John Hurt - dead at 77
 

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RIP Kane

So many good roles and films

Midnight Express
Alien
1984
The Elephant Man
Heaven's Gate


Just to name a few.

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Just watched V for Vendetta last night, too.

2017 is wanting a quick start like last year.

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Fuck! With the exception of his completely out-of-place performance in the last Indiana Jones movie I liked everything I saw him in.

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Alien is one of my favorite movies of all-time. He was great in countless other roles. :rip: :(

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Hellboy


RIP

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One of the best there was. RIP.

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Damn if 2017 isn't already outpacing 2016.
This.

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So sad. His version of Caligula is where I took my screen name from. He will be missed.

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One of the greatest actors of our time. He will be missed.

"Doctor no more."

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I didn't know that was him. So, between the Alien chest-burster and the fetus-eating Caligula, he starred in two of the most disturbing scenes of the 1970s.

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At least The Daily Mail has a proper headline. The Independent called him a "Harry Potter actor".

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Oh, for god's sake...

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Bummer.

Fitting at least that the first member of the Nostromo crew to die was the first member of the Nostromo crew to die (I think).

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Agreed. A real thespian.

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Almost/semi-true. Helen Horton, the woman who played the voice of "Mother" died several years ago.

And Harry Dean Stanton is 90. Day-umn.

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Just read the news. :( RIP

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RIP, Mr. Hurt.

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What a bunch of shit. The guy is most famously known for The Elephant Man, Alien & Midnight Express.

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He was beyond brilliant in one of the absolute masterpieces of cinema: The Elephant Man.

RIP

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He certainly seemed to have the market cornered on dystopian future movies. :lol:

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Thank you kefrank. When I think of John Hurt, and his impressive body of work, "The Elephant Man" immediately comes to mind first. His performance was just stellar. And the film, as you said, is a masterpiece. David Lynch's best IMO.

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Yeah his Caligula was my earliest memory of him.

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His performances that most affected me were The Elephant Man, Caligula in I,Claudius, 1984, and his voice work in Watership Down. When I was a kid, I must have watched Watership Down dozens of times...before VHS!

The Harry Potter thing kind of reminds me of Alec Guinness and his supposed disdain for Star Wars. After the career he had and to be remembered for one part he did for a lark.

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RIP John Hurt
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Very sad. Great performances throughout the years.

I just watched V for Vendetta 2 days ago too.

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:(:(

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Just watched that movie again a few days ago and never knew all this time that was John Hurt. Great scene.

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And we just lost Richard Adams a few weeks back as well. :(

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One of his performances that doesn't get a lot of talk but made a big impression on me if is Heavens Gate.

He's one of those guys that did a lot in his career but doesn't get a lot of credit.

So many classic roles.

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Hurt and Ian McShane made their film debuts in the same film, THE WILD AND THE WILLING (aka YOUNG AND WILLING, 1962). Samantha Eggar also made her film debut in it. Sounds like it might be worth seeing just for those reasons alone. McShane and Eggar are both still with us.

The New York Times obit for Hurt features a quote from an interview in which Hurt tells a story about Alan Ladd. I found that gratifying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/m...ef=todayspaper

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All amazing performances cited here and more.

As Richard Rich in "A man for all seasons", which Is one of my favorite movies ever. I believe he was the last major actor from that movie still living.

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He's dead?

Again???

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Sorry. Couldn't help it. Best death scene ever. (If you've seen Alien, of course...)

He was a really good actor. It's a shame that we'll never see him in anything else. He does leave behind a lot of good performances.

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Just watched "Jackie" tonight. Didn't know he was in it. He turned in yet another great performance. Got sad the minute I saw him appear. What a talent!

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He was also the star in one of my favorite schlock movies that has been mostly forgotten (or perhaps never known), Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (alongside Bridget Fonda, Raul Julia, Jason Patric, and Michael Hutchence).

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RIP. He added a touch of class in every movie he appeared in.

It was not his biggest movie but he was great in Owning Mahowny and providing PhillipSeymour Hoffmans character with ribs and a coke.

Sucks both of them are dead.

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Outstanding actor. He will be missed.

I still remember how creepy/killer he was in what was a comedy movie From the Hip with Judd Nelson and of course the professor in Hellboy.

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Yup... :sad:

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He was great in so many roles but a favorite of mine is his old man character from Wild Bill (1995). Seems like he's been playing characters in their 70s his whole career.