
John Hurt
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 performan...
Known For
Filmography

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Fonda for President
2025
as Self (archive footage)

Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (War) (archive footage)

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Ayamé
2018
as Narrator (voice)

Damascus Cover
2017
as Miki

The Journey
2017
as Harry Patterson

That Good Night
2017
as Ralph

My Name Is Lenny
2017
as Leslie Salmon

Jackie
2016
as The Priest

ChickLit
2016
as Francis Bonar
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
2016
as Siegfried Sassoon

The Final Reel
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Back to Utopia
2016
as Professor Peter Panludic (voice)

Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
2015
as Narator

The Alchemist's Letter
2015
as The Alchemist (voice)

A.K.A Nadia
2015
as 347

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
2015
as Sailor John (voice)

Break
2015
as Jack

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)

The Last Panthers
2015
as Tom

Hercules
2014
as Cotys

Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
2014
as Narrator

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
as Self

Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
as Kingsley Bedford

Snowpiercer
2013
as Gilliam

Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
as Christopher Marlowe

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
2013
as Narrator (voice)

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013
as The War Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The War Doctor

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The War Doctor

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
as Self / Stephen Ward

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as The War Doctor (archive voice)

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
2013
as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
2012
as Narrator (voice)

Sightseers
2012
as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Snipist
2012
as The Ministry

More Than Honey
2012
as Narrator (english voice)

Labyrinth
2012
as Audric Baillard

The Hollow Crown
2012
as The Chorus

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Ollivander

Melancholia
2011
as Dexter

Immortals
2011
as Old Zeus

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as Control

The Gruffalo's Child
2011
as The Owl (voice)

Sailcloth
2011
as Man

The Confession
2011
as Priest

On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
2011
as Professor Orit

The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
2011
as Narrator

In Love with Alma Cogan
2011
as MC

Human Planet
2011
as Narrator (voice)

The Confession
2011
as Priest

Planet Dinosaur
2011
as Narrator

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Ollivander

Brighton Rock
2010
as Phil Corkery

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
2010
as Carnak

Lou
2010
as Doyle

Whistle and I'll Come to You
2010
as James Parkin

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
as Self

Love at First Sight
2010
as Arthur

The Limits of Control
2009
as Guitar

The Gruffalo
2009
as Owl (voice)

An Englishman in New York
2009
as Quentin Crisp

44 Inch Chest
2009
as Old Man Peanut

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
Remembrance
2009
as Bellhop

Ballybrando
2009
as Self

Centenary: The BP Story
2009
as Narrator (voice)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
as Professor Harold Oxley

Outlander
2008
as Rothgar

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008
as Trevor Bruttenholm

The Oxford Murders
2008
as Arthur Seldom

Recount
2008
as Warren Christopher

Lecture 21
2008
as Mondrian Kilroy

New York, I Love You
2008
as Bellhop

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008

Merlin
2008
as Kilgharrah (voice)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
2007
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)

Boxes
2007
as Fanny's father

Interview with John Hurt
2007
as Self

Masters of Science Fiction
2007
as Samswope

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
as Narrator (voice)

V for Vendetta
2006
as Adam Sutler

Shooting Dogs
2006
as Christopher

The Plot Against Harold Wilson
2006
as Narrator (voice)

Whaledreamers
2006
as Self

'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
2006
as Adam Sutler

Manderlay
2005
as Narrator (voice)

The Skeleton Key
2005
as Ben Devereaux

Valiant
2005
as Felix (voice)

Once Upon a Halloween
2005
as The Horned King (voice) (archive sound)

The Proposition
2005
as Jellon Lamb

Hiroshima
2005
as Narrator (voice)

Short Order
2005

Doctor Who
2005
as The Doctor
Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction
2005
as Narrator

A Ghost Story for Christmas
2005
as James Parkin

Hellboy
2004
as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
2004
as Self

Shadowing the Third Man
2004
as Narrator (voice)

Pride
2004
as Harry (voice)

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self

The Alan Clark Diaries
2004
as Alan Clark

Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self

Owning Mahowny
2003
as Victor Foss

The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2003
as Man from Maybury Hill

Dogville
2003
as Narrator (voice)

The Alien Saga
2002
as Narrator (voice)

Miranda
2002
as Christian

Crime and Punishment
2002
as Porfiry, chief investigator

Bait
2002
as Jack Blake

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
2002
as Self
HypaSpace
2002
as Self

Edge of the Universe
2002
as Narrator (voice)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Mr. Ollivander

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Dr. Iannis

Shaolin: Wheel of Life
2001
as Narrator (voice)

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
2001
as Narrator (voice)

Tabloid
2001
as Vince

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001
as Self

Krapp's Last Tape
2000
as Krapp

Lost Souls
2000
as Father Lareaux

The Tigger Movie
2000
as Narrator (voice)

You're Dead...
1999
as Maitland

All the Little Animals
1999
as Mr. Summers

New Blood
1999
as Alan White

If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
as Sean Cooper

Watership Down
1999
as General Woundwort (voice)

The Commissioner
1998
as James morton

Love and Death on Long Island
1998
as Giles De'Ath

The Climb
1998
as Chuck Langer

Night Train
1998
as Michael Poole

Parkinson
1998
as Self

Brute
1997
as Babits

Contact
1997
as S. R. Hadden

Tender Loving Care
1996
as Dr. Turner

Dead Man
1995
as John Scholfield

Rob Roy
1995
as John Graham

Wild Bill
1995
as Charley Prince
On Jupiter
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Saigon Baby
1995
as Jack Lee

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
1995
as Marquis de Prey

Picture Windows
1995
as Marquis de Prey

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as The Countess

Second Best
1994
as Uncle Turpin

Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Rex Goodyear

Thumbelina
1994
as Mr. Mole (voice)

The World of Jim Henson
1994
as The Storyteller (archive footage)

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
1994
as Narrator (voice)

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Monolith
1993
as Villano

GMTV
1993
as Self

Dark at Noon
1992
as Anthony / Le Marquis

Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Father

King Ralph
1991
as Lord Percival Graves

Red Fox
1991
as Archie Carpenter
Journey to Knock
1991
as Alfred

I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991
as Boorman's Alter Ego

Lapse of Memory
1991
as Conrad Farmer

Performance
1991
as The Father

Frankenstein Unbound
1990
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)

The Field
1990
as Bird' O'Donnell

Windprints
1990
as Charles Rutherford

Resident Alien
1990
as Self - Actor

Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as Chris Mullin

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990
as Self

Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
1990
as Narrator (voice)

Romeo.Juliet
1990
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)

Scandal
1989
as Stephen Ward

Poison Candy
1989
as Robert Burger

David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)

The Jim Henson Hour
1989

Deadline
1988
as Granville Jones

The Bengali Night
1988
as Lucien Metz

The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: Fearnot
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The Luck Child
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller: The True Bride
1988
as The Storyteller

The Storyteller
1988
as The Storyteller

Spaceballs
1987
as John Hurt

From the Hip
1987
as Douglas Benoit

Aria
1987
as The Actor

White Mischief
1987
as Gilbert Colville
The Hunting of the Snark
1987
as The Narrator (voice)

Vincent
1987
as (voice)

Iceberg
1987
as Narrator (voice)

Monolith
1987
as Narrator (voice)
Frightmares
1987

Jake Speed
1986
as Syd
Rocinante
1986
as Bill

Thames Film
1986

After Darkness
1985
as Peter Hunningford

The Black Cauldron
1985
as The Horned King (voice)

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
as Narrator (voice)

Live Aid
1985
as Self

Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
as Winston Smith

The Hit
1984
as Braddock

Champions
1984
as Bob Champion

Success Is the Best Revenge
1984
as Dino Montecurva

Sunset People
1984
as Self

The Osterman Weekend
1983
as Lawrence Fassett

King Lear
1983
as The Fool

Natural World
1983
as Narrator

The Plague Dogs
1982
as Snitter (voice)

Partners
1982
as Kerwin

Night Crossing
1982
as Peter Strelzyk
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982
as Self

History of the World: Part I
1981
as Jesus - The Roman Empire

The Elephant Man
1980
as John Merrick

Heaven's Gate
1980
as Billy Irvine
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
1980
as Host

Alien
1979
as Kane

Crime and Punishment
1979
as Rodion Raskolnikov

The Lord of the Rings
1978
as Aragorn (voice)

Watership Down
1978
as Hazel (voice)

Midnight Express
1978
as Max

The Shout
1978
as Anthony Fielding

East of Elephant Rock
1977
as Nash

The Disappearance
1977
as Atkinson

Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
as Lt. George Simmonds

Spectre
1977
as Mitri Cyon

The Hollywood Greats
1977

Stream Line
1976
as Chandler

The Peddler
1976
as Alec Cassell

I, Claudius
1976
as Caligula

The Naked Civil Servant
1975
as Quentin Crisp

The Ghoul
1975
as Tom Rawlings

The Sweeney
1975
as Tony Grey

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
as Malcolm Scrawdyke
The Playboy of the Western World
1974
as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)

NOVA
1974
as Narrator

Wessex Tales
1973
as Joshua Harlborough

The Pied Piper
1972
as Franz

10 Rillington Place
1971
as Timothy Evans

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
as Richard Forbush
Green Julia
1971
as Bob

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as James Parkin

Great Performances
1971
as Narrator

Play for Today
1970
as Alec Cassell

Sinful Davey
1969
as Davey Haggart

Before Winter Comes
1969
as Lieutenant Pilkington

In Search of Gregory
1969
as Daniel

The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
as John

A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Richard Rich

Gideon's Way
1965
as Freddy Tisdale

This Is My Street
1964
as Charlie

The Wild and the Willing
1962
as Phil Corbett
Drama 61-67
1961
as Private Briggs
Drama 61-67
1961
as Tom

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Joe

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee