Biography
William Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American stage, film and television actor, trained at the Juilliard School, Manhattan, New York, USA. For his leading role in the feature film "Kiss of the Spider Woman", he received an Academy Award in 1986, followed by 3 more nominations for roles in the movies "Children of a Lesser God", "Broadcast News", and "A History of Violence".
Known For
Complete Filmography

The King's Daughter
2022
as Pere La Chaise
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate d...

Black Widow
2021
as Secretary Ross
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursue...

Disclosure
2020
as Luis Molina (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...

The Last Full Measure
2020
as Tulley
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirt...

Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini...

Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from ...

The Miracle Season
2018
as Ernie Found
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance o...

Captain America: Civil War
2016
as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarize...

Race
2016
as Jeremiah Mahoney
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage ...
Men of Granite
2015
A group of poor immigrant high school boys in Granite, Illinois defy all odds and go on to win the 1940 state championship in basketball.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
as Julian Rigby
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may ...

Days and Nights
2014
as Herb
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chek...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
as Julian Rigby
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her...

Winter's Tale
2014
as Isaac Penn
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Fire in the Blood
2013
as Self
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocke...

The Host
2013
as Jeb Stryder
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as ...

The Challenger Disaster
2013
as Richard Feynman
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronau...

Maddened by His Absence
2012
as Jacques
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he sha...

Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and ...

Too Big to Fail
2011
as Henry Paulson
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...

Hellgate
2011
as Warren Mills
A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow worl...

Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
2011
as Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross (archive footage)
Agent Coulson informs Agent Sitwell that the World Security Council wishes Emil Blonsky to be released from prison to join the Avengers Initiative. As...

Late Bloomers
2011
as Adam
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hu...

Robin Hood
2010
as William Marshal
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober...

The Real Robin Hood
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Was there really a Robin Hood? Did he steal from the rich and give to the poor? This History Channel program revisits the popular legend of the valian...

The River Why
2010
as H2O
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and...

The Yellow Handkerchief
2009
as Brett Hanson
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

The Countess
2009
as György Thurzó
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a young...

Endgame
2009
as Professor Will Esterhuyse
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African Nat...

Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
2008
as Self
Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception and legacy. Director David Weisman, who also produce...

The Incredible Hulk
2008
as General 'Thunderbolt' Ross
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dr...
Alexander Technique
2008
as Self
Feature film.

Vantage Point
2008
as President Ashton
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have ...

Noise
2007
as Mayor Schneer
A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

Into the Wild
2007
as Walt McCandless
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savi...

Mr. Brooks
2007
as Marshall
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

The Legend of Sasquatch
2007
as John Davis
The Davis Family - John, Khristy and Maggie - move in to a secluded log cabin in the mountains above Seattle. They soon discover a family of Bigfoot h...

The Good Shepherd
2006
as Philip Allen
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...

Beautiful Ohio
2006
as Simon Messerman
A quietly provocative coming-of-age drama about two brothers — Clive and William — growing up in the unconventional household of progressive parents i...

The King
2006
as David
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian commun...

Too Commercial for Cannes
2006
as Self
A day in a life tour diary with David Cronenberg, as he brings his film "A History of Violence" to the Cannes Film Festival (2005) for its first publi...

Syriana
2005
as Stan
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...

A History of Violence
2005
as Richie Cusack
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Neverwas
2005
as Dr. Peter Reed
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h...

Hunt for Justice
2005
as General Mortimer
The heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she ba...

Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
as Self
In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movi...

The Village
2004
as Edward Walker
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alte...

The Blue Butterfly
2004
as Alan Osborne
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on ...

Nearest to Heaven
2002
as Matt
People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, sh...

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002
as Robert P. Hanssen
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and ...

Tuck Everlasting
2002
as Angus Tuck
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater ...

Changing Lanes
2002
as Doyle's Sponsor
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two pe...

The Simian Line
2001
as Edward
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita predicts th...

Rare Birds
2001
as Dave
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing th...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Prof. Hobby
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually b...

Varian's War
2001
as Varian Fry
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.

The Flamingo Rising
2001
as Turner Knight
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turn...

Contaminated Man
2000
as David R. Whitman
In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild h...

The Miracle Maker
2000
as Jairus (voice)
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...

Do Not Disturb
1999
as Walter Richmond
Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where ...

Sunshine
1999
as Andor Knorr
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

The 4th Floor
1999
as Greg Harrison
A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor.

The Big Brass Ring
1999
as William Blake Pellarin
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past...

The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
as Self
A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew.

One True Thing
1998
as George Gulden
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Lost in Space
1998
as Prof. John Robinson
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

The Proposition
1998
as Arthur Barret
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and...

Dark City
1998
as Inspector Frank Bumstead
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...

Lost In Space Forever
1998
as Self (also archive footage)
Host John Larroquette takes viewers on a nostalgic trip through the 1965-1968 sci-fi comedy series. The disc's rare footage include Guy Williams's scr...

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
1998
as Self
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they ...

Loved
1997
as K.D. Dietrickson
After a man is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wro...

Elie Wiesel Goes Home
1997
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his...

Michael
1996
as Frank Quinlan
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.

Secrets Shared with a Stranger
1996
as The stranger
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the s...

A Couch in New York
1996
as Henry Harriston
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice ...

Jane Eyre
1996
as Rochester
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Smoke
1995
as Paul Benjamin
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t...

Second Best
1994
as Graham Holt
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Trial by Jury
1994
as Tommy Vesey
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Mr. Wonderful
1993
as Tom
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wif...

The Plague
1992
as Doctor Bernard Rieux
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decide...
Rabbit Ears - The Boy Who Drew Cats
1991
as Narrator (voice)
This is the story of a small Japanese boy whose only interest is drawing pictures of cats...even while everyone else in the village is struggling to d...

Until the End of the World
1991
as Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Pa...

The Doctor
1991
as Jack
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has s...

Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990
as Self
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and d...

Alice
1990
as Doug Tate
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h...

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
1990
as Steve Mills (voice)
Worse than having your glove stolen, worse than Chinese water torture, even worse than the earth spinning off its axis and careening into Mars, your m...

I Love You to Death
1990
as Harlan James
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been che...

The Accidental Tourist
1988
as Macon Leary
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, ...

A Time of Destiny
1988
as Martin Larraneta
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.

Broadcast News
1987
as Tom Grunick
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she...

Children of a Lesser God
1986
as James Leeds
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1985
as Oberon
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985
as Luis Molina
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his politic...

Gorky Park
1983
as Arkady Renko
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his s...

The Big Chill
1983
as Nick Carlton
Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

All the Way Home
1981
as Jay Follet
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

Body Heat
1981
as Ned Racine
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Eyewitness
1981
as Daryll Deever
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. ...

Altered States
1980
as Professor Eddie Jessup
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native America...

Verna: USO Girl
1978
as Walter
An untalented singer-dancer, Verna Vane, fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas will put her on the road to superstardom. Although she's more ...