Умер британский актер Джон Хёрт, обладатель четырех премий BAFTA и лауреат «Золотого глобуса». Херту было 77 лет.

Одна из самых известных ролей Джона Хёрт — роль в фильме «Человек-слон» Дэвида Линча. В 1981 году он получил за нее премию BAFTA за лучшую мужскую роль. Другие премии ему вручили за роли в «Полуночном экспрессе», «Обнаженном служителе общества» и выдающийся вклад в британское кино.

Премию «Золотой глобус» Джон Хёрт получил за роль в «Полуночном экспрессе». За нее он также выдвигался на «Оскар».

Джон Хёрт играл в «1984», «Гарри Поттере», «Индиане Джонсе», «V — значит вендетта», «Выживут только любовники» и других фильмах. Последняя картина с участием актера «Тарзан. Легенда» вышла в 2016 году.

В 2015 году королева Великобритании Елизавета II посвятила Джона Херта в рыцари.

На dailymail написано, что он умер от рака (pancreatic cancer)

John Hurt was awarded a BAFTA in 2012 for outstanding British contribution to cinema.

John Hurt and his wife Anwen Rees-Myers

Hurt starred in sci-fi film “Snowpiercer” in 2013 alongside Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer

 2008 “The Oxford Murders.”

Родился 22 января  1940 в Chesterfield, England. Закончил St Martins School в Лондоне и выиграл стипендию для обучения в   Rada в 1960 и это стало его началом актерской карьеры.  Роль  Richard Rich в фильме A Man for All Seasons 1966 стала прорывом в карьере.

Playing the the wronged Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place, with Judy Geeson and Richard Attenborough, 1971

As Caligua, with Derek Jacobi as Claudius and George Baker as Tiberius, in the BBC series I, Claudius, 1976

John Hurt photographed by the Observer’s Jane Bown in 1977

As Max in Midnight Express, with Brad Davis as Billy Hayes, 1978

Hurt playing Kane in the ‘chestburster’ scene in Alien, 1979

Portraying John Merrick in The Elephant Man, 1980

Bob Champion and John Hurt with horses Aniece and Dinkie near Champion’s Wiltshire stables. Hurt played the jockey in the film Champions, in 1984

Tim Roth, Terence Stamp and Hurt in Stephen Frears 1984 crime thriller, The Hit

Nineteen Eighty-Four, made in 1984

John Hurt as Stephen Ward, Bridget Fonda as Mandy Rice-Davies and Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler in the 1989 film about the Profumo affair, Scandal

In Rob Roy, 1995

Penelope Cruz and John Hurt in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, 2001

John Hurt as the wand seller Mr Ollivander in 2001’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Playing Alan Clark in the Alan Clark Diaries with Jenny Agutter as Clark’s wife Jane, 2004

Doug Jones as Abe Sapien and Hurt as Trevor Bruttenholm in Guillermo del Toro’s 2004 movie Hellboy

John Hurt receiving his CBE, with his wife, Anwen Rees Myers, and sons, Nicholas and Alexander, at Buckingham Palace in 2004

V for Vendetta, 2005

Onstage in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the Barbican, 2006

Hurt as Old Man Peanut with Ian McShane as Meredith in the 2009 crime drama 44 Inch Chest

Helen Mirren as Ida and John Hurt as Phil Corkery in Brighton Rock, 2010

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011

Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt during the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, Day of the Doctor, 2013

Sir John Hurt after being awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle in July 2015

Hurt in his final role as The Priest with Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in the 2016 film Jackie, which was released in the US the month before his death

Only Lovers Left Alive directed by Jim Jarmusch, 2013