Biography
Sir John Vincent Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt's performan...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still...

Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (War) (archive footage)
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him ba...

Ayamé
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Facing total extinction, a military operation turns to the stars in order to relocate the entire human race. During the exodus, one man is sent to res...

Damascus Cover
2017
as Miki
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

That Good Night
2017
as Ralph
A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.

My Name Is Lenny
2017
as Leslie Salmon
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".

The Journey
2017
as Harry Patterson
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...

Jackie
2016
as The Priest
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets
2016
as Siegfried Sassoon
The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in t...

Back to Utopia
2016
as Professor Peter Panludic (voice)
The 500-year-old book UTOPIA takes us on a journey through the world of today. A quest that will reveal how Thomas More's vision lives on in ordinary,...

The Final Reel
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
An affectionate and entertaining look at our nation's obsession with cinema from the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the pictur...

ChickLit
2016
as Francis Bonar
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mum...

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon...

Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie
2015
as Sailor John (voice)
Shiver me timbers. Surprises await Thomas and his friends as they dig up their most daring adventure yet. Unearthing an old pirate ship, Thomas is on ...

A.K.A Nadia
2015
as 347
Maya is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer and everything seems to be perfect...but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to...

Break
2015
as Jack
Following an initial misunderstanding between an older couple and a young family, fate takes a hand in bringing both parties closer together. One smal...

The Alchemist's Letter
2015
as The Alchemist (voice)
Pixel Veil presents “The Alchemist’s Letter,” a richly inventive and visually stunning dark fairly tale. When Veridian, an estranged young man, receiv...
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
2015
as Narator
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death in 2015, filmmaker Reiner Moritz produced his documentary Dmitri Shostakovich,...

Wimbledon The Official Film 2014
2014
as Narrator
Wimbledon 2014 is the definitive account of the 128th Championships. Coming into the tournament, the top four seeds in the Gentlemen's Singles were Se...

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

Hercules
2014
as Cotys
When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.

Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
as Christopher Marlowe
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by t...

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
as Self
Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present, celebrity...

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013
as The War Doctor
A two-scene introduction that was shown exclusively in advance of the 50th anniversary theatrical screenings of The Day of the Doctor.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The War Doctor
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in spa...

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as The War Doctor (archive voice)
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. B...

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
2013
as The War Doctor
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear...

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
as Self / Stephen Ward
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's fra...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Snowpiercer
2013
as Gilliam
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that tr...

Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
as Kingsley Bedford
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. The scars of the past hide differences tha...

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
2013
as The Voice of the Winter Palace / Self
A spectacular special event edition of Swan Lake in 3-D starring Ekaterina Kondaurova and Natalia Vodianova, model, actress, and storyteller, was reco...

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
2013
as Narrator (voice)
A feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer worl...

Sightseers
2012
as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers
2012
as Narrator (voice)
Adapted from the multi-award winning BBC1 series, Planet Dinosaur 3D recreates the lost world of the dinosaurs in a groundbreaking stereoscopic produc...

More Than Honey
2012
as Narrator (english voice)
With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybee...

The Snipist
2012
as The Ministry
The struggle of a lone sniper in a dystopian future Britain plagued with rabies and ruled over by a sinistrous Ministry of Information.

The Gruffalo's Child
2011
as The Owl (voice)
A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores th...

Immortals
2011
as Old Zeus
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that...

On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant.

In Love with Alma Cogan
2011
as MC
The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life, b...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as Control
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleague...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Ollivander
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes
2011
as Professor Orit
An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity ...

The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
2011
as Narrator

Melancholia
2011
as Dexter
Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s be...

The Confession
2011
as Priest
A unique story of redemption and an exploration of good and evil featuring a hit man and a priest.

Sailcloth
2011
as Man
An elderly widower sets in motion series of events to veil his disappearance from a nursing home. After gathering necessities he heads to the local pi...

Whistle and I'll Come to You
2010
as James Parkin
After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visi...

Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
2010
as Carnak
A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no an...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Ollivander
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

Love at First Sight
2010
as Arthur
A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his retirement home.

Brighton Rock
2010
as Phil Corkery
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
as Self
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control" (starrin...

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
as Grandpa Sammy (voice)
Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy races across the beach to the ocean while avoiding being caught by seagulls and crabs. T...

Lou
2010
as Doyle
Rhia's relationship with her daughter Lou hits an all-time low when she lets her father-in-law, Doyle, who has Alzheimer's, move in. More problems ari...

The Gruffalo
2009
as Owl (voice)
The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Sn...

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."

Ballybrando
2009
as Self
An documentary recounting the story with interviews of cast, crew and production team and including producer Barry Navidi, who had worked for six year...

44 Inch Chest
2009
as Old Man Peanut
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
Remembrance
2009
as Bellhop
Former singer Isabelle visits a hotel on the Upper East Side. She is not satisfied with the room she has been given and is taken to another room one f...

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...

The Limits of Control
2009
as Guitar
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...

An Englishman in New York
2009
as Quentin Crisp
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there un...

Lecture 21
2008
as Mondrian Kilroy
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symph...

New York, I Love You
2008
as Bellhop
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond Dist...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008
as Trevor Bruttenholm
Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim E...

Recount
2008
as Warren Christopher
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging cha...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
as Professor Harold Oxley
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a my...

Outlander
2008
as Rothgar
During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced te...

Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008
A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.

The Oxford Murders
2008
as Arthur Seldom
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb...

Boxes
2007
as Fanny's father
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives ...

Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron
2007
as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)
When Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are assigned to investigate the ghost-infested mansion of a publicity-hound billionaire, they uncover a plot...

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas ...

Interview with John Hurt
2007
as Self
The actor of John Merrick answers questions about the work on "The Elephant Man"

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest pe...

Whaledreamers
2006
as Self
"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an incre...

The Plot Against Harold Wilson
2006
as Narrator (voice)
When Harold Wilson suddenly resigned as Labour prime minister resigned in 1976, most assumed there was a scandalous explanation. Eventually, rumours b...

Shooting Dogs
2006
as Christopher
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in dan...

V for Vendetta
2006
as Adam Sutler
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...

The Proposition
2005
as Jellon Lamb
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...

Once Upon a Halloween
2005
as The Horned King
On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer Halloween, and asks her cauldron to show you sever...

Hiroshima
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test ...

The Skeleton Key
2005
as Ben Devereaux
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Manderlay
2005
as Narrator (voice)
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...

Valiant
2005
as Felix (voice)
Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon...

Short Order
2005
SHORT ORDER tells a story so vibrantly sumptuous each still could be served as its own meal. Amidst the quaint Parisian street night, Fifi Koko runs a...

Shadowing the Third Man
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the production of The Third Man (1949).

Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
2004
as Self
A comprehensive look at the history of the Hellboy character from his comic book roots through to his movie debut.

Pride
2004
as Harry (voice)
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.

Hellboy
2004
as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is takin...

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".

The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them on...

Dogville
2003
as Narrator (voice)
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...

Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2003
as Man from Maybury Hill
Short film combining the true life event of Che Guevara's stopover at Shannon Airport with Science Fiction elements involving the Invisible Man.

Owning Mahowny
2003
as Victor Foss
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Tor...

The Alien Saga
2002
as Narrator (voice)
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. T...
The Twilight Hour: Visions of Ireland's Haunted Past
2002
as Self
Since the dawn of history, people have believed in the existence of some form of ghosts. THE TWILIGHT HOUR is an unsettling encounter with the Celtic ...

I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

Crime and Punishment
2002
as Porfiry, chief investigator
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

Bait
2002
as Jack Blake
When Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by the daughter's resemblance to his own murdered ...

Miranda
2002
as Christian
A librarian begins a passionate affair with a mysterious woman who walks into his library. When she suddenly disappears he travels down to London to s...

Shaolin: Wheel of Life
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Have you ever done a handstand... on the tips of your index fingers? How about snapping iron bars over your head as if they were bread-sticks? You'll ...

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
2001
as Self
This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections about...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Mr. Ollivander
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with ...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Dr. Iannis
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
2001
as Narrator (voice)
"Hidden Wars of Desert Storm" looks at the origins of the Gulf War crisis and challenges the official Western "party-line" view of a spontaneous crusa...

Tabloid
2001
as Vince
A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own.

Lost Souls
2000
as Father Lareaux
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

Krapp's Last Tape
2000
as Krapp
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the ...

The Tigger Movie
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Rabbit are preparing a suitable winter home for Eeyore, the perennially dejected donkey, but Tigger's co...

New Blood
1999
as Alan White
Alan White is a desperate man; his daughter must have a heart transplant to live. He gets an unexpected visit from his adult son, Danny, a criminal wh...

You're Dead...
1999
as Maitland
A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.

If... Dog... Rabbit
1999
as Sean Cooper
Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live...

All the Little Animals
1999
as Mr. Summers
An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old...

Love and Death on Long Island
1998
as Giles De'Ath
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E....

The Climb
1998
as Chuck Langer
Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty c...

The Commissioner
1998
as James morton
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...

Night Train
1998
as Michael Poole
A man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go into hiding from the gangster's men. He moves into...

Bandyta
1997
as Babits
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

Contact
1997
as S. R. Hadden
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and ...

Tender Loving Care
1996
as Dr. Turner
A worried husband hires a beautiful psychotherapist to nurse his delusional wife and help her deal with the death of their child in a car accident. Ho...

Dead Man
1995
as John Scholfield
William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a jou...
Saigon Baby
1995
as Jack Lee
Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme in Vietnam

Wild Bill
1995
as Charley Prince
Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and ...
On Jupiter
1995
as Narrator (voice)
This 54 minute program - narrated by actor John Hurt - chronicles the story of Jupiter starting with Galileo Galilei's Jupiter observations in the 160...

Rob Roy
1995
as John Graham
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy ...

Two Nudes Bathing
1995
as Marquis de Prey
Originally produced for the Showtime anthology series Picture Windows and screened at the Cannes Film Festival, this whimsical British short speculate...

Divine Rapture
1995
Divine Rapture is an unfinished film starring Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger, and John Hurt. In a remote village in Ireland a woman dies onl...

The World of Jim Henson
1994
as The Storyteller (archive footage)
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to a...

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

Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
1994
as Narrator (voice)
This enchanted tale is based on "One Thousand and One Nights" where a young rogue receives wishes from a genie and wins The Sultan's daughter.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as The Countess
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Rex Goodyear
The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journ...

Thumbelina
1994
as Mr. Mole (voice)
Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to ...

Monolith
1993
as Villano
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't...

Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Father
Adaptation of Pirandello's play.

Dark at Noon
1992
as Anthony / Le Marquis
In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased ...

Red Fox
1991
as Archie Carpenter
“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay b...

I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991
as Boorman's Alter Ego
Film about the influences in director John Boorman's life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains surround...
Journey to Knock
1991
as Alfred
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

Lapse of Memory
1991
as Conrad Farmer
After a terrible accident, a psychatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks we learn that his family had to flee from New York afte...

King Ralph
1991
as Lord Percival Graves
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool
1990
as Narrator (voice)
This MPL documentary is about Paul McCartney's World Tour '90. It focuses on all the organization which was set up for this tour and also features som...

Frankenstein Unbound
1990
as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the p...

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990
as Self
A 1990 documentary presented by Jonathan Ross, in which he interviewed filmmaker David Lynch.

The Field
1990
as Bird' O'Donnell
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell...

Resident Alien
1990
as Self - Actor
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp a...

Windprints
1990
as Charles Rutherford
A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.

Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as Chris Mullin
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...

Romeo.Juliet
1990
as La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been ...

Little Sweetheart
1989
as Robert Burger
A criminal couple, hiding out on a remote property, become the unwitting victims of a blackmail plot by the most unlikely of conspirators.

Scandal
1989
as Stephen Ward
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through ...

David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who ...

The Bengali Night
1988
as Lucien Metz
Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and da...

Deadline
1988
as Granville Jones
In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a poli...

White Mischief
1987
as Gilbert Colville
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the...

Vincent
1987
as (voice)
A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.

Spaceballs
1987
as John Hurt
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless side...

Aria
1987
as The Actor
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each s...
The Hunting of the Snark
1987
as The Narrator (voice)
This is a musical by Mike Batt based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem. Mike Batt conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.

From the Hip
1987
as Douglas Benoit
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a p...

Iceberg
1987
as Narrator (voice)
With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept production des...

Monolith
1987
as Narrator (voice)
John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow mot...
Frightmares
1987
John Hurt, the Master of Suspense, brings you three spine-chilling stories from his Theatre of Terror!
Rocinante
1986
as Bill
England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests ...

Thames Film
1986
This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the ...

Jake Speed
1986
as Syd
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves live...

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
as Narrator (voice)
A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

The Black Cauldron
1985
as The Horned King (voice)
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracu...

Live Aid
1985
as Self
Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United State...

After Darkness
1985
as Peter Hunningford
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to b...

Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
as Winston Smith
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Hit
1984
as Braddock
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution...

Success Is the Best Revenge
1984
as Dino Montecurva
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the ...

Champions
1984
as Bob Champion
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Sunset People
1984
as Self
Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous by Philip Marlowe in the Chandler books....

The Osterman Weekend
1983
as Lawrence Fassett
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy...

King Lear
1983
as The Fool
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

The Plague Dogs
1982
as Snitter (voice)
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search partie...
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
1982

Partners
1982
as Kerwin
Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as hi...

Night Crossing
1982
as Peter Strelzyk
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story...

History of the World: Part I
1981
as Jesus - The Roman Empire
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

Heaven's Gate
1980
as Billy Irvine
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished imm...

The Elephant Man
1980
as John Merrick
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...
An Evening with Quentin Crisp
1980
as Host
In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).

Alien
1979
as Kane
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew...

The Lord of the Rings
1978
as Aragorn (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

Watership Down
1978
as Hazel (voice)
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a ...

Midnight Express
1978
as Max
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 y...

The Shout
1978
as Anthony Fielding
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learne...

The Disappearance
1977
as Atkinson
The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with he...

East of Elephant Rock
1977
as Nash
In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
as Lt. George Simmonds
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with t...

Spectre
1977
as Mitri Cyon
An occult criminologist investigates a businessman who dabbles in the black arts while trying to survive against a powerful demon and an evil cult.

Stream Line
1976
as Chandler
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrus...

The Peddler
1976
as Alec Cassell
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can he...

The Naked Civil Servant
1975
as Quentin Crisp
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

The Ghoul
1975
as Tom Rawlings
A former clergyman in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
as Malcolm Scrawdyke
An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual d...
The Playboy of the Western World
1974
as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)
A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and prais...

The Pied Piper
1972
as Franz
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter...

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
as Richard Forbush
Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accep...

10 Rillington Place
1971
as Timothy Evans
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justic...
RHM Mother's Pride Supermarket Raid 87670
1971
as Narrator
Advertising film for bread.

In Search of Gregory
1969
as Daniel
Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a ...

Sinful Davey
1969
as Davey Haggart
A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally de...

Before Winter Comes
1969
as Lieutenant Pilkington
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British...

The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
as John
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years...

A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Richard Rich
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy de...

This Is My Street
1964
as Charlie
A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

The Wild and the Willing
1962
as Phil Corbett
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play '...