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Mine is Winston Smith.

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    Edward_de_Vere — 16 years ago(January 04, 2010 08:27 AM)

    One of his best performances was as Max in MIDNIGHT EXPRESS.

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      theninthgate — 16 years ago(January 05, 2010 07:48 AM)

      Giles D'eath in "Love and Death on Long Island."

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        Edward_de_Vere — 16 years ago(January 11, 2010 09:08 AM)

        Giles D'eath in "Love and Death on Long Island."
        That's also one of his best performances, especially how he makes an otherwise pathetic character (a celebrity stalker, basically) completely sympathetic and likeable.

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          MrsAlSwearengen — 16 years ago(January 11, 2010 10:12 AM)

          I loved Giles D'eath, too - one of the most interesting characters I've ever seen on film. John Hurt did a beautiful job of creating him.
          Noli illegitimi carborundum

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            theninthgate — 16 years ago(January 11, 2010 01:29 PM)

            He is fantastic, isn't he? I was so looking forward to "No One Gets Off In This Town," in which Richard Kwietniowski was supposed to work with John Hurt again (the rest of the cast planned sounds fabulous, too). Alas, that project will probably die a development-hell death, because, apparently, Kwietniowski is not working on this film anymore, and the producers are incapable of financing it.

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              hachmom-1 — 16 years ago(February 12, 2010 10:03 AM)

              1 John Merrick
              2 Caligula
              3 Quentin Crisp
              4 The Fool in Olivier's Lear
              5 Winston Smith
              and just for kicks and giggles i love his cameo in History of the World
              It is not our abilities that make us who we areit is our choices

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                theninthgate — 16 years ago(March 07, 2010 08:09 AM)

                And an update on "No One Gets Off In This Town": dead as a movie project, but the producers claim it will be rewritten for a two parter TV project. I have no idea whether John Hurt is still attached, though.

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                  Mr_Beale — 16 years ago(February 12, 2010 08:48 PM)

                  John Merrick
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                    Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 16 years ago(March 01, 2010 01:59 PM)

                    I'll have to agree with
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                    and say "Too many to pick from and so very many of them excellent performances."


                    Have you noticed that in Shakespeare's plays soothsayers said the sooth, the whole sooth, and nothing but the sooth?


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                      naillon-2 — 16 years ago(March 05, 2010 03:01 AM)

                      I agree - he's sheer brilliance, and I've never seen him give a bad performance, an indifferent one, or an awkward one. He's always the best.
                      Among my favorites are:
                      Max (Midnight Express)
                      John (really Joseph) Merrick (The Elephant Man)
                      Richard Rich (A Man for all Seasons)
                      Marquis of Montrose (Rob Roy)

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                        juglettee — 16 years ago(March 14, 2010 03:20 PM)

                        I liked Winston the best. He looked like a working drudge in that movie.
                        Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

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                          am_buglet_82 — 15 years ago(August 11, 2010 12:54 AM)

                          "The Elephant Man" is my favorite John Hurt movie, followed closely by "The Naked Civil Servant".
                          -Amanda
                          "She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"

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                              chinesemonk12 — 15 years ago(November 25, 2010 02:51 AM)

                              I don't know how you've guys left out Braddock in "The Hit".
                              He is such a cold and interesting killer.

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                                SGJan81 — 14 years ago(July 19, 2011 02:28 PM)

                                I just re-watched "10 Rillington Place". He deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of the pitiful "Evans".
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                                  oybth — 13 years ago(May 04, 2012 12:44 AM)

                                  I still remember the moment I first saw him on screen, as Rich, in "A Man for All Seasons".
                                  My favorite, is Timothy John Evans. Tonight I saw it for the fourth, or fifth time.
                                  There are many others, of course, even "Partners".

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                                    fanaticita — 10 years ago(August 19, 2015 05:33 PM)

                                    I saw him recently in The Hit, with Terence Stamp and Tim Roth. It was an amazing film, and John Hurt was a very subdued gangster psycho. Great acting by all, and a fantastic story.

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                                      shepardjessica-1 — 10 years ago(November 21, 2015 02:34 PM)

                                      John Merrick

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                                        Yellowstonefan29 — 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 11:56 PM)

                                        1984
                                        Alien
                                        The Hit
                                        Midnight Express
                                        The Elephant Man

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