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John Hurt

May 2024

  • Back in the Tardis!

    The greatest Doctor Who – ranked!

    Tom Baker’s scarf! Jodie Whittaker’s cupboard! David Tennant’s gifs! As Ncuti Gatwa picks up his sonic screwdriver for the new series of Doctor Who, we rate every two-hearted Time Lord so far

May 2023

  • Dexter Fletcher

    The reader interview
    Dexter Fletcher: ‘I sat on Diana Dors’s knee and she said: “Aren’t you lovely!”’

    The actor and director on getting shouted at by Ken Russell, keeping it real for Elton John and when Jodie Foster made a moustache out of his hair

February 2021

  • 2008, INDIANA JONES 4<br>HARRISON FORD &amp; SHIA LABEOUF Film 'INDIANA JONES 4 : INDIANA JONES &amp; THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL' (2008) Directed By STEVEN SPIELBERG 21 May 2008 SSP61981 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT PICTURES **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To PARAMOUNT PICTURES is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use.

    Hear me out
    Hear me out: why Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't a bad movie

    The latest in our series of writers defending maligned films is a reappraisal for the fun fourth Indiana Jones adventure

March 2020

  • 1967, POINT BLANK<br>ANGIE DICKINSON &amp; LEE MARVIN Character(s): Chris &amp; Walker Film ‘POINT BLANK’ (1967) Directed By JOHN BOORMAN 30 August 1967 CT1947 Allstar/MGM **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Conclusions by John Boorman review – film gossip and nostalgia

  • Freddie Jones and John Hurt

    The Elephant Man review – David Lynch's tragic tale of compassion

March 2019

  • The alien foetus erupts from the stomach of the unfortunate Kane, played by John Hurt, in Alien.

    Dr Alien, PhD: the horror classic that academia loves

    In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the sci-film inspires an industry of papers, talks and research
  • The horror … Rami Malek in Until Dawn.

    10 of the strangest star cameos in video games

    Rami Malek’s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty … improbable roles for A-listers
  • Quentin Crisp.

    From the Guardian archive
    The view from Quentin Crisp's New York – archive, 1998

    6 March 1998 Crisp writes about writes about his adoptive city, movies and the films of John Hurt

August 2018

  • Damascus Cover - film still

    Damascus Cover review – stolid but muddled spy thriller

    John Hurt’s final screen role is a saving grace in this film, which otherwise lacks action or mystery

May 2018

  • That Good Night - film still

    That Good Night review – a workmanlike swansong for John Hurt

    Eric Styles’s film fails to match its star’s performance as a spiteful dying writer
  • That Good Night - film still

    That Good Night review – John Hurt shines in final lead role

    Sadly, he’s the best thing in this over-sentimental drama about a gruff writer’s final days in picture-perfect Portugal
  • ‘His gregarious manner made time on and off set more pleasurable for everyone’ … John Hurt in That Good Night.

    Film blog
    John Hurt, by his final director: 'Impish, unsentimental – and as generous as Julie Andrews'

    In Hurt’s last film, That Good Night, he played a screenwriter with a terminal illness. Here, director Eric Styles recalls the actor’s good humour despite his own diagnosis

December 2017

  • John Hurt

    The Observer's obituaries of 2017
    John Hurt remembered by John Boorman

    The film director remembers his friend, the actor with ‘a single malt of a voice’, who despite his ups and downs, remained a great professional

August 2017

  • Harold Pinter, Barry McGovern and John Hurt in Samuel Beckett’s production of Krapp’s Last Tape

    Play it again, Sam: why Krapp's Last Tape still leaves us reeling

    Albert Finney sobbed like an animal, Harold Pinter ramped up the terror and John Hurt even resembled Beckett himself. Now, at the Edinburgh festival, Barry McGovern takes on the role that never ceases to astonish

April 2017

  • Unwatchable. Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman in Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.

    One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in dumb movies

    Helen Mirren’s appearance in the Fast and Furious franchise is a bit of a surprise. But virtually every notable actor – from Welles to Brando to Blanchett – has cashed in an easy paycheque for a mindless franchise or a duffer

February 2017

  • FILE PHOTO: Hurt arrives at UK premiere of "Shooting Dogs" in London<br>FILE PHOTO: British actor John Hurt arrives at the U.K. premiere of "Shooting Dogs" in London March 30, 2006. The film goes on general release in U.K. on Friday. REUTERS/Stephen Hird/File photo          FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    John Hurt remembered at Oscars ceremony

    The late actor, star of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man, was honoured by the Academy in their annual In Memoriam montage
  • 1984, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR; 1984<br>JOHN HURT 
Character(s): Winston Smith 
Film 'NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR; 1984' (1984) 
Directed By MICHAEL RADFORD 
10 October 1984 
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(UK 1984) 
 
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Wearing Spectacles

    US cinemas to show Nineteen Eighty-Four in anti-Trump protest

    Coordinated screenings across North America set for 4 April to highlight Orwell’s portrait of a government ‘that manufactures facts’
  • John Hurt

    TV tonight
    Saturday's best TV: Talking Pictures – John Hurt; Taboo

    The late character actor is remembered, while the net is closing in on James Delaney in Tom Hardy’s period drama

January 2017

  • Michael Billington

    Theatre blog
    John Hurt: an absolute master at portraying misfits

    Michael Billington
  • John Hurt

    John Hurt, widely admired stage and screen actor, dies aged 77

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