Dies british actor John Hurt – the State of Minas

The british actor John Hurt died on Friday at the age of 77 years, after a long struggle against a cancer of the pancreas, according to the british press in the early hours of this Saturday.

Revealed in 1978 for his role in “The Midnight Express”, Hurt was known for his performances in “The Elephant Man” and “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, among other hits.

Oscar Nominee for Best Supporting Actor for “The Midnight Express” and Best Actor for “The Elephant Man”, Hurt has revealed that she suffered from pancreatic cancer in June of 2015, but still continued acting.

Born on 22 January 1940 in the English Chesterfield, the Huntress left her career as a teacher of the arts to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

After a series of small roles on TV, Hurt debuted on the stages of the british in 1962, with Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger, and then immediately acted in his first feature, “A Cry of Revolt”.

In 1966 did the baron Richard Rich in the classic “The Man Who Sold His Soul”, Fred Zinnemann, who opened the doors of Hollywood.

With the “Midnight Express” was nominated for the academy award for actor in a supporting role in the film of Alan Parker about an american detained in a prison Turkish.

After having his chest blown up by an extraterrestrial creature in “Alien, the Eighth Passenger”, Hurt was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for “The Man-Elephant”, in the role of John Merrick, born with a severe physical strain and displayed in a circus in the 19th century.

As Mr. Ollivander, the owner of the shop magic wands in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, 2001, Hurt had its first blockbuster, a phenomenon that was repeated in “The Deathly hallows – Part 1″, 2010, and in the wake of the saga, in 2011.

Versatile and reliable, the Huntress, he was also in “Hellboy” (2004), “V for Vendetta”, 2005, “Indiana Jones – The Secret of the Crystal Skull”, 2008, and in “The Express of Tomorrow”, 2013.

But it was as the War Doctor in the popular british series Doctor Who, between 2013 and 2014, which he won definitively with the public at large.