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John Hurt played an unknown incarnation of the Doctor in TV: The Name of the Doctor. He will also appear in the 50th Anniversary Special, where he will portray the same incarnation of the Doctor.
Within the Doctor Who universe
John Hurt 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."