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Post by stefy69 on Jan 28, 2017 7:49:05 GMT
So so sad to hear the news of John Jurt's passing this morning.
Always watchbale and at times brillant a one off.
Only saw him on stage once : A Month in the Country and he shone.
He will be greatly missed.
R I P
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Post by rumbledoll on Jan 28, 2017 8:45:29 GMT
Just saw it on my news feed.. We all saw that coming but hoped it wouldn't be so soon... doesn't make it any easier. R.I.P  |
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Post by joem on Jan 28, 2017 11:00:37 GMT
Never got the chance to see him on stage. I would have if he'd been able to go through with The Entertainer, but it was not to be. RIP.
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Post by glossie on Jan 28, 2017 12:29:21 GMT
This is such sad news.
I'm not one for 'favourite' actors as I haven't seen enough theatre to have favourites and I don't watch films, but I did really like John Hurt. I luckily did get to see him on stage in Heroes and met him at the stage door. He was utterly charming and it's still one of the highlights of my theatregoing memories.
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Post by Snciole on Jan 28, 2017 14:54:43 GMT
Sad news, whilst I guessed he was ill I assumed it was too ill for the demands of London theatre rather than being ill. My friend asked me in great confusion when she had won TodayTix lottery seats why she got Gawn Grainger and not Hurt so he was a big draw, right up until the end. He had a great career and wasn't afraid to say no to parts that others would deem beneath him/them and gave everything his all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 16:58:07 GMT
Very sad... So many cinema memories- Midnight Express, The Elephant Man, Scandal, 10 Rillington Place, White Mischief being my personal favourites- and The Naked Civil Servant and mad, mad Caligula in I, Claudius on TV of course.
Thanks for the memories, Mr Hurt, and thanks for going where others might not have trodden back then.
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Post by floorshow on Jan 29, 2017 13:48:16 GMT
Was massively looking forward to him in The Entertainer, have been half expecting this news since he had to pull out of that but still very sad to hear he's gone.
Only got to see him the once, in Afterplay back in 2002. He was great of course, effortlessly engaging.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 16:24:28 GMT
Very sad... So many cinema memories- Midnight Express, The Elephant Man, Scandal, 10 Rillington Place, White Mischief being my personal favourites- and The Naked Civil Servant and mad, mad Caligula in I, Claudius on TV of course. Thanks for the memories, Mr Hurt, and thanks for going where others might not have trodden back then. My sentiments entirely - a very brave actor with an incredible range of marvellously acted roles. A true thespian - may he rest in peace. |
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Post by duncan on Jan 30, 2017 9:13:42 GMT
Got to see him on stage just once in Heroes back in late 2005, with Richard Griffiths and Ken Stott. He was a becalming rock alongside two extravagant performances.
He'll be much missed but he leaves a superb body of work.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 31, 2017 21:27:37 GMT
Never saw him on stage, but I met him very briefly after the BFI's screening of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (can't believe it was nearly six years ago), and thought he was perfectly a perfectly charming gent, there's all too few actors of his quality and class left these days.
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Post by peelee on Feb 3, 2017 16:08:42 GMT
I saw newly-released in Britain made in 2016 US film 'Jackie' yesterday, in which John Hurt plays several scenes set in 1963 with Natalie Portman who plays recently-widowed Mrs Kennedy. Not a few lines either but some minutes of interaction between the Irish priest he plays and the wife of the assassinated US president. It's not the greatest film that was ever made but the scenes mentioned were a poignant reminder of the talented and wide-ranging British actor in a role that personified dignity and thoughtfulness from an actor who knew he couldn't have much longer to live.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 17, 2017 15:17:32 GMT
Tomorrow (Saturday 18 February 2017) Radio 4 will broadcast Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, 2.30pm to 4pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b065rn7tStarring John Hurt. A dying Soho, seen through the eyes of the notorious columnist of The Spectator - plain-speaking drinker, gambler, wit and raconteur. With frequent, very strong language. Keith Waterhouse's biographical play of Jeffrey Bernard is a recreation of a time in London when poets, painters, artists and writers (Dylan Thomas, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Elizabeth Smart) lived alongside the local Low Life of No Knickers Joyce and Sid the Swimmer, inhabiting the clubs and pubs of Dean Street. Jeffrey knew and wrote about all of them. The play is set very early in the morning at the Coach and Horses pub in Soho, where Jeffrey spent most of his days, when not 'at the Races'. The Coach and Horses was his 'office'. Jeffrey has passed out in the Gents, missed closing time and wakes up to find himself alone in the pub with the door locked. He spends the night re-visiting incidents in Soho past and present, his childhood, gambling, women, racing and drink - fuelled by vodka. Alongside John Hurt in the lead role, the cast includes Nichola McAuliffe, Jeff Rawle, Amelia Bullmore and Miles Jupp. Recorded on location in Gerry's Club in Dean Street Soho. |
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