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LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,793
edited January 2017 in The Commons

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/acting-legend-john-hurt-midnight-express-elephant-man-dead-77-n713506

Whatever will become of Ollivander's wand shop?

OMG! He was Caligula too.  41 years ago in "I Claudius". surprise

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  • ValandarValandar Posts: 1,417

    Elephant Man... Kane from Alien (and the shout out in Spaceballs)... Watership Down... the dragon in Merlin... the War Doctor... 1984... V for Vendetta... the voice of Aragorn from the animated LOTR... and so much more. He was part of a lot more of popular culture than people perhaps realize.

  • nelsonsmithnelsonsmith Posts: 1,337

    DAMN !!!

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479

    Looks like 2017 is picking up where 2016 left off... sad

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,172
    edited January 2017

    This one makes me soooo, soooo sad :(

    *sigh*

    "Looks like 2017 is picking up where 2016 left off... sad"

    Not really. This will be now until the end of our own lives. Most of us are at "that age" now which means they're old enough to reach the end of their lives. "They" being the actors and musicians we grew up with and know :'( He was in so many things I love - I had a super geeky thing for Merlin and Harry Potter, love the movie "The Outlander" (do look it up), of course really love the Alien franchise - at least the first two movies, and V for Vendetta is my very very favorite movie ever. God speed Mr. Hurt.

    Laurie

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  • Silent WinterSilent Winter Posts: 3,806

    RIP :(

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392

    This is a very sad development. There was a very good tribute to him on BBC News 24 earlier this morning.  It's good to see so many of you mentioning his work on the Ridley Scott classic "Alien".

    Alex.

  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438

    The thing I always liked about John Hurt was that he picked parts for the challenge - not the box-office glory. An example is the movie 'Skeleton Key' where he played a truamatised mute. Not a single word of dialog, but he really stole the movie.

  • StonemasonStonemason Posts: 1,199

    had no idea he was the elephant man..saw him only a couple days ago in Only Lovers Left Alive..sad news :(

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,586
    edited January 2017
    LeatherGryphon said:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/acting-legend-john-hurt-midnight-express-elephant-man-dead-77-n713506

    Whatever will become of Ollivander's wand shop?

    OMG! He was Caligula too.  41 years ago in "I Claudius". surprise

    In our house it was always known as I CLAVDIVS (with the Vs pronounced, because of the romanesque writing in the titles.

    A reminder of some of the things John Hurt was known for:

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  • GreybroGreybro Posts: 2,556

    A fine actor indeed. R.I.P.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,264

    By coincidence, I was watching the series I Claudius last week.  And as a DC resident, his role in 1984 hits a little too close to home.  RIP.

     

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,402
    AllenArt said:

    This one makes me soooo, soooo sad :(

    *sigh*

    "Looks like 2017 is picking up where 2016 left off... sad"

    Not really. This will be now until the end of our own lives. Most of us are at "that age" now which means they're old enough to reach the end of their lives. "They" being the actors and musicians we grew up with and know :'( He was in so many things I love - I had a super geeky thing for Merlin and Harry Potter, love the movie "The Outlander" (do look it up), of course really love the Alien franchise - at least the first two movies, and V for Vendetta is my very very favorite movie ever. God speed Mr. Hurt.

    Laurie

    ...sadly, so true, but yes, yet another great loss.

    Just the other day Mike Connors, best known for his television role as the detective Joe Mannix passed on at the age of 91 as well.

  • NGartplayNGartplay Posts: 3,265

    I loved him as Caligula.  Sorry to hear of his passing.  A great actor.

  • thistledownsnamethistledownsname Posts: 1,331

    I mostly know him as the War Doctor on Dr Who.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    maclean said:

    The thing I always liked about John Hurt was that he picked parts for the challenge - not the box-office glory. An example is the movie 'Skeleton Key' where he played a truamatised mute. Not a single word of dialog, but he really stole the movie.

    One of his best roles was in a British TV bio-pic about the flamboyant but often tragic Quentin Crisp who suffered through years of being an outwardly gay man in a time when it was illegal.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Civil_Servant_(film)

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