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Rip John Hurt

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  • #52
    Cervantes2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Cervantes2


    Such a terrific actor. I particularly liked him as Caligula in I Claudius.

    R.I.P


  • #53
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,081 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    He loved Ireland too.

    Your video isn't available in Ireland, ironically enough

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f91ZxtkGR4


  • #54
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,759 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Your video isn't available in Ireland, ironically enough

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f91ZxtkGR4

    Thanks for that, didn't realise it was geo-blocked, BBC should be charged for that, don't put stuff up on youtube if it denies anyone on internet land to see it.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #55
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    SILVAMAN wrote: »
    And bodycount 2017 starts....Hurt, Mike Connors, Della Street......
    Mannix, never knew that, I thought he died years ago.


  • #56
    mattser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭mattser


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Something must be done about the intolerable situation of more than one old person dying in a calendar year.

    Particularly when it never happened before 2016. Who started this rubbish ?

    Anyway, sad about John Hurt. Great actor and lovely man.


  • #57
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Ferrari3600 wrote: »
    The Queen Mother. :(

    Kirk Douglas.


  • #58
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    branie2 wrote: »
    Bull McCabe: Who took the mate out of this one?
    Bird: T'was not me, bull.

    Fixed :)



  • #59
    RubyGlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭RubyGlee


    Sad to hear this he was a great actor. I loved the storyteller when I was a child It was his voice that made it plus the dog


  • #60
    Boater123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭Boater123


    Met him once, came across as a kind and genuine person. Sorry to hear of his passing.


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  • #61
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,662 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I heard today on BBC News that he had given a generous amount of money & time to Childline.

    I thought he was a great actor in The Field & Harry Potter movies. May he RIP.


  • #62
    nagdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭nagdefy


    Just reading about John Hurt's passing and watching the video link below on the Irish Independent.

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/veteran-actor-john-hurt-dies-aged-77-after-battle-with-pancreatic-cancer-35405158.html

    What's annoying me is that every deceased actor or actress is almost defined by the role they played in the Harry Potter series. Richard Harris, Peter Cartwright, Alan Rickman and now John Hurt :mad:


  • #63
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,915 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    To be fair the FB generation will not have seen a lot of these actors in anything except the HP films.


  • #64
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    The unique voice of John Hurt,the man not the actor,trying to save lives.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMnb536WuC0


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfxCittX-zM

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • #65
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    nagdefy wrote: »
    Just reading about John Hurt's passing and watching the video link below on the Irish Independent.

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/veteran-actor-john-hurt-dies-aged-77-after-battle-with-pancreatic-cancer-35405158.html

    What's annoying me is that every deceased actor or actress is almost defined by the role they played in the Harry Potter series. Richard Harris, Peter Cartwright, Alan Rickman and now John Hurt :mad:

    I don't understand how anyone my age (36) would ever have seen a Harry Potter movie?! Maybe if you've had kids. But yeah, I keep hearing every British and Irish actor under the sun has been in the movies.


  • #66
    nagdefy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭nagdefy


    NIMAN wrote: »
    To be fair the FB generation will not have seen a lot of these actors in anything except the HP films.

    They need to educate themselves. The world consists of more than just the FB generation.


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  • #67
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,915 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I don't understand how anyone my age (36) would ever have seen a Harry Potter movie?! Maybe if you've had kids. But yeah, I keep hearing every British and Irish actor under the sun has been in the movies.

    I'm with you on the HP films, never seen a single one, no intention or interest in ever seeing one, as I am an adult and I always assumed they were kids films?


  • #68
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    he came across as a very intense man and ill at ease with himself

    brilliant actor though

    RIP


  • #69
    CINCLANTFLT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I don't understand how anyone my age (36) would ever have seen a Harry Potter movie?! Maybe if you've had kids. But yeah, I keep hearing every British and Irish actor under the sun has been in the movies.

    Is it true that he turned down the part of Harry Monday in the prequels?


  • #70
    sliabh beagh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭sliabh beagh


    he also narrated the 'human planet' series. magnificent calming voice and brilliant actor in such a range of charactors. rip bird.


  • #71
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,759 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    sliabh beagh wrote: »
    he also narrated the 'human planet' series. magnificent calming voice and brilliant actor in such a range of charactors. rip bird.


    Just checked out that documentary on Youtube, fecking brilliant.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #72
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,759 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #73
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    One of the probably 10 best actors of all time.People even on this thread might go no?.....But he was. I might be a bit bias but what an actor.. what a voice as well. R.I.P. John you will be sadly missed.


  • #74
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    saintsaltynuts wrote: »
    . what a voice as well.

    just goes to show smoking 50 a day isn't all bad


  • #75
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,197 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Superb actor. Hurt could play so many diverse roles. But I'll always remember him for the alien bursting out of his chest in Alien.


  • #76
    Kraft.l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Kraft.l


    A young and one of his first roles in a man for all seasons.


  • #77
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Wow I'm only realising now how many great films he's in, such a commanding voice, just realised that I've seen 7 of his films in that top ten list posted earlier...need to watch V for vendetta again, such a good film, marvelous actor!
    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I don't understand how anyone my age (36) would ever have seen a Harry Potter movie?! Maybe if you've had kids. But yeah, I keep hearing every British and Irish actor under the sun has been in the movies.
    NIMAN wrote: »
    I'm with you on the HP films, never seen a single one, no intention or interest in ever seeing one, as I am an adult and I always assumed they were kids films?

    You's are both talking absolute nonsense, there not just kids films, I'm 36 and I've no kids and love all the films, there based on a book series full a adult themes, its like saying star wars is for kids


  • #78
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,915 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    You're just a big kid!


  • #79
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,534 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    A tremendous actor.
    Aside from the well known roles, i thought he was brilliant as Quentin Crisp in the Naked Civil Servant.

    RIP


  • #80
    Hans_Memling
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭Hans_Memling


    A magnificent actor. RIP


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