John Hurt

'John Hurt' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Hurt, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Hercules

  2014, role: actor , character name: Cotys
• Play in Full Screen The Strain

  2014, role: actor , character name: Professor Abraham Setrakian
• Play in Full Screen Muse of Fire

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen King Lear: Scene 133

  2013, role: actor , character name: King Lear
• Play in Full Screen The World in Action Years

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman

  2013, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Look Again

  2013, role: actor , character name: Harry
• Play in Full Screen Snowpiercer

  2013, role: actor , character name: Gilliam
• Play in Full Screen Only Lovers Left Alive

  2013, role: actor , character name: Marlowe
• Play in Full Screen Hello: A Portrait of Leslie Phillips

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - #Scandal
• Play in Full Screen Alien Encounters: Superior Fan Power Since 1979

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Jayne Mansfield's Car

  2012, role: actor , character name: Kingsley Bedford
• Play in Full Screen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: UK Premiere Featurette

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Sightseers

  2012, role: actor , character name: Narrator - Blake's "Jerusalem"
• Play in Full Screen The Orange British Academy Film Awards

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sailcloth

  2011, role: actor , character name: Man
• Play in Full Screen Immortals

  2011, role: actor , character name: Old Man
• Play in Full Screen The Gruffalo's Child

  2011, role: actor , character name: Owl
• Play in Full Screen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

  2011, role: actor , character name: Ollivander
• Play in Full Screen The Confession

  2011, role: actor , character name: Priest
• Play in Full Screen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

  2011, role: actor , character name: Control
• Play in Full Screen Regret Not Speaking

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Melancholia

  2011, role: actor , character name: Dexter
• Play in Full Screen In Love with Alma Cogan

  2011, role: actor , character name: Master of Ceremonies
• Play in Full Screen 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes

  2011, role: actor , character name: Professor Orit
• Play in Full Screen Angel Makers

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Sammy's avonturen: De geheime doorgang

  2010, role: actor , character name: Grandpa Sammy
• Play in Full Screen Spur der Bären

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

  2010, role: actor , character name: Ollivander
• Play in Full Screen Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie

  2010, role: actor , character name: Brother Carnak
• Play in Full Screen The British Academy Television Awards

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Whistle and I'll Come to You

  2010, role: actor , character name: James Parkin
• Play in Full Screen Love at First Sight

  2010, role: actor , character name: Arthur
• Play in Full Screen Lou

  2010, role: actor , character name: Doyle
• Play in Full Screen No One Gets Off in This Town

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Brighton Rock

  2010, role: actor , character name: Phil Corkery
• Play in Full Screen Creating the World of Harry Potter, Part 1: The Magic Begins

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen An Englishman in New York

  2009, role: actor , character name: Quentin Crisp
• Play in Full Screen The Limits of Control

  2009, role: actor , character name: Man with Guitar
• Play in Full Screen Pride of Britain Awards 2009

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 44 Inch Chest

  2009, role: actor , character name: Old Man Peanut
• Play in Full Screen The Gruffalo

  2009, role: actor , character name: Owl
• Play in Full Screen Outlander

  2008, role: actor , character name: Hrothgar
• Play in Full Screen Closing: Team Indy

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Strictly Courtroom

  2008, role: actor , character name: Timothy John Evans
• Play in Full Screen The Big Fat Quiz of the Year

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actor , character name: Arthur Seldom
• Play in Full Screen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

  2008, role: actor , character name: Professor Oxley

Famous quotes by John Hurt:

"His life has really opened up since I made him a Senator"

"If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong."

"I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish."

"I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement."

"I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money."

"I think the director, John Huston, took on the picture because he's been trying to outdo his father, Walter Huston, and that's impossible. How do you cope with a genius? I couldn't communicate with my own father."

"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."

"I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe."

"What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem. It's governments and politics that make wars and do stupid things, and they should be attended to. There's no security in this life."

"I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!"

"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."

"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."

"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."

"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."

"As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well."

"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."

"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."

"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."

John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt

Born: 1893-07-03

Died: 1966-11-02