John Hurt

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Born: 1/22/1940

Biography: Considered one of Great Britain's most consistently brilliant players, John Hurt is at his best when playing victims forced to suffer mental, physical, or spiritual anguish. A small man with a slightly sinister countenance and a tenor voice that never completed the transitio …

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The Limits of Control [Movie] as Guitar

2009

44 Inch Chest [Movie]

2009

Outlanders [Movie] as King Rothgar

2008

Lecture 21 [Movie]

2008

Outlander [Movie] as King Rothgar

2008

New York, I Love You [Movie]

2008

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Outfest highlights

07/08/09 Writer-director Don Roos receives Outfest's 13th Annual Achievement Award. | Variety
How Terry Gilliam saved Ledger's final film

07/03/09 LONDON, England (CNN) -- Is there a filmmaker in the world with worse luck than Terry Gilliam? | CNN International
Champagne and Peanuts: Notes from Provincetown

07/01/09 Capping off Gay Pride Month, Stephen Holt attends the Provincetown International Film Festival, and shares his impressions. | Awards Daily
Olivia Wilde is Filming This Summer Too

06/30/09 A redemption tale centering on a man condemned to a mental hospital for committing murder. | House is Right
Mondo Extra - The Merlin Premiere

06/22/09 We pan up from Excalibur lying at the bottom of a lake to see Merlin's face, a knight on horseback, some knights fighting, then somebody turning into a mummified corpse (!), a creepy old lady, snakes striking, horrible gnawing monsters, and then Camelot. | Television Without Pity
Gruffalo to menace Christmas TV

06/22/09 Modern children's classic The Gruffalo is to menace TV screens this Christmas in a one-off all-star animation. | BBC Radio 1
John Hurt: The Proposition

06/21/09 This stranger serves no real purpose in the film, other than to deliver a lenghty monologue about Darwin's new theory of evolution. | MilkandCookies.com
Hercules Gets Medieval With NBC?s MERLIN!!

06/20/09 A decent and doubtlessly "Harry Potter"-inspired BBC series following the famous medieval wizard when he was a boy, "Merlin" stars "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" father figure Anthony Stewart Head as Arthur's pop, the sorcery-hating King Uther Pendragon, and "Potter" vet John Hurt as the voice of an all-knowing CGI dragon. | Ain't It Cool News
Roger Catlin: 'Virtuality' Goes Nowhere; 'Merlin' Beats Reality

06/20/09 Another neat conceit for the show is that the flight is entirely funded by a corporation making money from the fact that the crew's adventures are being turned into a reality show for consumption back home. | The Hartford Courant - Hartford CT
New 'Merlin' youthful, dark

06/20/09 Of course, there has been an outcry from purists, said British actor Anthony Head, who plays King Uther Pendragon in the TV series Merlin. | JAM! Showbiz
Kristian Matsson: The Tallest Man in Folk?

06/19/09 Vanderslice is a talented musician who, with the help of other talented musicians, performed a repertoire rich with rollicking, smartly arranged pop-rock songs. | Washington City Paper - Black Plastic Bag
Lack of focus causes director to lose 'Control'

06/18/09 "The Limits of Control," reveals the limits of director Jim Jarmusch, whose movies tend to be hip meditations on male soloism. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA
Merlin

06/17/09 The Arthurian legend has been retold so frequently (if seldom well) that refreshed permutations are inevitable -- the latest being "Merlin," an imported fantasy the Brits quaintly call a "tea time" show. | Variety
�lex de la Iglesia Puzzles Over "The Oxford Murders"

06/16/09 Thanks to the questionable state of "Oxford"'s one-time American distributor ThinkFilm, the screening was one of few opportunities to see the Elijah Wood-John Hurt thriller on a U.S. big screen -- according to de la Iglesia, the film will be going direct to DVD. And while reaction from parts of the world where the film did get a theatrical release was mixed, "The Oxford Murders" is an undeniable reaffirmation of de la Iglesia's status as one of the world's most inventive filmmakers, both visually (exemplified by a particularly breathtaking tracking shot of the streets of London) and as a storyteller (demonstrated by his application of philosophy to Guillermo Mart�nez's literally by-the-numbers tale of a professor and a student who go after a serial killer guided by mathematics). | Independent Film Channel (IFC)
Frameline favorites: Best in LGBT film

06/13/09 Price and longtime Festival Director Jennifer Morris have rounded up 220 films for this year's festival including 80 features and 139 short films from 32 countries. | San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA
TV Movies for the week of June 7

06/06/09 Three private detectives work under cover to retrieve two rings that contain cryptic information. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 5/19

05/19/09 Geeks travel cross country to steal a movie so their friend can see it before he dies of cancer. | Cinematical.com
Capone's Art-House Round-Up with Jamusch's THE LIMITS OF CONTROL!!! Plus the urban myth NEXT DAY AIR!!!

05/07/09 No one will every accuse filmmaker Jim Jarmusch of being one of the world's most accessible directors, but even so some of his more recent work (including the remarkable BROKEN FLOWERS, the exceedingly funny COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, and GHOST DOG) have been fairly easy to move along with and slip into their introspective groove. | Ain't It Cool News
2009 Summer Movie Preview: May

05/01/09 The summer begins well, with promising action, animation, comedy, drama, science-fiction, and thrills in high profile releases and several limited releases as Hollywood hopes to continue with another record-setting box office pace for the year. | Blogcritics.org Video
Review: The Limits of Control

05/01/09 A man with no name sits down at an outdoor cafe and orders two espressos in separate cups. | Cinematical.com

Year
Result
Award
Movie

1980
Nominated
British Academy of Film and Television
Best Actor
The Elephant Man

1980
Won
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
Best Actor
The Elephant Man

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