John Hurt

John Hurt

acting Jan 22, 1940 Jan 25, 2017 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

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2 nominations

226 of 226 films rated

IMDb avg 6.7
IMDb median 6.7
RT avg 60%
RT median 63%

highest rated

acting

  1. The Storyteller: Sapsorrow → The Storyteller
  2. Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War → The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
  3. Henry Fonda for President → Self (archive footage)
  4. Doctor Who at the Proms → The Doctor (War) (archive footage)
  5. Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony → Self (archive footage)
  6. Ayamé → Narrator (voice)
  7. Damascus Cover → Miki
  8. The Journey → Harry Patterson
  9. That Good Night → Ralph
  10. My Name Is Lenny → Leslie Salmon
  11. Jackie → The Priest
  12. ChickLit → Francis Bonar
  13. The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets → Siegfried Sassoon
  14. Back to Utopia → Professor Peter Panludic (voice)
  15. The Final Reel → Self - Narrator (voice)
  16. The Last Panthers (TV) → Tom
  17. Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie → Sailor John (voice)
  18. Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song → The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)
  19. A.K.A Nadia → 347
  20. Break → Jack
  21. Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces → Narator
  22. The Alchemist's Letter → The Alchemist (voice)
  23. Hercules → Cotys
  24. Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film → Self
  25. Wimbledon The Official Film 2014 → Narrator
  26. Snowpiercer → Gilliam
  27. Only Lovers Left Alive → Christopher Marlowe
  28. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor → The War Doctor
  29. Jayne Mansfield's Car → Kingsley Bedford
  30. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot → The War Doctor (archive voice)
  31. Muse of Fire → Self
  32. Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty → Self
  33. Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips → Self / Stephen Ward
  34. Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor → The War Doctor
  35. The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro → The War Doctor
  36. Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict → Narrator (voice)
  37. Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre → The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self
  38. Playhouse Presents (TV) → The Ministry (voice)
  39. The Hollow Crown (TV) → The Chorus
  40. Labyrinth (TV) → Audric Baillard
  41. Sightseers → Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  42. More Than Honey → Narrator (english voice)
  43. The Snipist → The Ministry
  44. Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers → Narrator (voice)
  45. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 → Ollivander
  46. Immortals → Old Zeus
  47. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy → Control
  48. Melancholia → Dexter
  49. The Confession (TV) → Priest
  50. Human Planet (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  51. The Gruffalo's Child → The Owl (voice)
  52. Planet Dinosaur (TV) → Narrator
  53. The Confession → Priest
  54. In Love with Alma Cogan → MC
  55. On Borrowed Time → Self
  56. Sailcloth → Man
  57. The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa → Narrator
  58. 23 Degrees, 5 Minutes → Professor Orit
  59. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 → Ollivander
  60. A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures → Grandpa Sammy (voice)
  61. Brighton Rock → Phil Corkery
  62. Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie → Carnak
  63. Love at First Sight → Arthur
  64. Whistle and I'll Come to You → James Parkin
  65. Lou → Doyle
  66. Behind Jim Jarmusch → Self
  67. The Gruffalo → Owl (voice)
  68. Waking Sleeping Beauty → The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
  69. 44 Inch Chest → Old Man Peanut
  70. The Limits of Control → Guitar
  71. An Englishman in New York → Quentin Crisp
  72. Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World → Self (archive footage)
  73. Ballybrando → Self
  74. Remembrance → Bellhop
  75. Centenary: The BP Story → Narrator (voice)
  76. Merlin (TV) → Kilgharrah (voice)
  77. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull → Professor Harold Oxley
  78. New York, I Love You → Bellhop
  79. Hellboy II: The Golden Army → Trevor Bruttenholm
  80. Outlander → Rothgar
  81. The Oxford Murders → Arthur Seldom
  82. Recount → Warren Christopher
  83. Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
  84. Lecture 21 → Mondrian Kilroy
  85. Masters of Science Fiction (TV) → Samswope
  86. Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron → Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)
  87. The 50 Greatest Television Dramas → Self
  88. Boxes → Fanny's father
  89. Interview with John Hurt → Self
  90. V for Vendetta → Adam Sutler
  91. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer → Narrator (voice)
  92. Shooting Dogs → Christopher
  93. Whaledreamers → Self
  94. 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked → Adam Sutler
  95. The Plot Against Harold Wilson → Narrator (voice)
  96. Doctor Who (TV) → The Doctor
  97. Valiant → Felix (voice)
  98. The Skeleton Key → Ben Devereaux
  99. Manderlay → Narrator (voice)
  100. The Proposition → Jellon Lamb
  101. Hiroshima → Narrator (voice)
  102. Once Upon a Halloween → The Horned King (voice) (archive sound)
  103. Short Order → Felix
  104. Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction (TV) → Narrator
  105. Who Do You Think You Are? (TV) → Self
  106. Hellboy → Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
  107. The Alan Clark Diaries (TV) → Alan Clark
  108. Pride → Harry (voice)
  109. Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation → Self
  110. Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' → Self
  111. Shadowing the Third Man → Narrator (voice)
  112. Dogville → Narrator (voice)
  113. Owning Mahowny → Victor Foss
  114. The Beast Within: Making Alien → Self
  115. Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film → Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")
  116. Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill → Man from Maybury Hill
  117. HypaSpace (TV) → Self
  118. The Alien Saga → Narrator (voice)
  119. Crime and Punishment → Porfiry, chief investigator
  120. Miranda → Christian
  121. Bait → Jack Blake
  122. Edge of the Universe (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  123. I, Claudius: A Television Epic → Self
  124. The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past → Self
  125. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone → Mr. Ollivander
  126. Captain Corelli's Mandolin → Dr. Iannis
  127. Tabloid → Vince
  128. Shaolin: Wheel of Life → Narrator (voice)
  129. The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed → Self
  130. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm → Narrator (voice)
  131. The Tigger Movie → Narrator (voice)
  132. Lost Souls → Father Lareaux
  133. Krapp's Last Tape → Krapp
  134. Watership Down (TV) → General Woundwort (voice)
  135. New Blood → Alan White
  136. All the Little Animals → Mr. Summers
  137. If... Dog... Rabbit → Sean Cooper
  138. You're Dead... → Maitland
  139. Parkinson (TV) → Self
  140. The Climb → Chuck Langer
  141. Love and Death on Long Island → Giles De'Ath
  142. The Commissioner → James morton
  143. Night Train → Michael Poole
  144. Contact → S. R. Hadden
  145. Brute → Babits
  146. Tender Loving Care → Dr. Turner
  147. Dead Man → John Scholfield
  148. Rob Roy → John Graham
  149. Wild Bill → Charley Prince
  150. Picture Windows (TV) → Marquis de Prey
  151. On Jupiter → Narrator (voice)
  152. Saigon Baby → Jack Lee
  153. Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing → Marquis de Prey
  154. Thumbelina → Mr. Mole (voice)
  155. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues → The Countess
  156. The World of Jim Henson → The Storyteller (archive footage)
  157. Second Best → Uncle Turpin
  158. Inside the Actors Studio (TV) → Self
  159. Great Moments in Aviation → Rex Goodyear
  160. Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp → Narrator (voice)
  161. GMTV (TV) → Self
  162. Monolith → Villano
  163. Dark at Noon → Anthony / Le Marquis
  164. Six Characters in Search of An Author → The Father
  165. Performance (TV) → The Father
  166. King Ralph → Lord Percival Graves
  167. Red Fox → Archie Carpenter
  168. Lapse of Memory → Conrad Farmer
  169. I Dreamt I Woke Up → Boorman's Alter Ego
  170. Journey to Knock → Alfred
  171. The Field → Bird' O'Donnell
  172. Frankenstein Unbound → Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)
  173. Who Bombed Birmingham? → Chris Mullin
  174. Romeo.Juliet → La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)
  175. Windprints → Charles Rutherford
  176. Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch → Self
  177. Resident Alien → Self - Actor
  178. Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool → Narrator (voice)
  179. The Jim Henson Hour (TV)
  180. Scandal → Stephen Ward
  181. Poison Candy → Robert Burger
  182. David Macaulay: Pyramid → Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)
  183. The Storyteller (TV) → The Storyteller
  184. The Bengali Night → Lucien Metz
  185. Deadline → Granville Jones
  186. The Storyteller: The Luck Child → The Storyteller
  187. The Storyteller: The True Bride → The Storyteller
  188. The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant → The Storyteller
  189. The Storyteller: A Story Short → The Storyteller
  190. The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death → The Storyteller
  191. The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog → The Storyteller
  192. The Storyteller: Fearnot → The Storyteller
  193. Spaceballs → John Hurt
  194. Aria → The Actor
  195. White Mischief → Gilbert Colville
  196. From the Hip → Douglas Benoit
  197. Vincent → (voice)
  198. Iceberg → Narrator (voice)
  199. The Hunting of the Snark → The Narrator (voice)
  200. Frightmares
  201. Monolith → Narrator (voice)
  202. Jake Speed → Syd
  203. Rocinante → Bill
  204. Thames Film
  205. The Black Cauldron → The Horned King (voice)
  206. Live Aid → Self
  207. The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima → Narrator (voice)
  208. After Darkness → Peter Hunningford
  209. Nineteen Eighty-Four → Winston Smith
  210. The Hit → Braddock
  211. Champions → Bob Champion
  212. Success Is the Best Revenge → Dino Montecurva
  213. Sunset People → Self
  214. Natural World (TV) → Narrator
  215. The Osterman Weekend → Lawrence Fassett
  216. King Lear → The Fool
  217. The Plague Dogs → Snitter (voice)
  218. Partners → Kerwin
  219. Night Crossing → Peter Strelzyk
  220. Paul McCartney - Take It Away → Self
  221. History of the World: Part I → Jesus - The Roman Empire
  222. The Elephant Man → John Merrick
  223. Heaven's Gate → Billy Irvine
  224. An Evening with Quentin Crisp → Host
  225. Alien → Kane
  226. Crime and Punishment (TV) → Rodion Raskolnikov
  227. The Lord of the Rings → Aragorn (voice)
  228. Midnight Express → Max
  229. Watership Down → Hazel (voice)
  230. The Shout → Anthony Fielding
  231. The Sunday Drama (TV) → Dave
  232. The Hollywood Greats (TV)
  233. The Disappearance → Atkinson
  234. Spectre → Mitri Cyon
  235. Three Dangerous Ladies → Lt. George Simmonds
  236. East of Elephant Rock → Nash
  237. I, Claudius (TV) → Caligula
  238. Stream Line → Chandler
  239. The Peddler → Alec Cassell
  240. Saturday Night Live (TV) → March Hare
  241. The Sweeney (TV) → Tony Grey
  242. The Naked Civil Servant → Quentin Crisp
  243. The Ghoul → Tom Rawlings
  244. NOVA (TV) → Narrator
  245. Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs → Malcolm Scrawdyke
  246. The Playboy of the Western World → Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)
  247. Wessex Tales (TV) → Joshua Harlborough
  248. The Pied Piper → Franz
  249. Great Performances (TV) → Narrator
  250. A Ghost Story for Christmas (TV) → James Parkin
  251. 10 Rillington Place → Timothy Evans
  252. Mr. Forbush and the Penguins → Richard Forbush
  253. Green Julia → Bob
  254. Play for Today (TV) → Alec Cassell
  255. Sinful Davey → Davey Haggart
  256. Before Winter Comes → Lieutenant Pilkington
  257. In Search of Gregory → Daniel
  258. ITV Playhouse (TV) → Guy Beresford
  259. The Sailor from Gibraltar → John
  260. A Man for All Seasons → Richard Rich
  261. Gideon's Way (TV) → Freddy Tisdale
  262. This Is My Street → Charlie
  263. The Wild and the Willing → Phil Corbett
  264. Drama 61-67 (TV) → Private Briggs
  265. Drama 61-67 (TV) → Tom
  266. Armchair Theatre (TV) → Joe
  267. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee

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