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Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors. Director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". [1] [2] He possessed what was described as the "most distinctive voice in Britain".
John Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire to Phyllis and Arnould Herbert Hurt. His mother was an amateur actress and engineer while his father was a mathematician who became a clergyman for the Church of England. He even served as the Vicar of Shirebrook and St John’s parish, Sunderland.
Mar 27, 2024 · John Hurt (born January 22, 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England—died January 25, 2017, Cromer, Norfolk) British actor known for his insightful and sensitive portrayals of damaged or eccentric characters. Hurt, whose father was an Anglican minister, grew up in northern England. He studied art in London before enrolling at the Royal Academy ...
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Dec 30, 2014 · When he was 12, his father was appointed to a church in Grimsby, and Hurt was enrolled in a nearby school, where, by his own admission, he could be "distinctly lazy."
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Dec 2, 1990 · Long before the forehead furrowed and the skin around the eyes shriveled into sacs, John Hurt wore a worried look. "When I was a boy at Lincoln School in Britain," he recalls, "I had an English ...
Jan 28, 2017 · His first taste of acting came at his prep school in Kent, an establishment Hurt later described as "so high Anglo-Catholic it was flying". ... He went on to reprise the role in 2009 in a ...
Feb 1, 2017 · The British actor John Hurt died of pancreatic cancer last week at his home in England. He was 77. Originally known as a promising stage actor in the 1960s, he went on to give acclaimed ...
