Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE, (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017) was an English character actor and Academy Award-nominee, who portrayed Garrick Ollivander in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and returned to the same role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and ...
Mr Ollivander is arguably the finest maker of wands in the world, and many foreigners travel to London to purchase one of his wands in preference to those on offer in their native lands.
That year he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and he died in 2017. Hurt's last roles were an elderly barfly in My Name Is Lenny, a terminally ill screenwriter in That Good Night, and the head of the Israeli intelligence agency in Damascus Cover, all of which premiered later that year.
His portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the TV play The Naked Civil Servant (1975) gave him prominence and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The following year, Hurt appeared as Anthony John Grey, a crooked computer programming expert in The Sweeney episode Tomorrow Man.
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Are William and John Hurt related?
He had English as well as German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. No relation to Sir John Hurt (Alien (1979), The Elephant Man (1980)), despite a popular misconception.
He was the voice of Aragron in The Lord of the Rings (1978), which featured Norman Bird as Bilbo, Christopher Guard as Frodo, and William Squire as Gandalf. In other films, Hurt went on to work with two other Gandalfs, Bilbos and Frodos, and one other Sam Gamgee.
Sir John Hurt, CBE (1940–2017) was an English actor and voice actor whose career spanned six decades. He had roles in over 130 films with dozens of television roles.
In one of his final roles, Hurt played opposite F. Murray Abraham in a standalone episode of Mythic Quest in 2021. Hurt had been set to appear in the series Pantheon and films The Fence, Men of Granite, and Edward Enderby before his death in March 2022, though he ultimately only appeared in Pantheon.
Hurt's was not a conventional incarnation of the Doctor; although Hurt portrayed the ninth in chronological order, he is officially known as the War Doctor.
Albus Dumbledore, for example, died when he was 115 years old, which was relatively young for a wizard. Nicholas Flamel and his wife lived more than 600 years thanks to the Philosopher's Stone, but regular wizards can live between 150 and 200 years. The Trolley Lady, for example, is around 190 years old.
Ollivander, it turns out, had not decamped or voluntarily joined the Death Eaters. Actually, they are holding Ollivander captive at Malfoy Manor. His screams are heard from the cellar below their meeting room, seemingly in response to Voldemort's statement that he, Voldemort, shall be the one to kill Harry Potter.
During his final confrontation with Voldemort, Harry knew that he (Harry) was the Elder Wand's true master. He again cast Expelliarmus, ejecting the wand from Voldemort's hand into his own as the Killing Curse rebounded off his body, fatally striking Voldemort.
In Harry's time, Garrick Ollivander was the shop's owner, who sold wands to all the Hogwarts students. It was here that Harry discovered his own wand, and also that it was closely connected to Lord Voldemort's - sharing the same phoenix feather core.
Pettigrew recovered Lord Voldemort's wand and went in search of its master, finding the Dark Lord in Albania. There, he helped the Dark Lord create a rudimentary body so he could travel and perform magic. It was then that Voldemort was reunited with his wand after his fall in Godric's Hollow.
He was 71. AILSA CHANG, HOST: William Hurt, the star of such popular 1980s films as "Children Of A Lesser God" and "Broadcast News," has died of complications from prostate cancer. He was 71.
He then appeared in the ensemble drama The Big Chill (1983). In 1986 he won an Academy Award for best actor for his portrayal of a gay prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).
Personal life. Hurt was married to actor William Hurt from 1971 to 1982. She married filmmaker Paul Schrader in 1983; the couple have a daughter and a son. She is close friends with fellow actress Glenn Close, who understudied her in the play Love for Love in 1974.
Candy publicly shared his experiences of living with severe anxiety and panic attacks. Candy died in his sleep at the age of 43, on March 4, 1994, in Durango City, Mexico, while filming Wagons East; a spokeswoman said that Candy's cause of death was a heart attack.
Cast. John Hurt as John Merrick, an intelligent, friendly, kindhearted man who is feared by most people in his society because of his severe deformity.
Why is Gandalf so weak? Gandalf, along with the other Istari, are essentially angels in human form. They were sent to Middle Earth to assist the free people in defeating Sauron. But they are forbidden, and actually prevented, from using their full powers.
Was anyone in both Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter?
John Hurt of Alien fame played Ollivander in the first Harry Potter movie, and had previously voiced Pantless Aragorn (he's the king of Arnor and Gondor and he just cannot find any goddamn pants) in the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings.
Sir John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017) was a English actor whose many roles included providing the voice of Aragorn in the Ralph Bakshi animated film The Lord of the Rings.
