William Hurt
20 March, 1950
| 1.88 m
Actor
Producer
Biography
William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his supporting role in David Cronenberg's Historia przemocy (2005). Hurt received Best Supporting Actor accolades for the role from the Los Angeles Film Critics circle and the New York Film Critics Circle.Hurt spent the early years of his career on the stage between drama school, summer stock, regional repertory and off-Broadway, appearing in more than fifty productions including "Henry V", "5th of July", "Hamlet", "Uncle Vanya", "Richard II", "Hurlyburly" (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award), "My Life" (winning an Obie Award for Best Actor), "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" and "Good". For radio, Hurt read Paul Theroux's "The Grand Railway Bazaar", for the BBC Radio Four and "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx. He has recorded "The Polar Express", "The Boy Who Drew Cats", "The Sun Also Rises" and narrated the documentaries, "Searching for America: The Odyssey of John Dos Passos", "Einstein-How I See the World" and the English narration of Elie Wiesel's "To Speak the Unspeakable", a documentary directed and produced by Pierre Marmiesse. In 1988, Hurt was awarded the first Spencer Tracy Award from UCLA.
Movies
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
A well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.
The Robinson family was going into space to fight for a chance for humanity. Now they are fighting to live long enough to find a way home.
Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true. But that's not the only surprise.
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
A Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalie (Tracey Ullman). He's also a serial womanizer. Rosalie goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating.
A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.
Jane Eyre, an orphan, is raised in a harsh charity school. She becomes a teacher and is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall by housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax. The plot revolves around her experiences there.
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father Dave, whom he's never met. He is the pastor at a Christian community church. He tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion lia... Read all