John Hurt Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This John Hurt filmography covers 98 movie titles and 16 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

John Hurt movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• A Man for All Seasons (1966) as Richard Rich
• 10 Rillington Place (1971) as Timothy Evans
• The Pied Piper (1972) as Franz
• The Ghoul (1975) as Tom Rawlings
• The Naked Civil Servant (1975) as Quentin Crisp
• The Disappearance (1977) as Atkinson
• Midnight Express (1978) as Max
• The Lord of the Rings (1978) as Aragorn (voice)
• The Shout (1978) as Anthony Fielding
• Watership Down (1978) as Hazel (voice)
• Alien (1979) as Kane
• Heaven's Gate (1980) as Billy Irvine
• The Elephant Man (1980) as John Merrick
• History of the World: Part I (1981) as Jesus - The Roman Empire
• Night Crossing (1982) as Peter Strelzyk
• Partners (1982) as Kerwin
• The Plague Dogs (1982) as Snitter (voice)
• The Osterman Weekend (1983) as Lawrence Fassett
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) as Winston Smith
• The Hit (1984) as Braddock
• Live Aid (1985) as Self
• The Black Cauldron (1985) as The Horned King (voice)
• Aria (1987) as The Actor
• From the Hip (1987) as Douglas Benoit
• Spaceballs (1987) as John Hurt
• White Mischief (1987) as Gilbert Colville
• Scandal (1989) as Stephen Ward
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990) as Dr. Joe Buchanan / Narrator (voice)
• The Field (1990) as Bird' O'Donnell
• King Ralph (1991) as Lord Percival Graves
• Monolith (1993) as Villano
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994) as The Countess
• Second Best (1994) as Uncle Turpin
• Thumbelina (1994) as Mr. Mole (voice)
• Dead Man (1995) as John Scholfield
• Rob Roy (1995) as John Graham
• Wild Bill (1995) as Charley Prince
• Brute (1997) as Babits
• Contact (1997) as S. R. Hadden
• Love and Death on Long Island (1998) as Giles De'Ath
• All the Little Animals (1999) as Mr. Summers
• Lost Souls (2000) as Father Lareaux
• The Tigger Movie (2000) as Narrator (voice)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) as Dr. Iannis
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) as Mr. Ollivander
• Miranda (2002) as Christian
• Dogville (2003) as Narrator (voice)
• Owning Mahowny (2003) as Victor Foss
• The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003) as Self
• Hellboy (2004) as Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
• Pride (2004) as Harry (voice)
• Hiroshima (2005) as Narrator (voice)
• Manderlay (2005) as Narrator (voice)
• The Proposition (2005) as Jellon Lamb
• The Skeleton Key (2005) as Ben Devereaux
• Valiant (2005) as Felix (voice)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) as Narrator (voice)
• Shooting Dogs (2006) as Christopher
• V for Vendetta (2006) as Adam Sutler
• Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007) as Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (voice)
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) as Trevor Bruttenholm
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as Professor Harold Oxley
• New York, I Love You (2008) as Bellhop
• Outlander (2008) as Rothgar
• Recount (2008) as Warren Christopher
• The Oxford Murders (2008) as Arthur Seldom
• 44 Inch Chest (2009) as Old Man Peanut
• An Englishman in New York (2009) as Quentin Crisp
• The Gruffalo (2009) as Owl (voice)
• The Limits of Control (2009) as Guitar
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
• A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010) as Grandpa Sammy (voice)
• Brighton Rock (2010) as Phil Corkery
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) as Ollivander
• Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010) as Carnak
• Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010) as James Parkin
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Ollivander
• Immortals (2011) as Old Zeus
• Melancholia (2011) as Dexter
• The Confession (2011) as Priest
• The Gruffalo's Child (2011) as The Owl (voice)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) as Control
• More Than Honey (2012) as Narrator (english voice)
• Sightseers (2012) as Jerusalem Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) as The War Doctor
• Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013) as The War Doctor
• Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) as Kingsley Bedford
• Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) as Christopher Marlowe
• Snowpiercer (2013) as Gilliam
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013) as The War Doctor (archive voice)
• Hercules (2014) as Cotys
• Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015) as The Doctor (War) (picture) (uncredited)
• Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure: The Movie (2015) as Sailor John (voice)
• Jackie (2016) as The Priest
• Damascus Cover (2017) as Miki
• My Name Is Lenny (2017) as Leslie Salmon
• The Journey (2017) as Harry Patterson
• Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021) as Self (archive footage)

John Hurt television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for John Hurt; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Doctor Who as The Doctor
• Great Performances as Narrator
• Human Planet as Narrator (voice)
• I, Claudius as Caligula
• Labyrinth as Audric Baillard
• Masters of Science Fiction as Samswope
• Merlin as Kilgharrah (voice)
• Natural World as Narrator
• NOVA as Narrator
• Planet Dinosaur as Narrator
• The Confession as Priest
• The Hollow Crown as The Chorus
• The Last Panthers as Tom
• The Storyteller as The Storyteller
• The Sweeney as Tony Grey
• Who Do You Think You Are? as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of John Hurt's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.