John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt, (January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017), was an English actor and voice actor whose career spanned six decades. He initially came to prominence for his supporting role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966). Since then he has played leading roles as Quentin Crisp in the film The Naked Civil Servant (1975), John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980), Winston Smith in the dystopian drama Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). He is also known for his television roles such as Caligula in I, Claudius (1976), and the War Doctor in Doctor Who.
Hurt's other films include the prison drama Midnight Express (1978), the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), the adventure film Rob Roy (1995), the political thriller V for Vendetta (2006), the sci-fi adventure film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), the Harry Potter film series (2001–11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), and the Cold War espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). His character's final scene in Alien has been named by a number of publications as one of the most memorable in cinematic history.
Recognisable for his distinctive rich voice, he has also enjoyed a successful voice acting career in films such as Watership Down (1978), the animated The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Black Cauldron (1985) and Dogville (2003), as well as the BBC television series Merlin.
One of Hurt's last films is the biopic Jackie (2016), Disney's upcoming animated film Club Penguin: The Movie (2017) and MTV's adult animated film The Cupcakes Movie (2018). He will next be in the 2017 film Darkest Hour, as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, due to be released in November 2017. Among his honours, he received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition for his outstanding contribution to British cinema. He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.
Among other honours, he has received two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award, and four BAFTA Awards, with the fourth being a Lifetime Achievement recognition for his outstanding contribution to British cinema.
==Early life==
Hurt was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire,England and Wales Birth records Retrieved 23 August 2014 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 has 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.Rob Sharp (19 April 2008). Central Saint Martins: The art and soul of Britain . The Independent (London). Retrieved July 2013. 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. He often lend his voice in Soren and the Magic Owl. 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 Doctor Who as a 'forgotten' incarnation of the Doctor, known as the War Doctor. His character first appears at the conclusion of the series seven finale "The Name of the Doctor"; his origins are given in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor"; he regenerates in the 50th anniversary episode "The Day of the 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,Scanlon, Gisele "Bondings"
, Independent.ie, 21 April 2002. Retrieved 18 September 2012. 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 Emma Stafford had been the illegitimate daughter of one of a 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.
==Illiness and death==
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.
Hurt died at his home in Cromer, Norfolk, on 25 January 2017, three days after his 77th birthday. His death was announced two days later.
==Appointments and honors==
===Honours===
In 2004, Hurt was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama.2015 New Year Honours List On 17 July 2015, he attended an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle where he received the accolade from Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2012, Hurt was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires.
In 2014, Hurt received the Will Award, presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, along with Stacey Keach and Dame Diana Rigg. Opened in September 2016, The John Hurt Centre is an education and exhibition space located at Cinema City, Norwich.
===Charity patron===
In 2003, Hurt became a member of the Proteus Syndrome Foundation, both in the United Kingdom and in the US. 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.
In 2006, Hurt became a patron of Project Harar, a UK-based charity working in Ethiopia for children with facial disfigurements. 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."John Hurt CBE joins honoraries at January graduation" , University of Lincoln, 21 January 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
==Filmography==
===Films===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1962	 	Phil 	
1963	 	Max 	
1964	This Is My Street 	Charlie 	
1966	 	Richard Rich 	
1967	 	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	 	Franz 	
1974	Little Malcolm 	Malcolm Scrawdyke 	
1975	 	Tom Rawlings 	
1975	 	Chandler 	
1977	East of Elephant Rock 	Nash 	
1977	Three Dangerous Ladies 	Lt. Simmonds 	
1977	The Disappearance 	Atkinson 	
1978	Watership Down 	Hazel 	Voice role
1978	 	Anthony Fielding 	
1978	Midnight Express 	Max 	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleNominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1978	 	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	 	John Merrick 	
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated – Academy Award for Best ActorNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated – 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	 	Snitter 	Voice
1983	 	Lawrence Fassett 	
1984	Champions 	Bob Champion 	Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Actor
1984	Success Is the Best Revenge 	Dino Montecurva 	
1984	 	Braddock 	Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best ActorMystfest for Best Actor
1984	Nineteen Eighty-Four 	Winston Smith 	Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best ActorFantasporto for Best Actor Valladolid International Film Festival for Best Actor
1985	After Darkness 	Peter Hunningford 	Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
1985	 	The Horned King 	Voice
1986	Jake Speed 	Sid 	
1987	 	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 Pagliacci
1987	Vincent 	Narrator (Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother)	Voice
1987	
White Mischief 	Gilbert Colvile 	
1988	 	Lucien Metz 	
1988	Oliver 	Lizard #10 	Voice
1989	Scandal 	Stephen Ward 	
1989	Little Sweetheart 	Robert Burger 	
1990	Romeo-Juliet 	La Dame aux ChatsMercutio 	
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 BuchananNarrator 	
1990	Oliver the Kitten Films - Orbitty Stands By 	Thumper 	Voice
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
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	 	Chuck Langer 	
1999	New Blood 	Alan White 	
1999	 	Sebastian 	English dub of French film Le Château des singes
1999	If... Dog... Rabbit... 	Sean Cooper 	
1999	You're Dead... 	Maitland 	
2000	 	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	Mopi 	Bruce 	Voice
2005	 	Jellon Lamb 	Nominated – Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2005	Shooting Dogs 	Christopher 	
2005	Manderlay 	Narrator 	Voice
2005	 	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	 	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	 	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 CastNominated — 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 	
2015	Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure 	Sailor John 	Voice
2016	The Journey 	Harry Patterson 	
2016	Jackie 	The Priest 	
2017	Club Penguin: The Movie 	Doctor Skia 	Voice
2017	Darkest Hour 	Neville Chamberlain 	Filming
2017	That Good Night 	Ralph 	Post-production
2017	
My Name Is Lenny 	Leslie Salmon 	Filming
2018	The Cupcakes Movie 	Ant-One 	Voice
===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 	 	Christopher "Christy" Mahon 	Television film
1975 	 	Quentin Crisp 	Television filmBritish 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 	 	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 	Television film
1988 	 	The Storyteller 	Appeared in all nine first series episodes
1990 	 	Chris Mullin 	Television film
1991 	Journey to Knock 	Alfred 	Television film
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 	Television film
1994 	Picture Windows 	TV mini-series 	Television film
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 	Television film
2004 	 	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 	 	The Owl 	Television film (children's), voice
2009 	 	Quentin Crisp 	Television filmBerlin International Film Festival – Teddy AwardNominated – 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 	Documentary
2011 	Planet Dinosaur 	Narrator 	Documentary
2011 	 	The Owl 	Television film (children's), voice
2012 	Labyrinth 	Audric Baillard 	TV miniseries
2012 	 	The Chorus 	Television film
2012 	The Cupcakes 	Ant-One 	Voice
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===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1996	Privateer 2: The Darkening	Joe the Bartender 	
1998	Tender Loving Care 	Dr. Turner 	
2015	Lego Dimensions 	War Doctor (archive audio)	
===Roles in Idea Wiki===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2005	Carenza 	Mr.Kane 	
2015	The 806's (2015 Film)	Claude Zeta	
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