played twelve-string guitar and harmonica.[6] He also recalls listening to the country singer Jimmie Rodgers. Many of his songs were in very basic keys (C, G, D, F, etc.), his fingers picking notes within the chords. On occasion, Hurt would use an open tuning and a slide, as he did in his arrangement of "The Ballad of Casey Jones".[8][6]
There is now a memorial in Avalon, Mississippi for Mississippi John Hurt. It is parallel to RR2, the rural road on which he grew up.
American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, who met Hurt and played on the same bill as him at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977 entitled "Did You Hear John Hurt?" Paxton still frequently plays this song at his live performances.
The first track of John Fahey's 1968 solo acoustic guitar album Requia is entitled "Requiem For John Hurt". Fahey's posthumous live album The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick also features a version of the piece, there entitled "Requiem For Mississippi John Hurt".
British folk/blues artist Wizz Jones recorded a tribute song called "Mississippi John" for his 1977 album Magical Flight.
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| Name | Hurt, John Smith |
| Alternative names | Mississippi John Hurt |
| Short description | American country blues singer and guitarist |
| Date of birth | July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 |
| Place of birth | Teoc, Mississippi, United States |
| Date of death | November 2, 1966 |
| Place of death | Grenada, Mississippi, United States |
| John Hurt | |
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 Hurt at the Festival de Dinard, 2009 |
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| Born | John Vincent Hurt (1940-01-22) 22 January 1940 (age 72) Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Spouse | Annette Robertson (1962–64; divorced) Donna Peacock (1984–90; divorced) Jo Dalton (1990–96; divorced; 2 children) Ann Rees Meyers (2005–present) |
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor and former voice actor. Among other honours, he has received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award, and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition.[1]
Hurt is known for his leading roles as Joseph Merrick (billed as John Merrick) in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, and Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York. Recognizable for his distinctive rich voice,[2] he has also enjoyed a successful voice acting career, starring in films such as Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings and Dogville, as well as BBC television series Merlin.
Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, and has since appeared in such popular motion pictures as: Alien, Midnight Express, Rob Roy, V for Vendetta, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first, penultimate, and last Harry Potter films, the Hellboy film series, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Hurt is one of England's best-known, most prolific and sought-after actors, and has had a versatile film career spanning six decades.[3] He is also known for his many Shakespearean roles.[4] His character's final scene in Alien is consistently named as one of the most memorable in cinematic history.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
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John Hurt was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, when his father was vicar of Shirebrook.[12] He is the son of Phyllis (née Massey), an amateur actress and engineer, and Arnould Herbert Hurt, a mathematician who became an Anglican clergyman.[4] Hurt has an older brother, Br. Anselm (born Michael), a Roman Catholic convert, who became a monk and writer at Glenstal Abbey, to whose books his younger brother John has contributed.[13]
Hurt also has 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. When John was five, his father became the vicar of St Stephens Church at Woodville, South Derbyshire and remained there until 1952. In 1945, John's father founded 1st Woodville (St Stephens) Scout Group which is still going strong today.[citation needed]
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".[14] Hurt's mother died in 1975, and his father died in 1999 at the age of 95.
At the age of eight he was sent to the Anglican St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he eventually developed his passion for acting. He decided he wanted 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. While he was a pupil at the school he was abused by Donald Cormack (now deceased), then Senior Master of the school and later Head Teacher (until his retirement in 1981).[15] Hurt described how Cormack would remove his two false front teeth and put his tongue in the boys' mouths, and how he would rub their faces with his stubble. Hurt said that the experience affected him "hugely".[16]
His father moved to St Aidan's Church in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Hurt (then aged 12) 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. 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."[14]
Aged 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. 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 he won a scholarship to RADA where he trained for two years. He was then cast in small roles on TV.[citation needed].
Hurt's first film was The Wild and the Willing (1962), but his first major role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons (1966). His portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the 1975 TV play The Naked Civil Servant gave prominence and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The following year, Hurt played the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial, I, Claudius. In 1978, he appeared in Midnight Express, for which he won a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the latter of which he lost to Christopher Walken for his performance in The Deer Hunter). 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 version.
His roles at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s included 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 a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also had a starring role in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but moderately successful final film, The Osterman Weekend (1983). Also in 1983 he starred as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King in King Lear. Hurt also appeared as Raskolnikov in the BBC series Crime and Punishment in 1980.
Hurt has 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 Adam Sutler (a Big Brother-esque leader of a fascist Great Britain) in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, a film that drew many parallels to the world of Orwell's 1984.
In 1985, Hurt starred in Disney's The Black Cauldron, voicing the film's main antagonist, the Horned King. In 1986, Hurt provided the voiceover for AIDS: Iceberg / Tombstone, a public information film warning of the dangers of AIDS. In 1988 He voiced the main role in The StoryTeller, a professional capturer of imagination. He had a memorable supporting role as "Bird" O'Donnell in Jim Sheridan's 1990 film The Field, which garnered him another BAFTA nomination. In 2001, he played Mr. Ollivander, the wand-maker, in the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He returned for the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though his scenes in that film were cut. He also returned for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. In 1999, Hurt provided narration on the British musical group Art of Noise's concept album The Seduction of Claude Debussy. He was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2004. During this time, he narrated a four part series on the Universe which was released on DVD in 1999. In May 2008, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Harold Oxley.[17] He is also the voice of The Great Dragon Kilgharrah, who aids the young warlock Merlin as he protects the future king Arthur, in the BBC television series Merlin.[18]
In 2008, 33 years after The Naked Civil Servant, Hurt reprised the role of Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York. This film depicts Crisp's later years in New York.[19]
In June 2009, Hurt played the on-screen Big Brother for Paper Zoo Theatre Company's production of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The theatre production premiered at the National Media Museum, in Bradford and will be touring during early 2010. Hurt said, "I think Paper Zoo thought it would be quite ironic to have the person who played Winston having risen in the party. From the Chestnut Tree Cafe, he's managed to get his wits together again, now understanding that 2 and 2 make 5, and becomes Big Brother. So it tickled my fancy, and of course I looked up Paper Zoo, and they seem to me to be the sort of company that’s essential in the country as we know it, and doing a lot of really good stuff."[20]
Hurt is due to appear alongside Ben Kingsley in a new feature entitle Broken Dream which will be directed by Neil Jordan in 2011.[21] At the 65th British Academy Film Awards Hurt won the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.
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In 1962, Hurt's father left his parish in Cleethorpes to become headmaster of St Michael's College in the Central American country of Belize. In that same year, John Hurt first performed on the London stage and married actress Annette Robertson. The marriage ended in 1964. In 1967 he began his longest relationship, with French model Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot, sister of fashion photographer Jean-Claude Volpeliere-Pierrot. The couple had planned to get married after fifteen years, when events took a tragic turn on 26 January 1983: Hurt and Volpeliere-Pierrot went horse riding early in the morning near their house in Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Volpeliere-Pierrot was thrown off her horse and suffered a tragic fall. She went into a coma and died later that day.[citation needed]
Hurt married Texan actress and old friend Donna Peacock at a local Registrar's office on 6 September 1984. The couple moved to Kenya. They divorced in early January 1990.
On 24 January 1990, Hurt married American production assistant Jo Dalton whom he had met while filming Scandal. With her he had two sons: Sasha John Vincent Hurt (born 6 February 1990) and Nick Hurt (born 5 February 1993), who are currently residing in County Waterford, Ireland. Nick has gone to acting school in England and wishes to follow in his father's footsteps. This marriage ended in 1996 and was followed with a seven year relationship with Dublin born presenter and writer Sarah Owens. The couple moved to County Wicklow where they settled close to their friends, director John Boorman and Claddagh Records founder and Guinness heir The Hon Garech de Brun. In July 2002 the couple separated. In March 2005, Hurt married his fourth wife, advertising film producer Anwen Rees Meyers.
In January 2002, 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.
In 2007, Hurt took part in the BBC genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated part of his family history. 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. The genealogical evidence uncovered seemed to contradict the family legend, rendering the 'suggestion' doubtful. Coincidentally, the search revealed that his great-grandmother had previously lived in Grimsby at a location within a mile of the art college at which Hurt had once enrolled.[22]
Since 2006, John Hurt has been a patron of Project Harar, a UK-based charity working in Ethiopia for children with facial disfigurements.[23]
Since 2009, he has been patron of QUAD. On 25 September 2009 Hurt visited QUAD and took part in a Q&A directly preceding a screening of the film The Night Train as part of the festivities, celebrating the first birthday at QUAD (opened on 26 September 2008). The day after, 26 September, John Hurt was guest of honour at Derby County vs Bristol City and went on the pitch at Pride Park Stadium at half time to oversee a prize draw.[citation needed]
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| 1962 | Wild and the Willing, TheThe Wild and the Willing | Phil | |
| 1963 | This Is My Street | Charlie | |
| 1966 | Man for All Seasons, AA Man for All Seasons | Richard Rich | |
| 1967 | Sailor from Gibraltar, TheThe Sailor from Gibraltar | John | |
| 1969 | In Search of Gregory | Daniel | |
| 1969 | Sinful Davey | Davey Haggart | |
| 1969 | Before Winter Comes | Lieutenant Pilkington | |
| 1971 | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Richard Forbush | |
| 1971 | 10 Rillington Place | Timothy John Evans | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 1972 | Pied Piper, TheThe Pied Piper | Franz | |
| 1974 | Little Malcolm | Malcolm Scrawdyke | |
| 1975 | Ghoul, TheThe Ghoul | Tom Rawlings | |
| 1975 | Linea del fiume, LaLa Linea del fiume | Chandler | |
| 1977 | East of Elephant Rock | Nash | |
| 1977 | Three Dangerous Ladies | Lt. Simmonds | |
| 1977 | Disappearance, TheThe Disappearance | Atkinson | |
| 1978 | Watership Down | Hazel | Voice role |
| 1978 | Shout, TheThe Shout | Anthony Fielding | |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Max | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1978 | Lord of the Rings, TheThe Lord of the Rings | Aragorn | Voice role |
| 1979 | Alien | Kane | DVDX Award for Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) (2003 re-issue in Alien Quadrilogy, shared with Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, Terry Rawlings, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright and Harry Dean Stanton) Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 1980 | Elephant Man, TheThe Elephant Man | John Merrick | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1980 | Heaven's Gate | Billy Irvine | |
| 1981 | Night Crossing | Peter Strelzyk | |
| 1981 | History of the World, Part I | Jesus Christ | |
| 1982 | Partners | Kerwin | |
| 1982 | Plague Dogs, TheThe Plague Dogs | Snitter | Voice |
| 1983 | Osterman Weekend, TheThe Osterman Weekend | Lawrence Fassett | |
| 1984 | Champions | Bob Champion | Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best ActorAlso for The Hit and Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 1984 | Success Is the Best Revenge | Dino Montecurva | |
| 1984 | Hit, TheThe Hit | Braddock | Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best ActorAlso for Champions and Nineteen Eighty-Four Mystfest for Best ActorShared with: Terence Stamp and Tim Roth |
| 1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith | Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best ActorAlso for Champions and The Hit Fantasporto for Best ActorTied with Eddy Mitchell for Frankenstein 90 Valladolid International Film Festival for Best ActorTied with Richard Burton |
| 1985 | After Darkness | Peter Hunningford | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival |
| 1985 | Black Cauldron, TheThe Black Cauldron | The Horned King | Voice |
| 1986 | Jake Speed | Sid | |
| 1987 | Hunting of the Snark, TheThe Hunting of the Snark | Narrator | Voice |
| 1987 | Rocinante | Bill | |
| 1987 | From the Hip | Douglas Benoit | |
| 1987 | Spaceballs | Kane | Cameo of his "Alien" (1979) character 'Kane', humorously self-parodied with the line: "Oh no... Not again!" |
| 1987 | Aria | The Actor | Segment "I pagliacci" |
| 1987 | Vincent | Narrator (Vincent van Gogh's Letters to his bother) | Voice |
| 1987 | White Mischief | Gilbert Colvile | |
| 1988 | Bengali Night, TheThe Bengali Night | Lucien Metz | |
| 1989 | Scandal | Stephen Ward | |
| 1989 | Little Sweetheart | Robert Burger | |
| 1990 | Romeo-Juliet | La Dame aux Chats Mercutio |
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| 1990 | Windprints | Charles Rutherford | |
| 1990 | Field, TheThe Field | Bird O'Donnell | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Dr. Joe Buchanan Narrator |
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| 1991 | I Dreamt I Woke Up | John Boorman's Alter Ego | |
| 1991 | King Ralph | Lord Percival Graves | |
| 1992 | Lapse of Memory | Conrad Farmer | |
| 1993 | Kölcsönkapott idő | Sean | |
| 1993 | L'Oeil qui ment | Anthony / Le Marquis | |
| 1993 | Monolith | Villano | |
| 1993 | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | The Countess | |
| 1994 | Rabbit Ears: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp | Storyteller | Direct-to-video release |
| 1994 | Thumbelina | Mr. Mole | Voice |
| 1994 | Felidae | Pascal (Claudandus) | Voice (English dub) |
| 1994 | Second Best | Uncle Turpin | |
| 1995 | Two Nudes Bathing | Marquis de Prey | |
| 1995 | Saigon Baby | Jack Lee | |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | John Graham, Marquis of Montrose | |
| 1995 | Dead Man | John Scholfield | |
| 1995 | Wild Bill | Charley Prince | |
| 1997 | Tender Loving Care | Dr. Turner | Interactive CD-ROM film |
| 1997 | Love and Death on Long Island | Giles De'Ath | FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention of Chicago International Film FestivalShared with: Richard Kwietniowski Nominated – British Independent Film Awards for Best Performance by a British Actor in an Independent Film |
| 1997 | Contact | S.R. Hadden | |
| 1997 | Bandyta | Babits | |
| 1998 | The Commissioner | James Morton | Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival |
| 1998 | Night Train | Michael Poole | Verona Love Screens Film Festival for Best Actor |
| 1998 | All the Little Animals | Mr. Summers | |
| 1999 | Climb, TheThe Climb | Chuck Langer | |
| 1999 | New Blood | Alan White | |
| 1999 | Monkey's Tale, AA Monkey's Tale | Sebastian | English dub of French film Le Château des singes |
| 1999 | If... Dog... Rabbit... | Sean Cooper | |
| 1999 | You're Dead... | Maitland | |
| 2000 | Tigger Movie, TheThe Tigger Movie | Narrator | Voice |
| 2000 | Lost Souls | Father Lareaux | |
| 2001 | Tabloid | Vince | |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Dr. Iannis | |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Mr. Ollivander | |
| 2002 | Miranda | Christian | |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry | |
| 2003 | Owning Mahowny | Victor Foss | |
| 2003 | Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill | Man from Maybury Hill | |
| 2003 | Dogville | Narrator | Voice |
| 2004 | Hellboy | Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm | |
| 2004 | Pride | Harry | Voice |
| 2005 | Short Order | Felix | |
| 2005 | Valiant | Felix | Voice |
| 2005 | Proposition, TheThe Proposition | Jellon Lamb | Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| 2005 | Shooting Dogs | Christopher | |
| 2005 | Manderlay | Narrator | Voice |
| 2005 | Skeleton Key, TheThe Skeleton Key | Ben Devereaux | |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | Adam Sutler | |
| 2006 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Narrator | Voice |
| 2007 | Boxes | Le père de Fanny | |
| 2008 | Outlander | Rothgar | |
| 2008 | Oxford Murders, TheThe Oxford Murders | Arthur Seldom | |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Dr. Harold Oxley | |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | Cameo |
| 2008 | Lecture 21 | Mondrian Kilroy | |
| 2009 | Limits of Control, TheThe Limits of Control | Guitar | |
| 2009 | New York, I Love You | Waiter | |
| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Old Man Peanut | Nominated – London Film Critics' Circle for Best British Supporting Actor |
| 2010 | Lou | Doyle | |
| 2010 | Ultramarines: The Movie | Carnak | Voice |
| 2010 | Brighton Rock | Phil Corkery | |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Mr. Ollivander | |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Mr. Ollivander | |
| 2011 | Melancholia | Dexter | |
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Control | |
| 2011 | Immortals | Old Zeus | |
| 2012 | The Absinthe Drinkers | Antonio Argenti | filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1961 | Drama 61–67 | Private Briggs | Episode 1.16: "Drama '61: Local Incident" |
| 1962 | Z-Cars | James Hogan | Episode 1.29: "Assault" |
| 1963 | First Night | Garry | Episode 1.12: "Menace" |
| 1964 | Armchair Theatre | Unknown | Episode 4.102: "A Jug of Bread" |
| 1964 | Thursday Theatre | Orpheus | Episode 1.11: "Point of Departure" |
| 1964–1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Various characters | Appeared in three episodes |
| 1965 | Gideon's Way | Freddy Tinsdale | Episode 1.14: "The Tin God" |
| 1973 | Wessex Tales | Joshua Harlborough | Episode 1.3: "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" |
| 1974 | Playboy of the Western World, TheThe Playboy of the Western World | Christopher "Christy" Mahon | television film |
| 1975 | Naked Civil Servant, TheThe Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | television film British Academy Television Award for Best Actor; #4 in BFI TV 100 |
| 1976 | Shades of Greene | Fred | Episode 2.6: "A Drive in the Country" |
| 1976 | Play for Today | Alec Cassell | Episode 6.22: "The Peddler" |
| 1976 | Sweeney, TheThe Sweeney | Tony Grey | Episode 3.4: "Tomorrow Man" |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | Caligula | TV mini-series |
| 1977 | Spectre | Mitri Cyon | television film |
| 1979 | Crime and Punishment | Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov | TV mini-series |
| 1983 | King Lear | The Fool | television film |
| 1988 | Deadline | Granville Jones | television film |
| 1988 | Storyteller, TheThe Storyteller | The Storyteller | Appeared in all nine first series episodes |
| 1990 | Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing, TheThe Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing | Chris Mullin | television film |
| 1991 | Journey to Knock | Alfred | television film |
| 1991 | Red Fox | Archie Carpenter | TV mini-series |
| 1992 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | The Father | television film |
| 1993 | Great Moments in Aviation | Rex Goodyear | |
| 1995 | Prisoners in Time | Eric Lomax | |
| 1998 | Saturday Night Live | March Hare | Episode 23.17 |
| 1999–2000 | Watership Down | General Woundwort | Multiple episodes; voice |
| 2001 | Beckett on Film – Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | television film |
| 2002 | Bait | Jack Blake | |
| 2004 | Alan Clark Diaries, TheThe Alan Clark Diaries | Alan Clark | TV serial |
| 2004 | Pride | Harry | television film; voice |
| 2005 | Hiroshima | Narrator | Voice |
| 2007 | Hellboy: Blood and Iron | Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm | television film; voice |
| 2007 | Masters of Science Fiction | Samswope | Episode 1.4: "The Discarded" |
| 2008 | Recount | Warren Christopher | television film |
| 2008–Present | Merlin (Seasons 1,2,3,4 – pres) | The Great Dragon, Killgarrah | Voice; does not appear in every episode, yet is credited in the opening title sequence for each episode. |
| 2009 | The Gruffalo | The Owl | television film (Children's), voice |
| 2009 | Paul O'Grady Show, TheThe Paul O'Grady Show | Himself | Penultimate episode |
| 2009 | Englishman in New York, AnAn Englishman in New York | Quentin Crisp | television film Berlin International Film Festival – Teddy Award Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |
| 2010 | Whistle and I'll Come to You | James Parkin | television film |
| 2010 | Human Planet | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2011 | Harry's Arctic Heroes | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2011 | Planet Dinosaur | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2011 | The Gruffalo's Child[24] | The Owl | television film (Children's), voice |
| 2012 | Labyrinth | Audric Baillard | TV miniseries |
| 2012 | The Jonathan Ross Show | Himself | One episode |
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| Name | Hurt, John |
| Alternative names | Hurt, John Vincent |
| Short description | English Actor |
| Date of birth | 1940-01-22 |
| Place of birth | Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England |
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