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He studied there for two years, securing bit parts on TV shows. Disillusioned with the prospect of becoming a teacher, Hurt moved to London, where he won an acting scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He studied art at his parents’ behest, earning an art teacher’s diploma. 22, 1940, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. He is set to be seen in the upcoming features That Good Night and My Name Is Lenny and was to play Neville Chamberlain in the upcoming Joe Wright drama Darkest Hour. His more recent film appearances came in Snowpiercer (2013), The Journey (2016) and Jackie (2016). “We were making commercial films then that really did have cracking scenes in them, as well as plenty to say, you know?” “I loved making Midnight Express,” he said in 2014.
The Alan Parker drama was based on the true story of Billy Hayes (played by Brad Davis), an American college student caught smuggling drugs.
Hurt also garnered an Oscar best supporting actor nomination and a Golden Globe win in 1979 for Midnight Express, in which he portrayed a heroin addict in a Turkish prison. If an actor is just acting terrified, you can’t get the genuine look of raw, animal fear. “Ridley didn’t tell the cast,” executive producer Ronald Shusett told Empire magazine in 2009. “He said, ‘They’re just going to see it.’”Įxplained Scott: “The reactions were going to be the most difficult thing. (How’d they do that? There was an artificial chest screwed to the table, and Hurt was underneath.) One of his most memorable came when he played Kane, the first victim in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), in which he collapses over a table and a snakelike alien bursts out of his chest.
On his YouTube page, a video titled “The Many Deaths of John Hurt” compiled his cinematic demises in 4 minutes and 30 seconds, from The Wild and the Willing (1962) to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), 40 in all. “It got to a point where my children wouldn’t ask me if I died, but rather how do you die?” “I think I’ve got the record,” he once said. On screens big and small, Hurt died what seemed a thousand deaths.