ACTOR

John Hurt

1940 - 2017

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Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors. Director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hurt has received more than 12,885,120 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). John Hurt is the 220th most popular actor (up from 223rd in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 310th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Actor.

John Hurt is most famous for his role as the War Doctor in the BBC series "Doctor Who". He is also well known for his roles in the films "The Elephant Man", "Alien", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "1984", "The Elephant Man", "V for Vendetta", "The Naked Civil Servant", "The Elephant Man", "Alien", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "1984", "The Elephant Man", "V for Vendetta", "The Naked Civil Servant", "The Elephant Man", "Alien", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "1984", "The Elephant Man", "V for Vendetta", "The Naked Civil Servant", "The Elephant Man", "Alien", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "1984", "The Elephant Man", "V for Vendetta", "The Naked Civil Servant".

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, John Hurt ranks 220 out of 13,578. Before him are Julie Andrews, Michelle Pfeiffer, Peter Sellers, James Hong, Maximilian Schell, and Jacqueline Bisset. After him are Laura Antonelli, Kim Basinger, Natalie Wood, Jessica Lange, Peter Fonda, and George Clooney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, John Hurt ranks 28. Before him are Joseph Brodsky, Michel Temer, Saparmurat Niyazov, Brian De Palma, Martin Sheen, and Joachim Gauck. After him are Pina Bausch, Peter Fonda, Abbas Kiarostami, Tony Tan, Giorgio Moroder, and Kip Thorne. Among people deceased in 2017, John Hurt ranks 20. Before him are Zbigniew Brzezinski, Liliane Bettencourt, Jerry Lewis, Jeanne Moreau, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Mireille Darc. After him are Hugh Hefner, Manuel Noriega, Johnny Hallyday, Slobodan Praljak, Simone Veil, and Glen Campbell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hurt ranks 319 out of 8,785. Before him are Vivienne Westwood (1941), Frederick Sanger (1918), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Stanley Matthews (1915), Arthur Harden (1865), and Jon Lord (1941). After him are Ian Gillan (1945), Edmund Ironside (993), Edmund I (921), Frederick Soddy (1877), James V of Scotland (1512), and Bonnie Tyler (1951).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, John Hurt ranks 37. Before him are Timothy Dalton (1946), David Suchet (1946), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), Julie Andrews (1935), Peter Sellers (1925), and Jacqueline Bisset (1944). After him are Robbie Coltrane (1950), Ian McShane (1942), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Angela Lansbury (1925), Alan Bates (1934), and Emma Thompson (1959).

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Television and Movie Roles

Snowpiercer
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 travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Aug 1o 20136.906 / 10
V for Vendetta
Chancellor 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 British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Feb 23o 20067.899 / 10
Alien
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 discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
May 25o 19798.155 / 10