Date 28/01/2017 - News People
His agent told the BBC News, John Hurt, the British film actor and two-time Oscar nominee, has died at the age of 77. He had been treated for pancreatic cancer.
Hurt was best known for playing John Merrick in ?The Elephant Man," a kind-hearted man who?s feared by society because of his severe physical deformity. The acclaimed 1980 film was directed by David Lynch.
Hurt?s decades-long career also included a three-episode arc as the War Doctor in BBC?s ?Doctor Who.? His performance in the 1978 prison drama ?Midnight Express,? was nominated for an Academy Award. He played wand-maker Mr. Ollivander in three ?Harry Potter? films. Hurt had an especially memorable death scene in Ridley Scott?s 1979 sci-fi classic ?Alien.?
