John Hurt

Sir John Hurt (1940-2017) was an English actor whose career lasted more than five decades. He first drew wide attention in A Man for All Seasons (1966) and went on to play in Midnight Express (1978), Alien (1979), The Elephant Man (1980) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).

He received two Academy Award nominations, won several BAFTA awards, and was knighted in 2015 for services to drama. Later audiences knew him as Ollivander in the Harry Potter films, and in V for Vendetta (2006) and Snowpiercer (2013). He appears in Hercules (2014).