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Hurt is the narrator of the 4 part series The Universe for Channel 4 International, released in 1999 and available on DVD. Hurt co-starred alongside Kiefer Sutherland in the 10 part web series The Confession. A line from the movie Nineteen Eighty-Four featuring the voice of Hurt can be heard as the introduction to the Manic Street Preachers ...
YearTitleRoleDirector2018MikiDaniel Zelik Berk2017RalphEric Styles2017Leslie SalmonRon Scalpello2016Back to UtopiaPeter PanludicFabio WuytackJohn Hurt. Actor: 1984. One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England.
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Alien (1979) R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi. The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin. Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright. Votes: 944,356 | Gross: $78.90M.
4. White Mischief. 1987 1h 47m R. 6.4 (3.2K) Rate. In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation. Director Michael Radford Stars Sarah Miles Joss Ackland John Hurt. 5.
- The Hit. Terence Stamp plays the ostensible lead in Stephen Frears' underrated British gangster film, but it's John Hurt's turn as an inscrutable hitman that sticks in the memory.
- Scandal. Michael Caton-Jones' "Scandal" is an overlooked gem, and its success is largely due to John Hurt's witty, acidic performance. The Profumo Affair was one of the most notorious British scandals of the '60s, as the UK secretary of state, John Profumo (Ian McKellen), was revealed to be having an affair with 19-year-old model Christine Keeler (Joanne Whalley).
- The Elephant Man. Perhaps the role that most people associate with Hurt, John Merrick remains the most achingly humane performance in his filmography.
- Midnight Express. I've never really liked Alan Parker's "Midnight Express," the story of an American drug runner imprisoned in a brutal Turkish prison.
Feb 13, 2024 · The Elephant Man. Film (1980) 60 votes. In the gripping biographical drama, The Elephant Man, John Merrick (John Hurt) is a severely deformed man in 19th century London. Exploited in a sideshow as the Elephant Man, he's eventually rescued by kindly Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins), who provides him with a chance at a dignified life.
Mar 24, 2024 · Runtime. 80 minutes. The Black Cauldron is a lesser-known animated Disney movie based on The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of novels centered around Welsh mythology. In the film, the Horned King is a demonic, skull-faced emperor set on finding the titular magical cauldron to rule the world.
