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John Hurt

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Filmography

V for Vendetta

2005
as Chancellor Adam Sutler

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011
as Garrick Ollivander

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001
as Garrick Ollivander

Alien

1979
as Gilbert Ward Kane

Merlin

2008
as Kilgharrah

Snowpiercer

2013
as Gilliam

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2008
as Harold Oxley

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010
as Garrick Ollivander

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006
as Narrator (voice)

Hellboy

2004
as Prof. Bruttenholm

Jackie

2016
as The Priest

1984

1984
as Winston Smith

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013
as Marlowe

Hercules

2014
as Cotys

Melancholia

2011
as Dexter

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

2008
as Trevor Bruttenholm

The Black Cauldron

1985
as The Horned King (voice)

Dogville

2003
as Narrator (voice)

Immortals

2011
as Old Zeus

The Elephant Man

1980
as John Merrick

Contact

1997
as S. R. Hadden

Spaceballs

1987
as Kane

The Lord of the Rings

1978
as Aragorn (voice)

The Tigger Movie

2000
as Narrator

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

2010
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)

Midnight Express

1978
as Max

The Skeleton Key

2005
as Ben Devereaux

Thumbelina

1994
as Mr. Mole (voice)

Valiant

2005
as Felix (voice)

The Hollow Crown

2012
as The Chorus

The Last Panthers

2015
as Tom

After Darkness

1985
as Peter Hunningford

The Naked Civil Servant

1975
as Quentin Crisp

Labyrinth

2012
as Audric Baillard

Crime and Punishment

2002
as Porfiry, chief investigator

Second Best

1994
as Uncle Turpin

Night Train

1998
as Michael Poole

All the Little Animals

1999
as Mr. Summers

The Oxford Murders

2008
as Arthur Seldom

Rocinante

1986
as Bill

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

2014
as Himself

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

1985
as Narrator

The Plot Against Harold Wilson

2006
as John Hurt

Krapp's Last Tape

2000
as Krapp

Lecture 21

2008

Ballybrando

2009
as John Hurt

The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets

2016
as Older Sassoon

Watership Down

1999

Dark at Noon

1992

The Ghoul

1975
as Tom Rawlings

Spectre

1977
as Mitri Cyon

An Englishman in New York

2009
as Quentin Crisp

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

1971
as Richard Forbush

ChickLit

2016
as Francis Bonar

Owning Mahowny

2003
as Victor Foss

Two Nudes Bathing

1995
as Marquis de Prey

From the Hip

1987
as Douglas Benoit

Jayne Mansfield's Car

2013
as Kingsley Bedford

Scandal

1989
as Stephen Ward

Before Winter Comes

1969
as Lieutenant Pilkington

Damascus Cover

2018
as Miki

Charlie Countryman

2013
as Narrator

This Is My Street

1964
as Charlie

The Limits of Control

2009
as Guitar

Little Sweetheart

1989
as Robert Burger

The Disappearance

1977

Six Characters in Search of An Author

1992
as The Father

Human Planet

2011
as The Narrator

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

2001
as John Hurt

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill

2003
as Man from Maybury Hill

La linea del fiume

1976
as Chandler

The Proposition

2005
as Jellon Lamb

Shadowing the Third Man

2004
as Narrator

I, Claudius

1976
as Caligula

My Name Is Lenny

2017
as Leslie Salmon

The Journey

2017
as Harry Patterson

Tabloid

2001
as Vince

History of the World: Part I

1981
as Jesus - The Roman Empire

Great Moments in Aviation

1994
as Rex Goodyear

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003
as John Hurt

Outlander

2008
as Rothgar

Boxes

2007
as Le père de Fanny

The Climb

1998
as Chuck Langer

AIDS: Iceberg

1987

The Pied Piper

1972
as Franz

Planet Dinosaur

2011
as Narrator

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

1974
as Malcolm Scrawdyke

Night Crossing

1982
as Peter Strelzyk

Bandyta

1997
as Babits

The Field

1990
as Bird' O'Donnell

Sailcloth

2011
as Man

Watership Down

1978
as Hazel (voice)

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

2004
as John Hurt

44 Inch Chest

2009
as Old Man Peanut

Wild Bill

1995
as Charley Prince

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict

2013
as Narrator

The Final Reel

2016
as Narrator

Crime and Punishment (1979)

1979
as Raskolnikov

Short Order

2005
as Felix

Heaven's Gate

1980
as Billy Irvine

The Confession

2011
as Priest

The Osterman Weekend

1983
as Lawrence Fassett

The Wild and the Willing

1962
as Phil Corbett

The Commissioner

1998
as James morton

Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith

2013
as War Doctor

In Search of Gregory

1969
as Daniel

Success Is the Best Revenge

1984

The Beast Within: Making 'Alien'

2003
as Himself

Jim Henson's The Storyteller

1988
as The Storyteller

That Good Night

2018
as Ralph

Champions

1984
as Bob Champion

The Confession

2011
as Priest

Live Aid

1985

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie

2010
as Carnak

New Blood

2000

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1988
as Khufu / Second French Explorer

The Shout

1978
as Anthony Fielding

Love at First Sight

2010
as Arthur

A.K.A Nadia

2015
as 347

Dead Man

1995
as John Scholfield

The Gruffalo

2009
as Owl (voice)

White Mischief

1987
as Gilbert Colville

The Hunting of the Snark

1987
as The Narrator

The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past

2003
as John Hurt

Whistle and I'll Come to You

2010
as James Parkin

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

1994
as Storyteller

Manderlay

2005
as Narrator (Voice)

The Snipist

2012
as The Ministry

10 Rillington Place

1971
as Timothy Evans

Shaolin: Wheel of Life

2001
as Narrator

Sinful Davey

1969
as Davey Haggart

East of Elephant Rock

1977
as Nash

Universe (1999)

1999
as Narrator

Love and Death on Long Island

1997
as Giles De'Ath

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990
as Chris Mullin

Saigon Baby

1995
as Jack Lee

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

2001
as Narrator

Hiroshima

2005
as Narrator (voice)

Lou

2010
as Doyle

The Gruffalo's Child

2011
as The Owl (voice)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

1994
as The Countess

Rob Roy

1995
as John Graham (Marquis of Montrose)

You're Dead...

1999
as Maitland

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1967

Romeo.Juliet

1990
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio

Aria

1987
as The Actor

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

2001
as Dr. Iannis

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011
as Control

The 'Alien' Saga

2002
as Narrator (voice)

King Ralph

1991
as Lord Percival Graves

Resident Alien

1990
as Himself

Jake Speed

1986
as Syd

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers

2012
as Narrator (voice)

In Love with Alma Cogan

2011
as MC

Journey to Knock

1991
as Alfred

Brighton Rock

2010
as Phil Corkery

The Alan Clark Diaries

2004

Lost Souls

2000
as Father Lareaux

Frankenstein Unbound

1990
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator

The Jim Henson Hour

1989
as Storyteller

New York, I Love You

2008
as Bellhop (segment "Shekhar Kapur")

Thames Film

1987
as Narrator #2

Sightseers

2012
as Jerusalem Narrator

Miranda

2002
as Christian

Windprints

1990
as Charles Rutherford

Shooting Dogs

2006
as Christopher

The Plague Dogs

1982
as Snitter (voice)

I Dreamt I Woke Up

1991
as Boorman's Alter Ego

Muse of Fire

2013
as Himself

Partners

1982
as Kerwin

If... Dog... Rabbit

1999
as Sean Cooper

Three Dangerous Ladies

1977
as Lt. Simmonds (segment "The Island")

Vincent

1987
as (voice)

Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years

2007
as John Hurt

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes

2011
as Professor Orit

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron

2007
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm

A Man for All Seasons

1966
as Richard Rich

Recount

2008
as Warren Christopher

King Lear

1983
as The Fool

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie

2015
as Sailor John

The Hit

1984
as Braddock

The Alien Legacy

1999
as John Hurt

The Alchemist's Letter

2015
as The Alchemist

Lapse of Memory

1991
as Conrad Farmer

Pride

2004
as Harry (voice)

An Evening with Quentin Crisp

1980
as John Hurt

Monolith

1993
as Villano

Host

Episode Human Planet
Oceans - Into the Blue 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Deserts - Life in the Furnace 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Arctic - Life in the Deep Freeze 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Jungles - People of the Trees 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Mountains - Life in Thin Air 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Grasslands - The Roots of Power 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Rivers - Friend and Foe 		2011
Episode Human Planet
Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle 		2011
Episode Equinox
Black Holes 		1997

Guest Star

Episode NOVA
Island of the Spirits 		1999
Episode A Ghost Story For Christmas
Whistle and I'll Come to You 		2010
Episode Merlin
Lancelot 		2008
Episode The Sweeney
Tomorrow Man 		1976
Episode Universe (1999)
Big Bang 		1999
Episode Universe (1999)
Stars 		1999
Episode Universe (1999)
Planets 		1999
Episode Revealed
Who Killed Tutankhamun? 		2002
Episode Universe (1999)
Alien Life 		1999
Episode ITV Drama
The Naked Civil Servant 		1975
Episode BBC Drama
Whistle and I'll Come to You 		2010
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
The Name of the Doctor 		2013
Episode Natural World
Islands in the African Sky 		1994
Episode Masters of Science Fiction
The Discarded 		2007
Episode Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
John Hurt, Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Nigel Marven, Radiohead. 		2008
Episode Playhouse Presents
The Snipist 		2012
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
The Night of the Doctor 		2013
Episode Natural World
Hokkaido: Garden of the Gods 		1999
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
The Day of the Doctor 		2013