John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940 in Shirebrook near Chesterfield Derbyshire. He is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, triple BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actor.

Hurt's first film was 1962's The Wild and the Willing, but his first major role was as Richard Rich in 1966's A Man for All Seasons.

He also starred in The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Alien (1979) and in Mike Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).

He won a British Academy Best Supporting Actor award for his role in Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978) and a Best Actor award for his unsentimental performance in the title role of David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980).

Other his roles include Second Best (1993), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), Rob Roy (1995), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and V for Vendetta (2005).

His last credits include The Oxford Murders (2008) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

Filmography

• Angel Makers (2008)
• 44 Inch Chest (2009)
• An Englishman in New York (2008) (TV)
• No One Gets Off in This Town (2008)
• The Limits of Control (2009)
• Outlander (2008)
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
• New York, I Love You (2008)
• Recount (2008) (TV)
• Lezione 21 (2008)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• The Oxford Murders (2008)
• "Masters of Science Fiction" (1 episode, 2007)
• Boxes (2007)
• Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007) (TV) (voice)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) (voice)
• "The Alan Clark Diaries" (2 episodes, 2006)
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• Hiroshima (2005) (TV) (voice)
• The Skeleton Key (2005)
• Manderlay (2005) (voice)
• Shooting Dogs (2005)
• The Proposition (2005)
• Valiant (2005) (voice)
• Short Order (2005)
• Pride (2004) (TV) (voice)
• Hellboy (2004)
• Dogville (2003) (voice)
• Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill (2003)
• Owning Mahowny (2003)
• Bait (2002) (TV)
• Crime and Punishment (2002)
• Miranda (2002)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
• Tabloid (2001)
• Lost Souls (2000)
• Krapp's Last Tape (2000) (TV)
• The Tigger Movie (2000) (voice)
• If... Dog... Rabbit... (1999)
• You're Dead... (1999)
• Château des singes, Le (1999)
• New Blood (1999)
• All the Little Animals (1998)
• Night Train (1998)
• "Saturday Night Live" (1 episode, 1998)
• The Climb (1998)
• The Commissioner (1998)
• Bandyta (1997)
• Contact (1997)
• Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
• Tender Loving Care (1997) (V)
• Wild Bill (1995)
• Dead Man (1995)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• Prisoners in Time (1995) (TV)
• Two Nudes Bathing (1995)
• Saigon Baby (1995)
• "Picture Windows" (1994) TV series
• Second Best (1994)
• Thumbelina (1994) (voice)
• Monolith (1993)
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
• Oeil qui ment, L' (1993)
• Rabbit Ears: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (1993) (V)
• Kölcsönkapott idö (1993)
• Great Moments in Aviation (1993) (TV)
• Lapse of Memory (1992)
• Six Characters in Search of an Author (1992) (TV)
• King Ralph (1991)
• I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991)
• Journey to Knock (1991) (TV)
• "Red Fox" (1991) (mini) TV mini-series
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
• The Field (1990)
• Windprints (1990)
• The Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing (1990) (TV)
• Romeo-Juliet (1990)
• Little Sweetheart (1989)
• "The Jim Henson Hour" (1989) TV series
• Scandal (1989)
• "The Storyteller" (8 episodes, 1988)
• Deadline (1988) (TV)
• Nuit Bengali, La (1988)
• Vincent (1987) (voice)
• Aria (1987)
• Spaceballs (1987)
• From the Hip (1987)
• White Mischief (1987)
• Rocinante (1987)
• The Hunting of the Snark (1987)
• Jake Speed (1986)
• The Black Cauldron (1985) (voice)
• After Darkness (1985)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
• The Hit (1984)
• Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
• Champions (1984)
• The Osterman Weekend (1983)
• King Lear (1983) (TV)
• The Plague Dogs (1982) (voice)
• Partners (1982)
• History of the World: Part I (1981)
• Night Crossing (1981)
• Heaven's Gate (1980)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Alien (1979)
• "Crime and Punishment" (1979) (mini) TV mini-series
• The Lord of the Rings (1978) (voice)
• Midnight Express (1978)
• The Shout (1978)
• Watership Down (1978) (voice)
• The Disappearance (1977)
• Spectre (1977) (TV)
• Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)
• East of Elephant Rock (1977)
• "The Sweeney" (1 episode, 1976)
• "I, Claudius" (1976) (mini) TV mini-series
• "Play for Today" (1 episode, 1976)
• The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (TV)
• Linea del fiume, La (1975)
• The Ghoul (1975)
• Little Malcolm (1974)
• The Playboy of the Western World (1974) (TV)
• "Wessex Tales" (1 episode, 1973)
• A Tragedy of Two Ambitions (1973) (TV)
• The Pied Piper (1972)
• 10 Rillington Place (1971)
• Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
• In Search of Gregory (1969)
• Before Winter Comes (1969)
• Sinful Davey (1969)
• The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• "Gideon's Way" (1 episode, 1965)
• "ITV Play of the Week" (1 episode, 1964)
• "First Night" (1 episode, 1963)
• This Is My Street (1963)
• The Wild and the Willing (1962)
• "Z Cars" (1 episode, 1962)
• "Drama 60-67" (1 episode, 1961)

Awards

• London Film Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award 1999
• CableACE Award Best Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series "Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing" 1995
• Evening Standard Award Best Actor "1984" 1984
• BAFTA Award Best Actor "The Elephant Man" 1980
• BAFTA Award Best Supporting Actor "Midnight Express" 1978
• Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor "Midnight Express" 1978
• BAFTA Award Best Television Actor "The Naked Civil Servant" 1975
• International Emmy Best Actor "The Naked Civil Servant" 1975
• Variety Club Award Most Promising Newcomer "The Dwarfs" 1963