Biography: life and films
John Hurt is an English actor. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England on 22nd January 1940.His best films as an actor include Richard Fleischer's crime-thriller 10 Rillington Place (1971), David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980), Patrick Dewolf's thriller Lapse of Memory (1992), Björn Cederberg's Förräderi (1994) and Michael Caton-Jones's Shooting Dogs (2005).
John Hurt has so far appeared in 112 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Richard Kwietniowski (3 films), Michael Caton-Jones (3), Lars von Trier (3), Jim Jarmusch (3), Stuart Cooper (2), Michael Radford (2), Martin Rosen (2), Jerzy Skolimowski (2), Guillermo del Toro (2) and Fatih Akin (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (71 films), Thriller (28), romance (11), crime-thriller (11), Fantasy (11), Animation (11), comedy (10), Horror (9), Biography (8), history (5), Western (5), comedy-drama (3), War (3), Documentary (3) and comedy-romance (2).
Our average rating for John Hurt over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor
The Wild and the Willing (1962) [a]
This Is My Street (1964) [a]
A Man for All Seasons (1966) [a]
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) [a]
Before Winter Comes (1969) [a]
In Search of Gregory (1969) [a]
Sinful Davey (1969) [a]
10 Rillington Place (1971) [a]
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971) [a]
The Pied Piper (1972) [a]
Little Malcolm (1974) [a]
La Linea del fiume (1975) [a]
The Ghoul (1975) [a]
East of Elephant Rock (1977) [a]
The Disappearance (1977) [a]
Three Dangerous Ladies (1977) [a]
Midnight Express (1978) [a]
The Lord of the Rings (1978) [a]
The Shout (1978) [a]
Watership Down (1978) [a]
Alien (1979) [a]
An Evening with Quentin Crisp (1980) [a]
Heaven's Gate (1980) [a]
Night Crossing (1981) [a]
Partners (1982) [a]
The Plague Dogs (1982) [a]
The Osterman Weekend (1983) [a]
Champions (1984) [a]
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) [a]
Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) [a]
Sunset People (1984) [a]
The Hit (1984) [a]
After Darkness (1985) [a]
The Black Cauldron (1985) [a]
Jake Speed (1986) [a]
From the Hip (1987) [a]
Rocinante (1987) [a]
The Hunting of the Snark (1987) [a]
Vincent (1987) [a]
La Nuit Bengali (1988) [a]
White Mischief (1988) [a]
Little Sweetheart (1989) [a]
Scandal (1989) [a]
Frankenstein Unbound (1990) [a]
Resident Alien (1990) [a]
Romeo-Juliet (1990) [a]
The Field (1990) [a]
King Ralph (1991) [a]
Lapse of Memory (1992) [a]
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) [a]
L'Oeil qui ment (1993) [a]
Monolith (1993) [a]
Förräderi (1994) [a]
Thumbelina (1994) [a]
Dead Man (1995) [a]
Rob Roy (1995) [a]
Saigon Baby (1995) [a]
Two Nudes Bathing (1995) [a]
Wild Bill (1995) [a]
Bandyta (1997) [a]
Love and Death on Long Island (1997) [a]
All the Little Animals (1998) [a]
The Climb (1998) [a]
The Commissioner (1998) [a]
If... Dog... Rabbit (1999) [a]
Le Château des singes (1999) [a]
New Blood (1999) [a]
You're Dead... (1999) [a]
Lost Souls (2000) [a]
The Tigger Movie (2000) [a]
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) [a]
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) [a]
Tabloid (2001) [a]
Crime and Punishment (2002) [a]
Miranda (2002) [a]
Dogville (2003) [a]
Owning Mahowny (2003) [a]
Hellboy (2004) [a]
Manderlay (2005) [a]
Shooting Dogs (2005) [a]
Short Order (2005) [a]
The Proposition (2005) [a]
The Skeleton Key (2005) [a]
V for Vendetta (2005) [a]
Valiant (2005) [a]
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) [a]
Boxes (2007) [a]
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) [a]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) [a]
Lezione 21 (2008) [a]
New York, I Love You (2008) [a]
Outlander (2008) [a]
44 Inch Chest (2009) [a]
An Englishman in New York (2009) [a]
The Limits of Control (2009) [a]
Brighton Rock (2010) [a]
Lou (2010) [a]
Sammy's avonturen: De geheime doorgang (2010) [a]
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010) [a]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) [a]
Immortals (2011) [a]
In Love with Alma Cogan (2011) [a]
Melancholia (2011) [a]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) [a]
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) [a]
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) [a]
Snowpiercer (2013) [a]
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013) [a]
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