John Hurt

Q: Did John Hurt win any major awards?

Yes, John Hurt received numerous awards, including two Academy Award nominations for 'Midnight Express' and 'The Elephant Man.' He also won BAFTA Awards and was honored with a Golden Globe.

Q: What was John Hurt's first film?

John Hurt's first film was 'The Wild and the Willing' released in 1962. This marked the beginning of his extensive and varied film career.

Q: What are some of John Hurt's most successful films?

Some of John Hurt's most successful films include 'The Elephant Man,' 'Alien,' and 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.' His performances in these films are highly regarded.

Q: What can you tell me about John Hurt's personal life?

John Hurt was married twice, first to actress Annette Rycroft and later to Anwen Rees-Myers. He had three children and was known for being private about his personal life.

Q: What is John Hurt's estimated net worth?

John Hurt's estimated net worth was around $30 million at the time of his passing. His successful acting career contributed significantly to this fortune.

Q: What are some milestones in John Hurt's filmography?

Key milestones in John Hurt's filmography include his roles in 'The Elephant Man' (1980), 'Alien' (1979), and 'The Hit' (1984). He also enjoyed a successful stage career.

Q: What legacy did John Hurt leave behind?

John Hurt left behind a legacy of exceptional performances and diverse roles that influenced many actors. His work continues to be celebrated, and he is remembered as a legendary figure in cinema.

Known for

Alien (1979)

IMDb 8.5 / 10

1979 / Horror, Sci-Fi / 117 min

The crew of the Nostromo intercept a distress call from a deserted planet but soon wish they hadn't when they encounter a merciless monster...

Snowpiercer (2013)

IMDb 7.1 / 10

2013 / Action, Drama / 126 min

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train...

Name

John Hurt

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

Spouses

Anwen Rees-Myers (2005–2017)

Children

3 children, including Alexander Hurt

Parents

Hugh Hurt, Phyllis Hurt

Estimated Net Worth

$30 million

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2015	Movie Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But...	The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	TV The Last Panthers The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart of Europe where a...	Tom	TMDB 5.8 / 10
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2014	Movie Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard...	Self	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2014	Movie Hercules When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming...	Cotys	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	Movie Only Lovers Left Alive A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival...	Christopher Marlowe	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2013	Movie Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England;...	The War Doctor	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2013	Movie The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy...	The War Doctor (archive voice)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2013	Movie Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
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2012	Movie Sightseers Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday...	Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2012	TV Labyrinth Jumping back and forth between modern and medieval France, the lives of two women separated by centuries, are united in their search for...	Audric Baillard	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2012	Movie Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers Adapted from the multi-award winning BBC1 series, Planet Dinosaur 3D recreates the lost world of the dinosaurs in a groundbreaking...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2012	Movie More Than Honey With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees...	Narrator (english voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
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2012	TV Playhouse Presents Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on...	The Ministry (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
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2011	Movie The Journey – Stories from the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa	Narrator	Not rated
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2011	TV Human Planet A cinematic experience bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world. Humans and wildlife surviving in the most...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
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2010	Movie Behind Jim Jarmusch "Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his...	Self	Not rated
2010	Movie A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy races across the beach to the ocean while avoiding...	Grandpa Sammy (voice)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
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2009	Movie The Gruffalo The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators...	Owl (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2009	Movie Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
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2008	Movie Lecture 21 A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode...	Mondrian Kilroy	TMDB 6.1 / 10
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2004	Movie Shadowing the Third Man Documentary about the production of The Third Man (1949).	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
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2002	Movie I, Claudius: A Television Epic The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
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2002	TV Edge of the Universe	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
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2001	Movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th...	Mr. Ollivander	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2001	Movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with...	Dr. Iannis	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm "Hidden Wars of Desert Storm" looks at the origins of the Gulf War crisis and challenges the official Western "party-line"...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2001	Movie Tabloid A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his...	Vince	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2000	Movie Lost Souls A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To...	Father Lareaux	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2000	Movie Krapp's Last Tape In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his...	Krapp	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2000	Movie The Tigger Movie Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Rabbit are preparing a suitable winter home for Eeyore, the perennially dejected...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie New Blood Alan White is a desperate man; his daughter must have a heart transplant to live. He gets an unexpected visit...	Alan White	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1999	Movie You're Dead... A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.	Maitland	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1999	Movie If... Dog... Rabbit Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from...	Sean Cooper	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1999	TV Watership Down Follows the lives of a group of rabbits as they leave their endangered warren in search of a safe new...	General Woundwort (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1999	Movie All the Little Animals An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has...	Mr. Summers	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1998	Movie Love and Death on Long Island Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for...	Giles De'Ath	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1998	Movie The Climb Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's...	Chuck Langer	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1998	Movie The Commissioner John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels...	James morton	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	TV Parkinson Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.	Self	Not rated
1998	Movie Night Train A man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go...	Michael Poole	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie Brute Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside...	Babits	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1997	Movie Contact A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to...	S. R. Hadden	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1996	Movie Tender Loving Care A worried husband hires a beautiful psychotherapist to nurse his delusional wife and help her deal with the death of...	Dr. Turner	TMDB 2.9 / 10
1995	Movie Dead Man On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey...	John Scholfield	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1995	Movie Saigon Baby Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme...	Jack Lee	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1995	Movie Wild Bill Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation...	Charley Prince	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1995	TV Picture Windows Famous paintings come to life to tell a story by renowned authors, directed by world class directors.	Marquis de Prey	TMDB 10.0 / 10
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1995	Movie Rob Roy In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future,...	John Graham	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1995	Movie Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows" and screened at Cannes, "Two Nudes Bathing" playfully imagines the scandalous origins of...	Marquis de Prey	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1994	Movie The World of Jim Henson In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second...	The Storyteller (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1994	Movie Second Best The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.	Uncle Turpin	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie Rabbit Ears - Aladdin and the Magic Lamp This enchanted tale is based on "One Thousand and One Nights" where a young rogue receives wishes from a genie...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	TV Inside the Actors Studio James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	Movie Even Cowgirls Get the Blues A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.	The Countess	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1994	Movie Great Moments in Aviation The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart...	Rex Goodyear	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1994	Movie Thumbelina Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet...	Mr. Mole (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	Movie Monolith Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless...	Villano	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1993	TV GMTV GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie Six Characters in Search of An Author Adaptation of Pirandello's play.	The Father	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1992	Movie Dark at Noon In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War....	Anthony / Le Marquis	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1991	Movie Red Fox “Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour,...	Archie Carpenter	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1991	Movie I Dreamt I Woke Up John Boorman reflects on the personal influences shaping his life and films in this short work, blending family, neighbors, and...	Boorman's Alter Ego	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	The Father	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	Movie Journey to Knock Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in...	Alfred	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1991	Movie Lapse of Memory After a terrible accident, a psychatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks we learn that his...	Conrad Farmer	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1991	Movie King Ralph As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of...	Lord Percival Graves	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	Movie Paul McCartney: From Rio to Liverpool This MPL documentary is about Paul McCartney's World Tour '90. It focuses on all the organization which was set up...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1990	Movie Frankenstein Unbound The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind...	Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1990	Movie Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch Hot off Wild at Heart (1990), winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Johnathan Ross interviews filmmaker David Lynch and his...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1990	Movie The Field "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow...	Bird' O'Donnell	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	Movie Resident Alien At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York....	Self - Actor	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1990	Movie Windprints A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.	Charles Rutherford	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1990	Movie Who Bombed Birmingham? Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham...	Chris Mullin	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1990	Movie Romeo.Juliet The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a...	La Dame aux Chats / Mercutio (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1989	Movie Poison Candy A criminal couple, hiding out on a remote property, become the unwitting victims of a blackmail plot by the most...	Robert Burger	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1989	TV The Jim Henson Hour An hour-long anthology series hosted by Jim Henson and generally included two segments. The first, MuppeTelevision, features comedy skits starring...	The Storyteller (archive footage)	TMDB 8.9 / 10
1989	Movie Scandal An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves...	Stephen Ward	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1989	Movie David Macaulay: Pyramid How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision?...	Khufu / Second French Explorer (voice)	Not rated
1988	Movie The Bengali Night Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra...	Lucien Metz	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1988	Movie The Storyteller: The True Bride A white lion comes to the aid of a girl being held under the cruel care of a troll.	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant On the whole, giants are benign creatures, harmless to none, unless of course the giant hasn't a heart. A curious...	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie The Storyteller: Sapsorrow A beautiful princess seeking to escape an arranged marriage, flees to a distant kingdom and disguises herself as a loathsome...	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie The Storyteller: Hans My Hedgehog A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon...	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie The Storyteller: A Story Short The Storyteller recounts the time he was caught making a fool of the royal cook and, as punishment meted out...	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie The Storyteller: The Luck Child Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks...	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie The Storyteller: Fearnot A carefree, absent-minded boy who is never scared goes on a strange journey to discover fear.	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	TV The Storyteller The Storyteller, aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.	The Storyteller	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1988	Movie The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death Because of kind acts toward three beggars, an honest soldier returning from war is given a magical sack, an unbeatable...	The Storyteller	Not rated
1988	Movie Deadline In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the...	Granville Jones	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie White Mischief A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent...	Gilbert Colville	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1987	Movie Vincent A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.	(voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1987	Movie Spaceballs When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr...	John Hurt	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1987	Movie Aria Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg....	The Actor	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1987	Movie The Hunting of the Snark This is a musical by Mike Batt based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem. Mike Batt conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.	The Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	Movie From the Hip Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his...	Douglas Benoit	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1987	Movie Monolith John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1987	Movie Iceberg With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1987	Movie Frightmares John Hurt, the Master of Suspense, brings you three spine-chilling stories from his Theatre of Terror!	Unknown character	Not rated
1986	Movie Rocinante England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that...	Bill	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1986	Movie Thames Film Experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea.	Narrator	Not rated
1986	TV ScreenPlay Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one...	Alfred	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	Movie Jake Speed Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic...	Syd	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1985	Movie The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1985	Movie The Black Cauldron Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming...	The Horned King (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1985	Movie Live Aid Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy...	Self	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1985	Movie After Darkness To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide...	Peter Hunningford	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Jack Lee	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Rex Goodyear	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1984	Movie Nineteen Eighty-Four Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional...	Winston Smith	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1984	Movie The Hit Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened...	Braddock	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1984	Movie Success Is the Best Revenge Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will...	Dino Montecurva	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1984	Movie Champions The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National	Bob Champion	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1984	Movie Sunset People Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1983	TV Natural World Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its...	Narrator	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1983	Movie The Osterman Weekend The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a...	Lawrence Fassett	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1983	Movie King Lear An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest...	The Fool	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1982	Movie The Plague Dogs Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They're pursued...	Snitter (voice)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1982	Movie Paul McCartney - Take It Away	Self	Not rated
1982	Movie Partners After a series of murders in Los Angeles's gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover...	Kerwin	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1982	Movie Night Crossing Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take...	Peter Strelzyk	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1981	Movie History of the World: Part I An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and...	Jesus - The Roman Empire	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1980	Movie Heaven's Gate Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict...	Billy Irvine	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1980	Movie The Elephant Man A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous...	John Merrick	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1980	Movie An Evening with Quentin Crisp In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).	Host	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1979	Movie Alien During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member...	Kane	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1979	TV Crime and Punishment Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is...	Rodion Raskolnikov	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Lord of the Rings Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by...	Aragorn (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1978	Movie Watership Down When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and...	Hazel (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1978	Movie Midnight Express Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of...	Max	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1978	Movie The Shout A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of...	Anthony Fielding	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1977	Movie The Disappearance The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit,...	Atkinson	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1977	Movie East of Elephant Rock In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.	Nash	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1977	TV The Hollywood Greats Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1977	Movie Three Dangerous Ladies Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film...	Lt. George Simmonds	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1977	TV The Sunday Drama Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.	Dave	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1977	Movie Spectre An occult criminologist investigates a businessman who dabbles in the black arts while trying to survive against a powerful demon...	Mitri Cyon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1976	TV I, Claudius Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of...	Caligula	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1976	Movie Stream Line Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture....	Chandler	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie The Peddler One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair...	Alec Cassell	Not rated
1975	Movie The Naked Civil Servant Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his...	Quentin Crisp	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	March Hare	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1975	TV Shades of Greene Shades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author Graham Greene. The series...	Fred	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1975	TV Ten from the Twenties A series of short plays, all originally written in the 1920s.	Philip	Not rated
1975	Movie The Ghoul In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is...	Tom Rawlings	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1975	TV The Sweeney Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his...	Tony Grey	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1974	Movie Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near...	Malcolm Scrawdyke	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1974	TV NOVA PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies...	Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1974	Movie The Playboy of the Western World A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for...	Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1973	TV Wessex Tales An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.	Joshua Harlborough	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1972	Movie The Pied Piper Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's...	Franz	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1971	TV A Ghost Story for Christmas A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales...	James Parkin	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1971	Movie Green Julia Two university students, one a physiologist, the other an economist, have been sharing an apartment, but now one of them...	Bob	Not rated
1971	Movie Mr. Forbush and the Penguins A self-absorbed young biologist takes on a six-month research post in Antarctica to study a penguin colony. Alone in Shackleton’s...	Richard Forbush	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1971	Movie 10 Rillington Place The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced...	Timothy Evans	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1971	TV Great Performances The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical...	Narrator	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1970	TV Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970...	Alec Cassell	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1969	Movie In Search of Gregory Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins...	Daniel	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1969	Movie Sinful Davey A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood...	Davey Haggart	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1969	Movie Before Winter Comes Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between...	Lieutenant Pilkington	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1969	TV ITV Saturday Night Theatre Anthology series of dramatic works.	Bob	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	TV ITV Playhouse ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such...	Guy Beresford	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie The Sailor from Gibraltar Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she...	John	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1966	Movie A Man for All Seasons A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses...	Richard Rich	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1966	TV NET Playhouse NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark,...	Peter Heywood	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1965	TV Gideon's Way Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John...	Freddy Tisdale	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1964	TV Thursday Theatre Thursday Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1964–1965....	Orpheus	Not rated
1964	Movie This Is My Street A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.	Charlie	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1962	Movie The Wild and the Willing Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs...	Phil Corbett	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1961	TV Drama 61-67 Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated...	Private Briggs	Not rated
1961	TV Drama 61-67 Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated...	Tom	Not rated
1956	TV Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956...	Joe	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Nominee	TMDB 6.9 / 10

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Alien (1979)

Snowpiercer (2013)

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