'He was simply the most brilliant complete actor. A generous, funny and intelligent man. In March 2005, Hurt married his fourth wife, Anwen Rees-Meyers, an advertising film producer. [56] Proteus syndrome is the condition that Joseph Merrick, who Hurt played (renamed as John Merrick) in The Elephant Man, is thought to have suffered from, although Merrick's exact condition is still not known with certainty. 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I was so new to the business but he spoke to me like and equal, with a kindness and a dignity only a man of his generation possessed. David Lindley, Multi-Instrumentalist Who Shaped the Sound of Soft Rock, Dead at 78 There was something in his own past which made him connect with vulnerable children - I believe it happened when he was in school. A great loss to the world. William Hurt died on March 13, 2022, at age 71, just a week short of his 72nd birthday. The name William Hurt has over 312 birth records, 102 death records, 111 criminal/court records, 898 address records, 158 phone records & more. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. William Hurt, the exacting Oscar winner who dominated a decade as few other actors have done with his . Sara WEBBER. Most folks know him from ALIEN but I loved him as Sir Richard Rich from A Man for All Seasons.'. Hurt has had four marriages and a number of colourful relationships, but his longest was with French model Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot, who he met in 1967. 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However, watching theatre was considered "fine" and encouraged particularly by his mother, who took him regularly to the repertory theatre in Cleethorpes. He beat the disease but was left with health problems, although he continued to work and has a number of projects set for release even after his death. So many wonderful performances. He became more of a character actor in the 90s and thats fine. 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And although he was still an acclaimed actor, landing some of the biggest roles in the industry, he later said that those 'wild' days were a response to the tragedy. Sir John Hurt was a multi-award winning actor in an illustrious six-decade career. [19], His other roles in the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s included Kane, the first victim of the title creature in the film Alien (1979, a role which he reprised as a parody in Spaceballs); would-be art school radical Scrawdyke in Little Malcolm (1974); and also had a starring role in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but moderately successful final film, The Osterman Weekend (1983). His widow, Anwen Hurt, today said it will be 'a strange world' with out the actor, whose death has prompted an outpouring of grief from the showbusiness industry, with director Mel Brooks and J K Rowling among those paying tribute. Leonardo DiCaprio won a best actor Oscar in his 40's and at 47 today DiCaprio still has no trouble securing leading roles in good films.It just seems strange to me that Hurt had such a great run of movies and opportunities in the 80's, but for some reason that didn't carry over into the next decade and beyond for him. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Hurt's son, Will, confirmed to news outlets that the. ._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa{margin-top:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._3EpRuHW1VpLFcj-lugsvP_{color:inherit}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa svg._31U86fGhtxsxdGmOUf3KOM{color:inherit;fill:inherit;padding-right:8px}._3Z6MIaeww5ZxzFqWHAEUxa ._2mk9m3mkUAeEGtGQLNCVsJ{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;color:inherit} William Hurt, the elder, had children who were born in the first decade of the 1700s. William Hurt-- an Oscar-winning actor with a long tenure in Hollywood -- has died. Ms. Hurt, an actress, was divorced from Mr. Hurt in 1982 after a long separation. William Hurt, who became a top leading man in the 1980s, winning an Oscar for 1985's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and starring in "The Big Chill" and "Body Heat," died Sunday of . William Hurt, a leading man of 1980s Hollywood who rose to stardom as a cocky but indolent lawyer in "Body Heat," won an Oscar for playing a gay man jailed under a South American dictatorship . His death was. His acting aspirations were almost shattered forever by his headmaster's insistence that he did not stand a chance in the profession. He was 71 years old. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. ''He said we should get a divorce,'' Ms. Hurt told a judge in State Supreme Court who will rule on Ms. Jennings's contention that her living with Mr. Hurt for about five weeks in South Carolina immediately after his divorce constituted a common-law marriage under the law of that state. Decades later, Kaz now an activist fighting domestic violence began volunteering at the L.A. Rape and Battery Hotline. 'If I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible. The next witness, Tim Zinnemann, a Hollywood film writer and producer, testified that he had stayed next door to Mr. Hurt and Ms. Jennings in the final months of 1982, when the actor was filming ''The Big Chill'' in Beaufort, S.C. Mr. Zinnemann said he had stayed with the actress Meg Tilly, who also was in the film and whom he married there. Coupled with the fact that he was ageing (look at the hairline) and difficult behind-the-scenes, and it is clear why directors would move onto, The next generation of actors (Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicholas Cage, Sean Penn, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton), Box office stars (Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, John Travolta, Mel Gibson, Samuel L Jackson), Audience favorites (Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall). Fellow actors Mark Ruffalo and George Takei paid tribute on Twitter, as did Marvel Studios and best-selling author Stephen King: Wow, another Major loss to the acting community. John II HURT was born ABT 1703 in King William Co., VA., and died 1753 in Amelia Co., VA. ii. Years later, before the #MeToo movement, Kaz wrote her memoir that in part detailed her three-year relationship with Hurt; the actor did not attempt to block the books publication. In 2012, years after totally giving up drinking, he said: 'Actors don't drink so much now. "I have no . [11][12] His father was previously vicar of St John's parish in Sunderland, County Durham. [33][34], Hurt was due to appear alongside Ben Kingsley in a film entitled Broken Dream, to be directed by Neil Jordan. Read that in several places. He won further acclaim for his bravura performance as the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial I, Claudius. I believe because by the 1990s he was established after his work in the 80s . Hopping on a motorcycle, Hurt traveled all the way to the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, where he played Edmund in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. [41], In 2007, Hurt took part in the BBC genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated part of his family history. Since then the Derbyshire-born actor remained an enigmatic and much-beloved presence on the screen. Any time you see this question it's almost always the same answer: drugs and alcohol. I don't think it was ageism because he was in his 40's in the 1990's so he was still young enough to be a leading man and continue playing similar roles to ones he played in the 1980's. He would not be the first to wreck his life over that. ._2a172ppKObqWfRHr8eWBKV{-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0;margin-right:8px}._39-woRduNuowN7G4JTW4I8{margin-top:12px}._136QdRzXkGKNtSQ-h1fUru{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin:8px 0;width:100%}.r51dfG6q3N-4exmkjHQg_{font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:12px;text-transform:uppercase;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center}.r51dfG6q3N-4exmkjHQg_,._2BnLYNBALzjH6p_ollJ-RF{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._2BnLYNBALzjH6p_ollJ-RF{margin-left:auto}._1-25VxiIsZFVU88qFh-T8p{padding:0}._2nxyf8XcTi2UZsUInEAcPs._2nxyf8XcTi2UZsUInEAcPs{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-widgetColors-sidebarWidgetTextColor)} She wrote on Instagram: 'John Hurt was the craft at its finest. Sir John was well known for roles including Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, the title role in The Elephant Man and wand merchant Mr Ollivander in the Harry Potter films. How sad to lose him. The Oscar-winning actor starred in a variety of movies over the last four decades, but how many of those titl When the battering began I sloughed it off. He was a fine actor, an Academy Award winner. "It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before his 72nd birthday," said a statement by William. Hell, there's still folks in Hollywood who publicly support Roman Polanski to this day. John Hurt, who was born in the UK, had two siblings, Anselm and Monica. Due to the surname Hurt, some fans have wondered whether William was related to another late famous actor, John Hurt? The action you just performed triggered the security solution. In January 2006 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Hull.