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RIP John Hurt

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  • #2
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,945 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    How I can sum that man up?

    Comsumate Professional. What a man, what a career. He'll live forever in our minds.

    Rest in peace.


  • #3
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    He had the ability to take any part and raise it to a higher level. Even an apparently minor part as an officer on a spaceship, the guy who gets infected by an alien creature which then decides to leave ... :eek:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    Who could forget the Bird

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiImoPnLsFs


  • #5
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,590 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    He always came across as a total gentlemen. He will be missed.

    RIP.


  • #6
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I always though him younger for some reason, probably as he "played" young in his early career. He'd been more than 10 years in the biz before The Naked Civil Servant.

    Loads of good roles but his splendidly barking Caligula would be a favourite.


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  • #7
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,529 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    My dad told me the story of how he bumped into John Hurt in the Portlaoise Shopping Centre of all places, Hurt was living just outside Stradbally a few afters the making of "The Field", they chatted away and Hurt was happy that the conversation was about boxing, whom he was an avid fan of instead of the acting industry anyway he offered my dad a lift, when he saw all my dads bags of shopping, but my dad had the car with him and so declined but got an autograph, he said he was a proper gentleman and full of manners. Sad to hear of his passing. I thought his performance in "The Elephant Man" was sensational. RIP John.


  • #8
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,451 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #9
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    I ...

    I didn't realise he was Bird in The Field. I watched that film when I was young though. I kind of want to revisit it now.

    1984 was the film that made him iconic for me. After seeing that, all his films and appearances immediately meant the shows were going to be done well.

    RIP John Hurt.


  • #10
    L Angelo Misterioso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭L Angelo Misterioso


    Fantastic actor. Very sad. A lot has been made of his most famous performances and rightly so, but I thought he was just as brilliant in V for Vendetta. RIP.


  • #11
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    As well as remembering him from The Field, the other thing I will always remember him by is his voice from those terrifying adverts about AIDS from back when I was a kid.(we had an old BBC aerial,so we could watch the British channels too).
    His voice,and the way he spoke in those ads, may have saved many lives.
    RIP John.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



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  • #12
    pinksoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭pinksoir


    A genuine and great actor who utterly inhabited every role. What a legacy and career.


  • #13
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,154 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Slydice wrote: »
    1984 was the film that made him iconic for me.

    His Winston Smith is the only way that I can see that character now.


  • #14
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,759 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Didn't realise he also narrated documentaries, just discovering this stuff for the first time.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #15
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail



    I watched Bakshi's animated take on the Lord of the Rings a few years ago, and was pleasently surprised when Aragorn spoke.


  • #16
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,817 ✭✭✭Addle


    The timing makes his role in Jackie particularly poignant.


  • #17
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    He lived in Co Waterford


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