Early life

Hurt was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of Phyllis (née Massey) (1907-1975), an amateur actress and engineer, and Arnould Herbert Hurt (1904-1999), a mathematician who became a Church of England clergyman and served as vicar of Shirebrook. Hurt's father was also Vicar of St John's parish, Sunderland. In 1937, he moved his family to Derbyshire, where he became Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity Church. When Hurt was five, his father became the vicar of St. Stephen's Church in Woodville, south Derbyshire, and remained there until 1952.

Hurt had a strict upbringing; the family lived opposite a cinema, but he was not allowed to see films there. He was also not permitted to mix with local children because his parents saw them as "too common".

At the age of eight, Hurt was sent to the Anglican St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he eventually developed his passion for acting. He decided he wanted to become an actor, and his first role was that of a girl in a school production of The Bluebird (L'Oiseau Bleu) by Maurice Maeterlinck. He has stated that while he was a pupil at the school, he was abused by Donald Cormack (now deceased), then Senior Master of the school and later Headmaster until his retirement in 1981. Hurt has said that Cormack would remove his two false front teeth and put his tongue in the boys' mouths, and how he would rub their faces with his stubble, and that the experience affected him hugely.

Hurt's father moved to Old Clee Church in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and Hurt (then aged 12) became a boarder at Lincoln School (then a grammar school) in Lincoln, because he had failed the entrance examination for admission to his brother's school. Hurt often went with his mother to Cleethorpes Repertory Theatre, but his parents disliked his acting ambitions and encouraged him to become an art teacher instead. His headmaster, Mr Franklin, laughed when Hurt told him he wanted to be an actor, telling him that he "wouldn't stand a chance in the profession".

Aged 17, Hurt enrolled in Grimsby Art School (now the East Coast School of Art & Design), where he studied art. In 1959, he won a scholarship allowing him to study for an Art Teacher's Diploma (ATD) at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. Despite the scholarship, paying his tuition fees and living expenses was difficult, so he persuaded some of his friends to pose naked and sold the portraits. In 1960, he won a scholarship to RADA, where he trained for two years. He was then cast in small roles on television.

Career

Hurt's first film was The Wild and the Willing (1962), but his first major role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons (1966). In 1971, he played Timothy Evans, who was hanged for murders committed by his landlord John Christie, in 10 Rillington Place, earning him his first BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the TV play The Naked Civil Servant (1975) gave him prominence and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The following year, Hurt won further acclaim for his bravura performance as the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial, I, Claudius. In the 2002 TV documentary I Claudius: A Television Epic, Hurt revealed that he had originally declined the role when it was first offered to him, but that series director Herbert Wise had invited him to a special pre-production party, hoping Hurt would change his mind, and that he was so impressed by meeting the rest of the cast and crew that he reversed his decision and took the role.

In 1978, Hurt appeared in Midnight Express, for which he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the latter of which he lost to Christopher Walken for his performance in The Deer Hunter). Hurt voiced Hazel, the heroic rabbit leader of his warren in the film adaptation of Watership Down and later played the major villain, General Woundwort, in the animated television series version.

His other roles in the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s included Kane, the first victim of the title creature in the film Alien (1979, a role which he reprised as a parody in Spaceballs); would-be art school radical Scrawdyke in Little Malcolm (1974); and John Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980), for which he won another BAFTA and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1978, he lent his voice to Ralph Bakshi's animated film adaptation of Lord of the Rings, playing the role of Aragorn. He also had a starring role in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but moderately successful final film, The Osterman Weekend (1983). Also in 1983, he starred as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King in King Lear. Hurt also appeared as Raskolnikov in the 1979 BBC TV miniseries adaptation of Crime and Punishment.

Hurt played Winston Smith in the film adaptation of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). In 1985, he starred in Disney's The Black Cauldron, voicing the film's main antagonist, the Horned King. In 1986, Hurt provided the voiceover for AIDS: Iceberg / Tombstone, a public information film warning of the dangers of AIDS. In 1988, he played the title role, the on-screen narrator, in Jim Henson's The StoryTeller TV series. He had a supporting role as "Bird" O'Donnell in Jim Sheridan's film The Field (1990), which garnered him another BAFTA nomination. In 1997, Hurt played the reclusive tycoon S.R. Hadden in Contact.

In 2001, he played Mr Ollivander, the wand-maker, in the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He returned for the adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though his scenes in that film were cut. He also returned for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and Part 2. In 1999, Hurt provided narration on the British musical group Art of Noise's concept album The Seduction of Claude Debussy. During this time, he narrated a four-part TV series The Universe which was released on DVD in 1999. In the film V for Vendetta (2006), he played the role of Adam Sutler, leader of the Norsefire fascist dictatorship. In May 2008, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Harold Oxley. He is also the voice of The Great Dragon Kilgharrah, who aids the young warlock Merlin as he protects the future king Arthur, in the BBC television series Merlin.

In 2008, 33 years after The Naked Civil Servant, Hurt reprised the role of Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York. This film depicts Crisp's later years in New York.

In June 2009, Hurt played the on-screen Big Brother for Paper Zoo Theatre Company's production of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The theatre production premiered at the National Media Museum, in Bradford and toured during 2010. Hurt said, "I think Paper Zoo thought it would be quite ironic to have the person who played Winston having risen in the party. From the Chestnut Tree Cafe, he's managed to get his wits together again, now understanding that 2 and 2 make 5, and becomes Big Brother. So it tickled my fancy, and of course I looked up Paper Zoo, and they seem to me to be the sort of company that's essential in the country as we know it, and doing a lot of really good stuff."

At the 65th British Academy Film Awards Hurt won the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.

In 2013, Hurt appeared in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor", as a 'forgotten' incarnation of the Doctor, known as the War Doctor. He reprised the role on audio for Big Finish Productions in a series of sets starting from December 2015.

Hurt is due to appear alongside Ben Kingsley in a film entitled Broken Dream, to be directed by Neil Jordan.

In 2015, Hurt provided the voice of the main antagonist Sailor John in the Thomas & Friends film Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure along with Eddie Redmayne and Jamie Campbell Bower.

Personal life

Hurt has an older brother, Br. Anselm (born Michael), a Roman Catholic convert who became a monk and writer at Glenstal Abbey; Hurt has contributed to his brother's books. Hurt also has an adopted sister, Monica. In 1962, Hurt's father left his parish in Cleethorpes to become headmaster of St. Michael's College in the Central American country of British Honduras. Hurt's mother died in 1975, and his father died in 1999 at the age of 95.

In 1962, Hurt married actress Annette Robertson. The marriage ended in 1964. In 1967, he began his longest relationship, with French model Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot, sister of fashion photographer Jean-Claude Volpeliere-Pierrot. The couple had planned to get married after 15 years together, when events took a tragic turn on 26 January 1983; Hurt and Volpeliere-Pierrot went horse riding early in the morning near their house in Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Volpeliere-Pierrot was thrown off her horse and injured. She went into a coma and died later that day. In September 1984, Hurt married his old friend, American actress Donna Peacock, at a local Register Office. The couple moved to Kenya but divorced in January 1990.

On 24 January 1990, Hurt married American production assistant Joan Dalton, whom he had met while filming Scandal. With her, he had two sons: Alexander "Sasha" John Vincent Hurt (born 6 February 1990) and Nicholas "Nick" Hurt (born 5 February 1993), who are currently residing in County Waterford, Ireland. This marriage ended in 1996 and was followed with a seven-year relationship with Dublin-born presenter and writer Sarah Owens. The couple moved to County Wicklow, where they settled close to their friends, director John Boorman and Claddagh Records founder and Guinness heir Garech Browne. In July 2002, the couple separated. In March 2005, Hurt married his fourth wife, advertising film producer Anwen Rees Meyers. He now lives near Cromer, Norfolk.

In 2007, Hurt took part in the BBC genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated part of his family history. Prior to participating in the programme, Hurt had harboured a love of Ireland and was enamoured of a 'deeply beguiling' family legend that suggested his great-grandmother had been the illegitimate daughter of Irish nobleman the Marquess of Sligo. The genealogical evidence uncovered seemed to contradict the family legend, rendering the 'suggestion' doubtful. Coincidentally the search revealed that his great-grandmother had previously lived in Grimsby at a location within a mile of the art college at which Hurt had been a student.

Health issues

On 16 June 2015, Hurt publicly announced that he had been diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer. He confirmed that he would continue to work while undergoing treatment and said that both he and his medical team were "more than optimistic about a satisfactory outcome". Following treatment, Hurt stated that his cancer was in remission on 12 October 2015.

Appointments and honors

Honours

In 2004, Hurt was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

In 2014, Hurt received the Will Award, presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, along with Stacey Keach and Dame Diana Rigg.

He was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. On 17 July 2015, he attended an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle where he received the accolade from Queen Elizabeth II.

Charity patron

Since 2003, Hurt has been a patron of the Proteus Syndrome Foundation, both in the United Kingdom and in the USA. Proteus syndrome is the condition that Joseph Merrick, whom Hurt played (renamed as John Merrick) in The Elephant Man, is thought to have suffered from, although Merrick's exact condition is still not known with certainty.

Since 2006, Hurt has been a patron of Project Harar, a UK-based charity working in Ethiopia for children with facial disfigurements.

Since 2009 he has been patron of QUAD, an arts centre in Derby.

Hurt was announced as patron of Norwich Cinema City in March 2013.

University degrees and appointments

In January 2002, Hurt received an honorary degree from the University of Derby.

In January 2006 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Hull.

In 2012 he was appointed the first Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts.

On 23 January 2013 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts by the University of Lincoln, at Lincoln Cathedral.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	Wild and the Willing, TheThe Wild and the Willing	Phil
1963	Contact, TheThe Contact	Max
1964	This Is My Street	Charlie
1966	Man for All Seasons, AA Man for All Seasons	Richard Rich
1967	Sailor from Gibraltar, TheThe Sailor from Gibraltar	John
1969	In Search of Gregory	Daniel
1969	Sinful Davey	Davey Haggart
1969	Before Winter Comes	Lieutenant Pilkington
1971	Mr. Forbush and the Penguins	Richard Forbush
1971	10 Rillington Place	Timothy John Evans	Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1972	Pied Piper, TheThe Pied Piper	Franz
1974	Little Malcolm	Malcolm Scrawdyke
1975	Ghoul, TheThe Ghoul	Tom Rawlings
1975	Linea del fiume, LaLa Linea del fiume	Chandler
1977	East of Elephant Rock	Nash
1977	Three Dangerous Ladies	Lt. Simmonds
1977	The Disappearance	Atkinson
1978	Watership Down	Hazel	Voice role
1978	Shout, TheThe Shout	Anthony Fielding
1978	Midnight Express	Max	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1978	Lord of the Rings, TheThe Lord of the Rings	Aragorn	Voice role
1979	Alien	Kane	DVDX Award for Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1980	Elephant Man, TheThe Elephant Man	John Merrick	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated - Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1980	Heaven's Gate	Billy Irvine
1981	Night Crossing	Peter Strelzyk
1981	History of the World, Part I	Jesus Christ
1982	Partners	Kerwin
1982	Plague Dogs, TheThe Plague Dogs	Snitter	Voice
1983	Osterman Weekend, TheThe Osterman Weekend	Lawrence Fassett
1984	Champions	Bob Champion	Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor
1984	Success Is the Best Revenge	Dino Montecurva
1984	Hit, TheThe Hit	Braddock	Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor Mystfest for Best Actor
1984	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Winston Smith	Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor Fantasporto for Best Actor Valladolid International Film Festival for Best Actor
1985	After Darkness	Peter Hunningford	Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
1985	Black Cauldron, TheThe Black Cauldron	The Horned King	Voice
1986	Jake Speed	Sid
1987	Hunting of the Snark, TheThe Hunting of the Snark	Narrator	Voice
1987	Rocinante	Bill
1987	From the Hip	Douglas Benoit
1987	Spaceballs	Kane	Cameo of his Alien (1979) character 'Kane', humorously self-parodied with the line: "Oh no... Not again!"
1987	Aria	The Actor	Segment "I pagliacci"
1987	Vincent	Narrator (Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother)	Voice
1987	White Mischief	Gilbert Colvile
1988	Bengali Night, TheThe Bengali Night	Lucien Metz
1989	Scandal	Stephen Ward
1989	Little Sweetheart	Robert Burger
1990	Romeo-Juliet	La Dame aux Chats Mercutio
1990	Windprints	Charles Rutherford
1990	The Field	Bird O'Donnell	Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1990	Frankenstein Unbound	Dr. Joe Buchanan Narrator
1991	I Dreamt I Woke Up	John Boorman's Alter Ego
1991	King Ralph	Lord Percival Graves
1992	Lapse of Memory	Conrad Farmer
1993	Kölcsönkapott idő	Sean
1993	L'Oeil qui ment	Anthony / Le Marquis
1993	Monolith	Villano
1993	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	The Countess
1994	Rabbit Ears: Aladdin and the Magic Lamp	Storyteller	Direct-to-video release
1994	Thumbelina	Mr. Mole	Voice only
1994	Second Best	Uncle Turpin
1995	Two Nudes Bathing	Marquis de Prey
1995	Saigon Baby	Jack Lee
1995	Rob Roy	John Graham, Marquis of Montrose
1995	Dead Man	John Scholfield
1995	Wild Bill	Charley Prince
1997	Tender Loving Care	Dr. Turner	Interactive CD-ROM film
1997	Love and Death on Long Island	Giles De'Ath	FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention of Chicago International Film Festival Nominated - British Independent Film Awards for Best Performance by a British Actor in an Independent Film
1997	Contact	S.R. Hadden
1997	Bandyta	Babits
1998	The Commissioner	James Morton	Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival
1998	Night Train	Michael Poole	Verona Love Screens Film Festival for Best Actor
1998	All the Little Animals	Mr. Summers
1999	Climb, TheThe Climb	Chuck Langer
1999	New Blood	Alan White
1999	Monkey's Tale, AA Monkey's Tale	Sebastian	English dub of French film Le Château des singes
1999	If... Dog... Rabbit...	Sean Cooper
1999	You're Dead...	Maitland
2000	Tigger Movie, TheThe Tigger Movie	Narrator	Voice
2000	Lost Souls	Father Lareaux
2001	Tabloid	Vince
2001	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Dr. Iannis
2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Mr. Ollivander
2002	Miranda	Christian
2002	Crime and Punishment	Porfiry
2003	Owning Mahowny	Victor Foss
2003	Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill	Man from Maybury Hill
2003	Dogville	Narrator	Voice
2004	Hellboy	Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm
2004	Pride	Harry	Voice
2005	Short Order	Felix
2005	Valiant	Felix	Voice
2005	Proposition, TheThe Proposition	Jellon Lamb	Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2005	Shooting Dogs	Christopher
2005	Manderlay	Narrator	Voice
2005	Skeleton Key, TheThe Skeleton Key	Ben Devereaux
2006	V for Vendetta	Adam Sutler
2006	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Narrator	Voice
2007	Boxes	Le père de Fanny
2008	Outlander	Hrothgar
2008	Oxford Murders, TheThe Oxford Murders	Arthur Seldom
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Dr. Harold Oxley
2008	Hellboy II: The Golden Army	Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm	Cameo
2008	Lecture 21	Mondrian Kilroy
2009	Limits of Control, TheThe Limits of Control	Guitar
2009	New York, I Love You	Waiter
2009	44 Inch Chest	Old Man Peanut	Nominated - London Film Critics' Circle for Best British Supporting Actor
2010	Lou	Doyle
2010	Ultramarines: The Movie	Carnak	Voice
2010	Brighton Rock	Phil Corkery
2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1	Mr. Ollivander
2011	A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures	Grandpa Sammy
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2	Mr. Ollivander
2011	In Love with Alma Cogan	Master of Ceremonies
2011	Melancholia	Dexter
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Control	Nominated — Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated — International Cinephile Society Award for Best Cast
2011	Immortals	Old man/Narrator
2012	Jayne Mansfield's Car	Kingsley Bedford
2013	Charlie Countryman	Narrator	Voice. Hurt's narration was in the original version of the film shown at the Sundance Festival, but subsequently the film was re-edited and the narration removed (though it is available as an 'extra' on the Blu-ray release).
2013	Only Lovers Left Alive	Marlowe
2013	Snowpiercer	Gilliam
2013	More Than Honey	Narrator	Voice; documentary
2013	Benjamin Britten - Peace and Conflict	Narrator
2014	Hercules	Cotys, King of Thrace
2015	The Absinthe Drinkers	Antonio Argenti	Filming
2015	Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure	Sailor John	Voice
2016	The Legend of Tarzan	Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter	In post-production
2016	The Journey	Harry Patterson	Filming
2017	Jackie		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	Drama 61-67	Private Briggs	Episode 1.16: "Drama '61: Local Incident"
1962	Z-Cars	James Hogan	Episode 1.29: "Assault"
1963	First Night	Garry	Episode 1.12: "Menace"
1964	Armchair Theatre	Unknown	Episode 4.102: "A Jug of Bread"
1964	Thursday Theatre	Orpheus	Episode 1.11: "Point of Departure"
1964-1965	ITV Play of the Week	Various characters	Appeared in three episodes
1965	Gideon's Way	Freddy Tinsdale	Episode 1.14: "The Tin God"
1973	Wessex Tales	Joshua Harlborough	Episode 1.3: "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions"
1974	Playboy of the Western World, TheThe Playboy of the Western World	Christopher "Christy" Mahon	Television film
1975	Naked Civil Servant, TheThe Naked Civil Servant	Quentin Crisp	Television film British Academy Television Award for Best Actor; #4 in BFI TV 100
1976	Shades of Greene	Fred	Episode 2.6: "A Drive in the Country"
1976	Play for Today	Alec Cassell	Episode 6.22: "The Peddler"
1976	Sweeney, TheThe Sweeney	Tony Grey	Episode 3.4: "Tomorrow Man"
1976	I, Claudius	Caligula	TV mini-series
1977	Spectre	Mitri Cyon	Television film
1979	Crime and Punishment	Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov	TV mini-series
1983	King Lear	The Fool	Television film
1988	Deadline	Granville Jones
1988	Storyteller, TheThe Storyteller	The Storyteller	Appeared in all nine first series episodes
1990	Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing, TheThe Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing	Chris Mullin	Television film
1991	Journey to Knock	Alfred
1991	Red Fox	Archie Carpenter	TV mini-series
1992	Six Characters in Search of an Author	The Father	Television film
1993	Great Moments in Aviation	Rex Goodyear
1994	Picture Windows	TV mini-series
1995	Prisoners in Time	Eric Lomax
1999-2000	Watership Down	General Woundwort	Series 1 and 2 only; voice
2001	Beckett on Film - Krapp's Last Tape	Krapp	Television film
2002	Bait	Jack Blake
2004	Alan Clark Diaries, TheThe Alan Clark Diaries	Alan Clark	TV serial
2004	Pride	Harry	Television film; voice
2005	Hiroshima	Narrator	Voice
2007	Hellboy: Blood and Iron	Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm	Television film; voice
2007	Masters of Science Fiction	Samswope	Episode 1.4: "The Discarded"
2008	Recount	Warren Christopher	Television film
2008-2012	Merlin	The Great Dragon, Kilgharrah	Voice; does not appear in every episode, yet is credited in the opening title sequence for each episode. Also provides the narrative voice at the start of the title sequence.
2009	Gruffalo, TheThe Gruffalo	The Owl	Television film (children's), voice
2009	Englishman in New York, AnAn Englishman in New York	Quentin Crisp	Television film Berlin International Film Festival - Teddy Award Nominated - British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
2010	Whistle and I'll Come to You	James Parkin	Television film
2010	Human Planet	Narrator	Documentary
2011	Harry's Arctic Heroes	Narrator
2011	Planet Dinosaur	Narrator
2011	Gruffalo's Child, TheThe Gruffalo's Child	The Owl	Television film (children's), voice
2012	Labyrinth	Audric Baillard	TV miniseries
2012	Hollow Crown: Henry V, TheThe Hollow Crown: Henry V	The Chorus	Television film
2012	Playhouse Presents	The Ministry	Voice; one episode
2013	Doctor Who	The War Doctor	Episodes "The Name of the Doctor", "The Night of the Doctor", and "The Day of the Doctor"
2014	The Strain	Professor Abraham Setrakian	Unaired pilot episode only; replaced by David Bradley in series.
2015	The Last Panthers	Tom Kendle

Video games

• Privateer 2: The Darkening (1996) - Joe the Bartender
• Tender Loving Care (1998) - Dr. Turner
• Lego Dimensions (2015) - War Doctor (archive audio)

Other projects and contributions

• When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics) - "Sonnet 145"
  ("Those lips that Love's own hand did make")
• Hurt performs in drag for the promotional video for Attitude by the music group Suede.
• Hurt is seen as the 'Brian Epstein' esque mogul in Paul McCartney's 1982 video for his song "Take It Away". McCartney explains in the video commentary section of The McCartney Years DVD (for the song 'Take it Away') that Hurt himself was a friend of the Beatles and Brian Epstein, and that the Beatles had watched Hurt act in the mid-'60s and thought him a fine actor.
• Hurt is the narrator of the 1995 Discovery Channel documentary On Jupiter.
• Narrator on the album The Seduction of Claude Debussy by the band Art of Noise (1999).
• Hurt is the narrator of the 4 part series The Universe for Channel 4 International, released in 1999 and available on DVD.
• Hurt co-starred alongside Kiefer Sutherland in the 10 part web series The Confession.
• A line from the movie Nineteen Eighty-Four, featuring the voice of Hurt can be heard as the introduction to the Manic Street Preachers song "Faster"
• In two volumes of a documentary called Life in the Animal Kingdom: Untamed Africa, filmed in the Maasai Mara Game Preserve in Kenya (the two volumes being called Hunter and Hunted and Survival on the Serengeti), Hurt served as the narrator.
• Benjamin Britten - Peace and Conflict, a British feature film written and directed by Tony Britten - narrator.
• Narrator for the BBC 5 live documentary "The day we won Wimbledon."
• Narrator of the Mercedes F1 Team video ad based on the poem "If-" by Rudyard Kipling.
• Hurt voiced an unseen character in the short The Alchemist's Letter by Carlos Andre Stevens.
• Following on from Hurt's role of The War Doctor in Doctor Who, he will voice the character in four sets from Big Finish Productions beginning in December 2015.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]