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John Vincent Hurt Order of the British Empire|CBE
(born January 22, 1940) is a United
Kingdom|British actor.

Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Hurt studied art
at the St. Martin's School for Art, but turned to
the stage in 1962.  He performed with the Royal
Shakespeare Company, and is a member of the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

His first film was 1962's The Wild and the
Willing, but his first major role was as Richard
Rich, 1st Baron Rich|Richard Rich in 1966's A Man
for All Seasons.  However, it was his portrayal of
the outrageous Quentin Crisp in the 1975 TV play,
The Naked Civil Servant, that he shot to fame,
earning the British Academy of Film and Television
Arts|BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor in the
process. The following year, Hurt gave a memorable
performance as the emperor Caligula in the major
BBC drama serial, I, Claudius. He is likely best
known to American audiences as the memorable first
victim of the title creature in the film Alien
(movie)|Alien, or as "John" Merrick in the Joseph
Merrick biography The Elephant Man.

Hurt was awarded the Order of the British
Empire|CBE in June 2004.

==Partial filmography==
*Midnight Express (nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor)
*Alien (movie)|Alien
*Heaven's Gate (movie)|Heaven's Gate
*The Elephant Man (nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Actor)
*History of the World, Part I (cameo appearance as
Jesus)
*Champions
*Watership Down (voice only)
*The Osterman Weekend
*Spaceballs (cameo appearance spoofing his role in
Alien (movie)|Alien)
*Aria (movie)|Aria
*White Mischief
*Scandal (movie)|Scandal
*The Field
*Frankenstein Unbound
*King Ralph
*Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
*Contact (film)|Contact
*1984 (film)|1984
*Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
*Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(movie)|Harry Potter and the
Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone
*Hellboy
*The Black Cauldron (film)|The Black Cauldron
(voice only)
*The Plague Dogs (voice only)
*Shooting Dogs

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0000457|name=John Hurt