John Hurt at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

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John Hurt Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors. Director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in ...

, CBE (1940–2017) was an English actor and voice actor whose career spanned six decades. He had roles in over 130 films with dozens of television roles.

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Other projects and contributions

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When Love Speaks ''When Love Speaks'' is a compilation album that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets – some spoken, some set to music – and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics in April ...

'' (2002, EMI Classics) – "

Sonnet 145 Sonnet 145 is one of Shakespeare's sonnets. It forms part of the Dark Lady sequence of sonnets and is the only one written not in iambic pentameter, but instead tetrameter. It is also the Shakespeare sonnet which uses the fewest letters. It is ...

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("Those lips that Love's own hand did make") * Hurt performs in

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for the promotional video for ''

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'' by the music group Suede. * Hurt is seen as the ' Brian Epstein' esque mogul in Paul McCartney's 1982 video for his song " Take It Away". McCartney explains in the video commentary section of ''

The McCartney Years ''The McCartney Years'' is a three-DVD set featuring music videos, live performances and other rare footage from Paul McCartney's solo career and Wings. The set spans the years 1970 to 2005. It was released by Warner Music in the UK on 12 Novem ...

'' DVD (for the song 'Take it Away') that Hurt himself was a friend of the Beatles and Brian Epstein, and that the Beatles had watched Hurt act in the mid-'60s and thought him a fine actor. * Hurt is the narrator of the 1995

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documentary ''On Jupiter''. * Narrator on the album

The Seduction of Claude Debussy ''The Seduction of Claude Debussy'' is the fifth and final studio album by Art of Noise, released in June 1999 in the United Kingdom and the United States, and December 1999 in Japan. It features a line-up of Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, Paul Mor ...

by the band Art of Noise (1999). * Hurt is the narrator of the 4 part series ''The Universe'' for Channel 4 International, released in 1999 and available on DVD. * Hurt co-starred alongside

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in the 10 part web series '' The Confession''. * A line from the movie ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' featuring the voice of Hurt can be heard as the introduction to the Manic Street Preachers song "Faster" * In two volumes of a documentary called ''Life in the Animal Kingdom: Untamed Africa'', filmed in the Maasai Mara Game Preserve in Kenya (the two volumes being called ''Hunter and Hunted'' and ''Survival on the Serengeti''), Hurt served as the narrator. * '' Benjamin Britten – Peace and Conflict'', a British feature film written and directed by

Tony Britten Tony Britten is a British composer, best known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem.Mercedes F1 Team video ad based on the poem " If—" by Rudyard Kipling. *Voice of the father (in the letter to his son) in the animated short ''The Alchemist's Letter '' by Carlos Andre Stevens. *Hurt voiced the character of Griffin in an audio drama of ''The Invisible Man'' for Big Finish Productions released posthumously in February 2017.

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