(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 1/27; via Pam Green.)
John Hurt, the wiry English actor who played a drug addict in “Midnight Express,” Kane in “Alien,” the title character in “The Elephant Man,” and Winston Smith in “1984” has died. He was 77.
He died on Wednesday at home in Norfolk, his widow, Anwen, confirmed in a statement to Variety. Hurt had disclosed in 2015 that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Anwen wrote as a tribute, “John was the most sublime of actors and the most gentlemanly of gentlemen with the greatest of hearts and the most generosity of spirit. He touched all our lives with joy and magic and it will be a strange world without him.”
Mel Brooks, executive producer of “The Elephant Man,” tweeted that he was a “truly magnificent talent.”
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http://variety.com/2017/film/news/john-hurt-dead-dies-elephant-man-alien-1201971891/
