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Sir John Vincent Hurt, CBE (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017) was an English actor, who was partially known for portraying wand-maker Garrick Ollivander in the Harry Potter film series, The Horned King from The Black Cauldron, the War Doctor from the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who and the title character of Jim Henson's The StoryTeller. Among other honours, he received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition.

In 2015, he was one of the special guest stars in the special Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure.

Hurt passed away on 25 January 2017, following a year and a half long fight with pancreatic cancer.

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Filmography

Films

  • A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  • The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (TV)
  • I, Claudius (1977) (miniseries)
  • Watership Down (1978) (voice)
  • Midnight Express (1978)
  • The Lord of the Rings (1978) (voice)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Elephant Man (1980)
  • Heaven's Gate (1980)
  • History of the World: Part I (1981)
  • Night Crossing (1981)
  • The Plague Dogs (1982) (voice)
  • Partners (1982)
  • The Osterman Weekend (1983)
  • King Lear (1984) (TV)
  • The Hit (1984)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
  • Champions (1984)
  • The Black Cauldron (1985) (voice)
  • Aria (1986)
  • White Mischief (1987)
  • Spaceballs (1987)
  • The Jim Henson Hour (1989) (TV series)
  • Scandal (1989)
  • Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
  • The Field (1990)
  • King Ralph (1991)
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author (1992) (TV)
  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
  • Thumbelina (1994)
  • Felidae (1994) (English dub)
  • Second Best (1994)
  • Rob Roy (1995)
  • Dead Man (1995)
  • Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
  • Contact (1997)
  • All the Little Animals (1998)
  • The Climb (1998)
  • Watership Down (1999-2000) (TV, voice)
  • The Tigger Movie (2000) (voice)
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
  • Crime and Punishment (2002)
  • Owning Mahowny (2003)
  • Dogville (2003) (voice)
  • The Alan Clark Diaries (2004)
  • Hellboy (2004)
  • Pride (2004) (TV) (voice)
  • Valiant (2005) (voice)
  • Manderlay (2005) (TV)
  • The Proposition (2005)
  • The Skeleton Key (2005)
  • Shooting Dogs (2005)
  • BBC Merlin (2005-2012) (voice) (TV) as Kilgharrah aka. The Great Dragon
  • V for Vendetta (2006)
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
  • The Oxford Murders (2007)
  • Outlander (2007)
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
  • Ultramarines (2010)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010 - 2011)
  • Melancholia (2011)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  • Immortals (2011)
  • Doctor Who (2013) (TV)
  • Hercules (2014)
  • Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015)
  • Jackie (2016)
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