1984
Alien
The Hit
Midnight Express
The Elephant Man

John Merrick

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.

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".

I just re-watched "10 Rillington Place". He deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of the pitiful "Evans".
Yodi

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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"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"

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

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)

I'll have to agree with
JHOverkill
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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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.

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

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.

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.
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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.

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

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

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Marquess of Montrose in "Rob Roy" and Hazel in "Watership Down".

Quentin Crisp for now.

Caligula.
The dance. Omg, the Dance!

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