John Hurt Highlights

  • 2008: Appeared in Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" as Harold Oxley
  • 2006: Cast as the villainous Bishop Lilliman in the Wachowski brothers' "V for Vendetta"
  • 2005: Starred opposite Kate Hudson in the supernatural thriller, "Skeleton Key"
  • 2004: Reprised role of Mr. Ollivander for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
  • 2004: Cast as Professor Bruttenholm in the feature adaption of the popular comic book series, "Hellboy"
  • 2003: Re-teamed with director Richard Kwietniowski for "Owning Mahowny"
  • 2001: Played Mr. Ollivander, the wand-maker, in the first Harry Potter film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
  • 2000: Played a priest in Janusz Kiminski's feature directorial debut, "Lost Souls"
  • 2000: Acted in a film version of "Krapp's Last Tape"
  • 1998: Starred opposite Christian Bale in Jeremy Thomas' directorial debut, "All the Little Animals"
  • 1997: Narrated The Discovery Channel's "True Story of the Elephant Man"
  • 1997: Earned acclaim for his performance in Richard Kwietniowski's feature directorial debut, "Love and Death on Long Island"
  • 1995: Cast in the John Boorman directed "Two Nudes Bathing" segment of Showtime's "Picture Windows"
  • 1995: Re-teamed with Caton-Jones for "Rob Roy"
  • 1995: Starred with Helen Mirren in an award-winning West End production of Turgenev's "A Month in the Country"
  • 1990: Appeared as himself in the documentary feature, "Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp in New York"
  • 1989: Portrayed the Storyteller on NBC variety anthology summer series, "The Jim Henson Hour"
  • 1989: Offered an excellent turn as Dr. Stephen Ward, a sexual provocateur in Michael Caton-Jones' directorial debut, "Scandal"
  • 1987: Re-teamed with director Mel Brooks for the disappointing "Star Wars" spoof, "Spaceballs"
  • 1987: Played the title role of the narrator in the NBC children's fantasy series, "The Storyteller"
  • 1987: Provided the voice of the artist for the documentary, "Vincent - The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh"
  • 1984: Played the stubbornly nonconformist Winston Smith in Michael Radford's adaptation of the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
  • 1984: Acted the part of the brooding assassin in Stephen Frears' sinister "The Hit"
  • 1983: Appeared in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but hugely successful final film, "The Osterman Weekend"
  • 1982: Starred as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King in BBC' "King Lear"
  • 1981: Played Jesus in Mel Brooks' "History of the World, Part I"
  • 1980: Acted in Michael Cimino's colossal bomb, "Heaven's Gate" as the lost, embittered alcoholic Billy Irvine
  • 1980: Portrayed the title character in David Lynch's adaption of the Joseph Merrick biography "The Elephant Man"; garnered a Best Actor Academy Award nomination
  • 1979: Essayed the role of Kane, the memorable first victim of the title creature in Ridley Scott's "Alien"
  • 1978: First American feature, voiced Aragorn in Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings"
  • 1978: Earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as a drugged-out hippie in Alan Parker's "Midnight Express"
  • 1977: First American TV-movie, "Spectre" (NBC)
  • 1976: Offered a brilliant turn as Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius"
  • 1976: First non-British film, the Italian-made "La Linea del Fiume/Stream Line"
  • 1975: Shot to fame as Quentin Crisp in the TV play, "The Naked Civil Servant"
  • 1974: Portrayed Tristran Tzara in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties"
  • 1973: Essayed the role of Ben in Pinter's London revival of "The Dumb Waiter"
  • 1972: Performed in Harold Pinter's London stage revival of "The Caretaker"
  • 1970: Portrayed the inarticulate Timothy Evans in "10 Rillington Place"
  • 1969: Played the title role of a 19th-century Scottish highwayman in John Huston's uninspired "Sinful Davey"
  • 1966: Portrayed Richard Rich in the film version of "A Man for All Seasons"
  • 1963: Won the Variety Club Award as Most Promising Newcomer for his stage performance in "The Dwarfs"; first collaboration with playwright Harold Pinter
  • 1962: Film acting debut, "The Wild and the Willing"; directed and produced by Ralph Thomas
  • 1962: Professional stage debut in the London production, "Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger"
  • 1961: Made TV debut in "Mourtzanos"
  • 1953: Stage debut in a school production of "The Bluebird"
  • Worked as a stage hand with Lincoln Repertory

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