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Born
in Chesterfield,
Derbyshire, John Hurt
studied art at the St.
Martin's School for Art,
but turned to the stage
in 1962. He performed
with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, and
is a member of the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art
(RADA).
John
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.
However, it was his
portrayal of the
outrageous Quentin Crisp
in the 1975 TV play, The
Naked Civil Servant,
that shot him to fame,
earning the British
Academy Television Award
for Best Actor in the
process. The following
year, Hurt gave a
memorable performance as
the emperor Caligula in
the major BBC drama
serial, I, Claudius. He
subsequently developed a
successful film career,
with his best known
roles including the
memorable first victim
of the title creature in
the film Alien and as
"John" Merrick in the
Joseph Merrick biography
The Elephant
Man.
John
Hurt, who played the
character of Winston
Smith in the 1984
adaptation of the novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
assumed the role of a
Big Brother-esque leader
of a fascist Great
Britain in the 2006 film
V for Vendetta, a movie
which draws many
parallels to the world
of Nineteen
Eighty-Four.
John
Hurt was made a
Commander of the The
Most Excellent Order of
the British Empire (CBE)
in June 2004.
Websites:
John
Hurt
- Filmography, awards,
biography and
more.
News:
John
Hurt Defends Rwanda
Genocide
Film
01 April 2006
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