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Acting

John Hurt

Career: Active from 1962 to 2018, busiest in 2011 with 12 main titles.

Leading roles: 127
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Sailcloth
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 139 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Hurt Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.8, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.5, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 12
Historical Drama 12
Social Commentary 11
Psychological Thriller 9
Character-Driven 9
Political Intrigue 8
Psychological Drama 7
Psychological Tension 5
Class Conflict 5
Melancholy 4
Coming-of-Age 4
Moral Dilemma 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

241

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (War) (archive footage)

2010s

56 titles · average score 68

Jackie

75

as The Priest

Hercules

53

as Cotys

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

86

as The War Doctor

Snowpiercer

80

as Gilliam

Only Lovers Left Alive

78

as Christopher Marlowe

Human Planet

81

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Planet Dinosaur

80

TV show · as Narrator

The Confession

74

TV show · as Priest

Immortals

52

as Old Zeus

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

76

as Control

Melancholia

76

as Dexter

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie

51

as Carnak

2000s

51 titles · average score 61

44 Inch Chest

48

as Old Man Peanut

The Oxford Murders

34

as Arthur Seldom

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

64

as Professor Harold Oxley

V for Vendetta

74

as Adam Sutler

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

65

as Narrator (voice)

Shooting Dogs

78

as Christopher

The Skeleton Key

53

as Ben Devereaux

Hiroshima

74

as Narrator (voice)

Hellboy

72

as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm

Dogville

74

as Narrator (voice)

Owning Mahowny

72

as Victor Foss

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

45

as Dr. Iannis

1990s

40 titles · average score 57

All the Little Animals

53

as Mr. Summers

Love and Death on Long Island

74

as Giles De'Ath

Contact

71

as S. R. Hadden

Tender Loving Care

43

as Dr. Turner

Rob Roy

67

as John Graham

Wild Bill

42

as Charley Prince

Dead Man

71

as John Scholfield

Monolith

36

as Villano

King Ralph

37

as Graves

Frankenstein Unbound

47

as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)

The Field

59

as Bird' O'Donnell

Romeo.Juliet

72

as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)

1980s

44 titles · average score 64

Scandal

76

as Stephen Ward

The Storyteller

85

TV show · as The Storyteller

Aria

54

as The Actor

Vincent

73

as Vincent Van Gogh (voice)

The Black Cauldron

58

as The Horned King (voice)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

69

as Winston Smith

The Hit

73

as Braddock

The Osterman Weekend

47

as Lawrence Fassett

The Plague Dogs

75

as Snitter (voice)

Night Crossing

64

as Peter Strelzyk

The Elephant Man

85

as John Merrick

Heaven's Gate

61

as Billy Irvine

1970s

33 titles · average score 68

Alien

86

as Kane

Crime and Punishment

76

TV show · as Rodion Raskolnikov

Watership Down

75

as Hazel (voice)

The Shout

74

as Anthony Fielding

The Lord of the Rings

57

as Aragorn (voice)

Spectre

58

as Mitri Cyon

as Captain Simmonds

The Naked Civil Servant

72

as Quentin Crisp

The Ghoul

51

as Tom Rawlings

Saturday Night Live

69

TV show · as March Hare

10 Rillington Place

70

as Timothy Evans

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

58

as Richard Forbush

1960s

14 titles · average score 60

Sinful Davey

43

as Davey Haggart

In Search of Gregory

52

as Daniel

Before Winter Comes

50

as Lieutenant Pilkington

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Bob

The Sailor from Gibraltar

59

as John

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Guy Beresford

A Man for All Seasons

79

as Richard Rich

NET Playhouse

TV show · as Peter Heywood

Gideon's Way

75

TV show · as Freddy Tisdale

This Is My Street

62

as Charlie

The Wild and the Willing

58

as Phil Corbett

Drama 61-67

TV show · as Private Briggs / Tom

1950s

1 title · average score 68

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Joe