

Acting
Sir John Vincent Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden...
Highest rated appearances
as Ollivander
as Self (archive footage)

Ayamé
as Narrator (voice)

Damascus Cover
as Miki

That Good Night
as Ralph

My Name Is Lenny
as Leslie Salmon

The Journey
as Harry Patterson

Jackie
as The Priest
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
as Siegfried Sassoon

Back to Utopia
as Professor Peter Panludic (voice)

The Final Reel
as Self - Narrator (voice)

ChickLit
as Francis Bonar

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
as Sailor John (voice)

A.K.A Nadia
as 347

Derelict by Job Willins
as Kane

Break
as Jack

The Alchemist's Letter
as The Alchemist (voice)

Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
as Narator

Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
as Narrator

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self

Hercules
as Cotys

Only Lovers Left Alive
as Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
as Self

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
as The War Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The War Doctor

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as The War Doctor (archive voice)

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
as The War Doctor

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Stephen Ward

Muse of Fire
as Self

Snowpiercer
as Gilliam

Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Kingsley Bedford

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
as Narrator (voice)

Sightseers
as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
as Narrator (voice)

More Than Honey
as Narrator (english voice)

The Snipist
as The Ministry

The Gruffalo's Child
as The Owl (voice)

Immortals
as Old Zeus

On Borrowed Time
as Self

In Love with Alma Cogan
as MC

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Control

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Ollivander

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
as Professor Orit

The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
as Narrator

The Confession
as Priest

Melancholia
as Dexter

Sailcloth
as Man

Whistle and I'll Come to You
as James Parkin

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
as Carnak

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Ollivander

Love at First Sight
as Arthur

Brighton Rock
as Phil Corkery
Behind Jim Jarmusch
as Self

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)

Lou
as Doyle

The Gruffalo
as Owl (voice)

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
as Self (archive footage)

Ballybrando
as Self

44 Inch Chest
as Old Man Peanut
Remembrance
as Bellhop

Waking Sleeping Beauty
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)

The Limits of Control
as Guitar

An Englishman in New York
as Quentin Crisp

Centenary: The BP Story
as Narrator (voice)

Lecture 21
as Mondrian Kilroy

New York, I Love You
as Bellhop

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
as Trevor Bruttenholm

Recount
as Warren Christopher

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Professor Harold Oxley

Outlander
as Rothgar

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen

The Oxford Murders
as Arthur Seldom

Boxes
as Fanny's father

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self

Interview with John Hurt
as Self

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Narrator (voice)

Whaledreamers
as Self

The Plot Against Harold Wilson
as Narrator (voice)

V for Vendetta: Unmasked
as Adam Sutler

Shooting Dogs
as Christopher

V for Vendetta
as Adam Sutler

The Proposition
as Jellon Lamb

Once Upon a Halloween
as The Horned King (voice) (archive sound)

Hiroshima
as Narrator (voice)

The Skeleton Key
as Ben Devereaux

Manderlay
as Narrator (voice)

Valiant
as Felix (voice)

Short Order
as Felix

Shadowing the Third Man
as Narrator (voice)

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
as Self

Pride
as Harry (voice)

Hellboy
as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
as Self

The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self

Dogville
as Narrator (voice)

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
as Man from Maybury Hill

Owning Mahowny
as Victor Foss

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")

The Alien Saga
as Narrator (voice)
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
as Self

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self

Crime and Punishment
as Porfiry, chief investigator

Bait
as Jack Blake

Miranda
as Christian

Shaolin: Wheel of Life
as Narrator (voice)

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
as Self

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Mr Ollivander

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
as Dr. Iannis

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
as Narrator (voice)

Tabloid
as Vince

Lost Souls
as Father Lareaux

Krapp's Last Tape
as Krapp

The Tigger Movie
as Narrator (voice)

New Blood
as Alan White

You're Dead...
as Maitland

If... Dog... Rabbit
as Sean Cooper

All the Little Animals
as Mr. Summers

The Climb
as Chuck Langer

Love and Death on Long Island
as Giles De'Ath

The Commissioner
as James morton

Night Train
as Michael Poole

Brute
as Babits

Contact
as S. R. Hadden

Tender Loving Care
as Dr. Turner

Dead Man
as John Scholfield
Saigon Baby
as Jack Lee

Wild Bill
as Charley Prince
On Jupiter
as Narrator (voice)

Rob Roy
as John Graham

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
as Marquis de Prey

The World of Jim Henson
as The Storyteller (archive footage)

Second Best
as Uncle Turpin

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
as Narrator (voice)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
as The Countess

Great Moments in Aviation
as Rex Goodyear

Thumbelina
as Mr. Mole (voice)

Monolith
as Villano

Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Father

Dark at Noon
as Anthony / Le Marquis

Red Fox
as Archie Carpenter

I Dreamt I Woke Up
as Boorman's Alter Ego
Journey to Knock
as Alfred

Lapse of Memory
as Conrad Farmer

King Ralph
as Graves

Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
as Narrator (voice)

Frankenstein Unbound
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
as Self

The Field
as Bird' O'Donnell

Resident Alien
as Self - Actor

Windprints
as Charles Rutherford

Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Chris Mullin

Romeo.Juliet
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)

Poison Candy
as Robert Burger

Scandal
as Stephen Ward

David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)

The Bengali Night
as Lucien Metz

A Dinner of Herbs
as Verse Reader

The Storyteller: The True Bride
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: Sapsorrow
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: A Story Short
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The Luck Child
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: Fearnot
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
as The Storyteller

Deadline
as Granville Jones

White Mischief
as Gilbert Colville

Vincent
as (voice)

Spaceballs
as John Hurt

Aria
as The Actor

The Hunting of the Snark
as The Narrator

From the Hip
as Douglas Benoit

Monolith
as Narrator (voice)

Iceberg
as Narrator (voice)
Frightmares
Rocinante
as Bill

Thames Film
as Narrator

Jake Speed
as Syd

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Narrator (voice)

The Black Cauldron
as The Horned King (voice)

Live Aid
as Self

After Darkness
as Peter Hunningford

Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Winston Smith

The Hit
as Braddock

Success Is the Best Revenge
as Dino Montecurva

Champions
as Bob Champion

Sunset People
as Self

The Osterman Weekend
as Lawrence Fassett

King Lear
as The Fool

The Plague Dogs
as Snitter (voice)
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
as Self

Partners
as Kerwin

Night Crossing
as Peter Strelzyk

History of the World: Part I
as Jesus - The Roman Empire

Heaven's Gate
as Billy Irvine

The Elephant Man
as John Merrick
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
as Host

Alien
as Kane

The Lord of the Rings
as Aragorn (voice)

Watership Down
as Hazel (voice)

Midnight Express
as Max

The Shout
as Anthony Fielding

The Disappearance
as Atkinson

East of Elephant Rock
as Nash

Three Dangerous Ladies
as Lt. George Simmonds

Spectre
as Mitri Cyon
The Island
as Captain Simmonds

Stream Line
as Chandler

The Peddler
as Alec Cassell

The Naked Civil Servant
as Quentin Crisp

The Ghoul
as Tom Rawlings

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
as Malcolm Scrawdyke
The Playboy of the Western World
as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)

The Pied Piper
as Franz
Green Julia
as Bob

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
as Richard Forbush

10 Rillington Place
as Timothy Evans