EdgarusQPFC Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Shame to see him go, from what im hearing it was cancer. Great actor, ill always remember his role as Kane in the first alien Movie, but my favorite performance of his will be Sutler in V for vandetta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Hard lines, John. The Naked Civil Servant was groundbreaking telly for those of us of a certain age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Was brilliant in Elephant Man, which is pretty much my favourite film. Nothing ever dies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 A great actor. Always enjoyed watching him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Fantastic as the war doctor in Dr. Who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Great actor, tremendous performance in The Elephant Man and the chest bursting scene in Alien is one of the most iconic ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 He had loads of fantastic roles. Caligula was my favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 1984 and Watership Down were probably mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daydream Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Champions. One of the movies of my childhood RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 He played Chris Mullin, the former Labour MP who wrote a book about, and campaigned for the release of the Birmingham Six in the ITV mini series 'Who Bombed Birmingham'. Will always think of him when I see an alien burst out of someones chest. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Burton Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 His role in Alien and 1984 were my favourites from him. The chest buster scene from Alien is brutal apparently the rest of the cast didn't know what was about to happen. One of his speeches from 1984 starts the song Faster by the Manic Street Preachers which I've heard so many times. Can also remember him in a show for kids called the story teller or something similar. It was Hurt and a puppet dog explaining some of the Greek mythology stories. Can remember watching it as a kid and finding all the mythology really interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Outside of The Skeleton Key, I can't think of a movie he was in that I didn't enjoy an awful lot. And I've seen a lot of movies with him in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingette Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 For me v for vandetta and tinker tailor, soldier spy. Although to be fair pretty much everything he was in was watchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Seems to be the week for the last of certain great groups of their age passing - Tam Dalyell's passing meant the last of Parliament's esteemed "Goon Show" of Benn, Dalyell, Foot & Powell have gone; & with Hurt vanishes the last of that quintet Burton, Harris, O'Toole & Reed whose outrageousness off screen was matched by their preposterous talent on screen & stage. Hurt always looked more like the first to go, ironic he should prove the last. His strength was he could turn his talent to absolutely anything & be brilliant at it, from heavy drama such as 10 Rillington Place & The Elephant Man to family stuff like the Harry Potter series. Like Burton, his intonation & delivery lent an extra gravity to those narration pieces he delivered so that merely having him seen but not heard could be enough to make you want to watch what otherwise would not have been of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 2017 can f**k right off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Brilliant in '1984' and 'V for vandetta'. Those two and 'Alien' were mine. '1984' is probably my favourite of his work, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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