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}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (born [[22 January (people)|22 January]] [[1940]]) played [[The Doctor (The Name of the Doctor)|The War Doctor]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''. | }}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (born [[22 January (people)|22 January]] [[1940]]) played [[The Doctor (The Name of the Doctor)|The War Doctor]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', and ''[[WC]]'': ''[[The Night of the Doctor]]''. | ||
He is known for various iconic roles such as Winston Smith in the film adaptation of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', and his award winning performance of Quentin Crisp in the TV series ''The Naked Civil Servant''. Hurt also appeared in ''I, Claudius'' alongside [[Derek Jacobi]], and more recently in three of the ''Harry Potter'' movies as Garrick Ollivander, ''V For Vendetta'', ''Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy'', and provided the voice of the dragon in the BBC series ''Merlin''. | He is known for various iconic roles such as Winston Smith in the film adaptation of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', and his award winning performance of Quentin Crisp in the TV series ''The Naked Civil Servant''. Hurt also appeared in ''I, Claudius'' alongside [[Derek Jacobi]], and more recently in three of the ''Harry Potter'' movies as Garrick Ollivander, ''V For Vendetta'', ''Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy'', and provided the voice of the dragon in the BBC series ''Merlin''. | ||
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Revision as of 17:57, 14 November 2013
John Hurt (born 22 January 1940) played The War Doctor in TV: The Name of the Doctor, and WC: The Night of the Doctor.
He is known for various iconic roles such as Winston Smith in the film adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his award winning performance of Quentin Crisp in the TV series The Naked Civil Servant. Hurt also appeared in I, Claudius alongside Derek Jacobi, and more recently in three of the Harry Potter movies as Garrick Ollivander, V For Vendetta, Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy, and provided the voice of the dragon in the BBC series Merlin.
Hurt also appeared in the Ridley Scott film Alien, portraying the character of Kane who is central to the infamous "chest-bursting" scene, regarded as one of the most famous scenes in science fiction cinema. As such it has been referenced and parodied several times, which he did himself in Spaceballs. Steven Moffat's earlier series Coupling is another such example.
John Hurt also exists as an individual within the Doctor Who universe: in TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts, Toshiko Sato compared the body of a dead soldier with his heart ripped out to "that bit in Alien where that thing bursts out of John Hurt."
External link
- John Hurt at the Internet Movie Database
