The Great Acting Blog: “The Many Deaths Of John Hurt”

The Great Acting Blog: “The Many Deaths Of John Hurt”

I clicked on the link for “The Many Deaths of John Hurt”, expecting a fun couple of minutes watching Hurt expire in a number of his films, but ended up being struck by the resonance of a great actor’s life. The clips seem capture the sheer length and breadth of his extraordinary career, spanning as they do from the early 1960s to the present day. Hurt’s body of work is immense, I look at it with awe, and wonder just how on Earth he constructed it. It’s humbling and mindboggling for most of us who just bumble along doing the best we can. On the one hand it’s overwhelming but on the other we see how inspiring it is – there is so much more to achieve.

Hurt is a master actor, one of the few true greats we have left. He still seems to care, and that sentiment is present in his work, infact it’s one of the reason why we favour him so. Also, I’m glad to see his turn as the hitman Braddock in Stephen Frear’s 1984 film, The Hit, has been included, it’s a very underrated picture.

I hope you enjoy the montage of John Hurt’s deaths in movies, as with almost all of his work, it’ll inspire and delight.

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