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'Everyone told me not to do it,' he said. 'We are all victims, in one way or another,' he told me at that time, 'and eventually we pay for it with our lives.'įour years later, against all advice, Hurt accepted the role of Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, which elevated him to stardom. His greatest early performance came in 1971 in 10 Rillington Place, as the hapless, neurotic, unstable and mentally retarded Timothy Evans, who is hanged for a murder that was really committed by the necrophile John Christie. His first truly notable film was Fred Zinnemann's A Man For All Seasons, in which Hurt played the scheming, dishonest Rich, who, in return for political advancement, gives false evidence of treason against Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield).

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Hurt starred in more than 200 films and television series over six decades. Hurt waited but no child arrived, and after 18 months they parted. In the same year, he married for the first time, at 22, the actress Annette Robertson, who allegedly told him she was pregnant. It set the style for the whole of his early career, as one of the least macho actors to have risen to any form of stardom in Britain.

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Hurt said this experience affected him 'hugely'.Īt his secondary school in Lincoln, the headmaster laughed in his face when Hurt told him he wanted to be an actor and said he 'wouldn't stand a chance'.īut he eventually won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and had his first screen role in 1962 in The Wild And The Willing, as a student who doesn't play rugger and can't sink a full pint of beer. At St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, he had his first acting role - as a girl in the school production of The Bluebird.Īt St Michael's, he was sexually abused by the senior master, the late Donald Cormack, who would remove his two false front teeth before forcing his tongue into Hurt's mouth, then rub his face with his stubble. He was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coalmining village near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, the youngest of the three children of Phyllis Massey, a one-time actress, and Arnould Hurt, an Anglican vicar and mathematician, with whom his relationship was distant in the extreme.Īs a child he became entranced by watching Alec Guinness's screen performance as Fagin in the film of Oliver Twist. To put it mildly, Hurt's life was strange from the start. The cycle of life is lemonade and boys, to beer and fast cars, to whisky and women, and finishing up with port and boys, so I don't know. It was masturbatory, not penetratory, if that's a word. 'I think I went through what could be called a classic Greek cycle, from monosexuality to homosexuality to heterosexuality,' he said.

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Others included mad Roman Emperor Caligula in I, Claudius, in 1976 Fred, the gay cop in Partners, opposite Ryan O'Neal in 1982 the middle-aged writer who falls in love with a young movie star (Jason Priestley) in Love And Death On Long Island, in 1997 and a reprise of Quentin Crisp in An Englishman In New York, in 2009.įour times married, and thrice divorced, he was asked if these extraordinarily convincing performances arose from any sexual confusion in his own life. He BECAME a star on television playing the outrageously flamboyant homosexual Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, in 1975, only one of a number of gay roles he performed on screen. He made his name playing flawed, inadequate and sometimes sexually confused men, and often the character that emerged on screen seemed to have borrowed heavily from the ordeals and afflictions of his astonishing private life. It was indeed, for Hurt himself had been a chronic alcoholic for years, and his frequently wild and disordered existence had been crammed full of ironies. He appeared tired, frail and emaciated, but the wry black humour for which he was noted throughout his 55-year career came to the fore when he described one of his latest projects - a Radio 4 recording of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Keith Waterhouse's play about an alcoholic writer - as 'one of life's small ironies'. 'However little time now remains,' he told me, 'I shall go on working until they carry me out. For although he had vowed 18 months ago, when he revealed his illness, to carry on working while undergoing treatment, he knew perfectly well, as he confessed to me at the time, that his chances of survival were slim. He must have realised he was filming his own obituary.

In one of his final screen roles in That Good Night, yet to be released, he bravely mirrored his own circumstances by portraying a man in his 70s who is terminally ill. There was also an infinite poignancy to the last difficult months of the life of John Hurt, who has died at 77 after a valiant battle against pancreatic cancer. John Hurt was a man who believed in living at full throttle, and he faced death as he faced life - with optimism and courage of the most sublime order, says Michael Thornton