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7 unusual facts about John Hurt


Anthony Summers

Honeytrap (on the Profumo sex/spy scandal, 1987), one of several books used as background for the film Scandal (1989), starring John Hurt.

Arne Sucksdorff

Sucksdorff's last film was the 1971 feature Cry of the Penguins (also titled Mr. Forbush and the Penguins), starring John Hurt and Hayley Mills.

Arthur Crew Inman

Lorenzo DeStefano's film version of his play, Hypergraphia, starring John Hurt, is in development.

Digital Leisure

In addition to the Don Bluth titles, the company acquired the North American rights to publish Tender Loving Care, an interactive movie on DVD-ROM and CD-ROM featuring Academy Award nominee John Hurt in early 1999.

Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton

Famous faces to have been interviewed on the show include Kristin Scott Thomas and John Hurt.

Tamas Menyhart

Tamas Menyhart has worked on the same movies and television sets with notable actors such as Mickey Rourke, John Hurt and Isaac C. Singleton Jr and others.

Treason Act 1702

In the movie King Ralph, Ralph used the Treason Act of 1702 as his justification in ordering the arrest of Lord Graves (John Hurt) on the grounds that Graves had interfered with Ralph's succession to the throne.


Alan Clark Diaries

The Diaries were serialised into six episodes of The Alan Clark Diaries by the BBC and shown in 2004 with John Hurt and Jenny Agutter.

Bar Italia

In July 2011, British artist Ed Gray unveiled a painting of Bar Italia featuring patrons Rupert Everett and John Hurt.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

A film version of Captain Corelli's Mandolin was released in 2001, with Nicolas Cage as the Italian Captain Corelli, John Hurt as Dr Iannis, and Penélope Cruz as his daughter, Pelagia.

Divine Rapture

Divine Rapture is an uncompleted film that had been cast in 1995 with Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger and John Hurt.

Hercules: The Thracian Wars

-- The official title of this film is Hercules, not Hercules: The Thracian Wars --> is an upcoming American action-adventure film, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Reece Ritchie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Joseph Fiennes, and John Hurt.

Nothing Has Been Proved

Along with these come short reels from the film Scandal starring Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Britt Ekland, and Bridget Fonda as well as original news footage from 1963.

Patricia Hodge

She has appeared in roles as diverse as in The Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt,as Myra Arundel in the 1984 BBC version of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, as Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play, and in 2007 as Betty, the wife of tycoon Robert Maxwell, in the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet.

Wing Commander: Privateer

Privateer 2 was most notable for its live action sequences featuring such talents as Clive Owen, Mathilda May, Jürgen Prochnow, John Hurt, and Christopher Walken amongst many others.


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Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

In a 1981 conversation with Hunter Davies, who had written a biography of the Beatles in 1968, McCartney responded to a Yoko Ono interview where she said McCartney had hurt Lennon more than anyone else, by saying, "No one ever goes on about the times John hurt me ... Could I have hurt him more than the person who ran down his mother in his car?"