John Hurt (1940 - 2017)

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Sir John Hurt (Male)

Nationality: English

Born: 22 January 1940

Died: 25 January 2017

Actor for stage and screen. Hurt’s international reputation was built over five decades as a performer of suffering roles, notably John Merrick in The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980), Winston Smith in 1984 (Michael Radford, 1984) and Kane, the unfortunate officer in the science fiction film Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) who suffered the attachment of a face-hugger and the consequent iconic chest-bursting sequence. He was cast as Krapp in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s last Tape for the 2001 ‘Beckett on Film’ season. In 2013 he was cast as the ‘War Doctor’ in the long-running British Science-fiction TV series Doctor Who.

Training and Education

Art school

Saint Martin's School of Art   (Training & Education | Est. Unknown)

Hurt won a scholarship to attend Saint Martin’s in 1959

Drama school

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)   (Training & Education | Est. 1904)

62-64 Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6ED, England

Hurt won a scholarship to attend RADA in 1960

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Appears In

The Dwarfs (Stage Premiere: Arts Theatre) (1963)

Len (Age: late twenties, Male)

Len was based on Pinter's friend Mick Goldstein, who later wrote a response to The Dwarfs.

Performer

The Caretaker (Mermaid Theatre) (1972)

Mick (Age: late twenties, Male)

Aston's brother

Performer

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Linked Awards

CBE

2004

Knight Bachelor

2015

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