Mel Brooks hailed him as a 'truly magnificent talent' while Harry Potter author JK Rowling called him 'immensely talented and deeply beloved'. Sir John was well known for roles including Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, the title role in The Elephant Man and wand merchant Mr Ollivander in the Harry Potter films. He touched all our lives with joy and magic and it will be a strange world without him.' Mrs Hurt added: 'John was the most sublime of actors and the most gentlemanly of gentlemen with the greatest of hearts and the most generosity of spirit. His widow, Anwen Hurt, today said it will be 'a strange world' with out the actor, whose death has prompted an outpouring of grief from the showbusiness industry, with director Mel Brooks and J K Rowling among those paying tribute. The star, one of Britain's most treasured actors, died aged 77 at his home in Norfolk after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, it was revealed today. Sir John Hurt, who won Oscar nominations for the Elephant Man and captured the hearts of millions for his roles in Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, has died. But it was not a way of life. Otherwise I wouldn't have the CV I've got, would I?' he has previously said.īut he turned his life around later on in life, and married his current wife ten years ago.įarewell to a Hollywood legend: Sir John Hurt, who starred in The Elephant Man and Harry Potter, dies aged 77 after a battle with cancer as tributes pour in to 'the most gentlemanly of gentlemen' 'If I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible. He had appeared in 1984, a movie about George Orwell's book, the year after the death of his fiancee, which was praised by the critics.īut living his life so publicly and those days of heavy drinking have helped him with such an illustrious career, he believes. The marriage was followed by a seven-year relationship with Dublin-born presenter and writer Sarah Owens.Īnd despite his partying and drinking in the previous decades, he was still one of the biggest names in Hollywood, responsible for some of its most acclaimed performances. They had met on the set of Scandal and had two sons, Alexander 'Sasha' John Vincent Hurt and Nick Hurt, but divorced in 1996. Hurt and Donna Peacock moved to Kenya but divorced in January 1990, just days before he married his third wife American production assistant Joan Dalton. It was actually his second marriage after wedding actress Annette Robertson in 1962, which lasted just two years before the pair got divorced. The year after it happened, Hurt married an old friend, American actress Donna Peacock, at a local Register Office, in September 1984.
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