# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hurt
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:00:56.337Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 22 January 1940, Hurt trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and broke through as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons (1966). He won a BAFTA for playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant (1975), then earned Academy Award nominations for Midnight Express (1978) and The Elephant Man (1980). The 1979 chestburster scene in Alien became cinema legend. Across five decades he moved between prestige (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Jackie) and franchise work (Harry Potter's Ollivander, the War Doctor in Doctor Who, Hellboy), lending his unmistakable rasp to Watership Down and narrating BBC's Human Planet. Knighted in 2015, he worked until the end — he died 25 January 2017, three days after his 77th birthday.