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William Hurt
Born: 20th Mar 1950 Washington, D.C., USA - Died 13th Mar 2022
Dept: Acting
William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American stage, film and television actor, trained at the Juilliard School, Manhattan, New York, USA. For his leading role in the feature film "Kiss of the Spider Woman", he received an Academy Award in 1986, followed by 3 more nominations for roles in the movies "Children of a Lesser God", "Broadcast News", and "A History of Violence".
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 123
Film: 102 (83%)
Television: 21 (17%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Fantasy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror, Animation, Action & Adventure, War, Music, News, Reality, Talk
Filmography
Sep 2022 (first aired)
A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness h ... view
Character:
Stephen Holstrom (voice) (8 ep.)
2022
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate d ... view
Character:
Pere La Chaise
2021
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursue ... view
Character:
Secretary Ross
Mar 2021 (first aired)
Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step o ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2020
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have ... view
Character:
Luis Molina (archive footage)
Feb 2020 (first aired)
Meet the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legen ... view
Character:
Peter Cromwell (1 ep.)
2020
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirt ... view
Character:
Tulley
2019
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaini ... view
Character:
Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
Jun 2018 (first aired)
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, ... view
Character:
Bob Partridge (10 ep.)
2018
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from ... view
Character:
Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
2018
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance o ... view
Character:
Ernie Found
Oct 2016 (first aired)
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pur ... view
Character:
Donald Cooperman (14 ep.)
2016
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarize ... view
Character:
Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross
2016
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage ... view
Character:
Jeremiah Mahoney
Jan 2016 (first aired)
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known ... view
Character:
Hrothgar (5 ep.)
Jun 2015 (first aired)
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a r ... view
Character:
Dr. George Millican (8 ep.)
2015
A group of poor immigrant high school boys in Granite, Illinois defy all odds and go on to win the 1940 state championship in basketball. ... view
Character:
2014
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may ... view
Character:
Julian Rigby
2014
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chek ... view
Character:
Herb
2014
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her ... view
Character:
Julian Rigby
2014
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her. ... view
Character:
Isaac Penn
Dec 2013 (first aired)
Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber, sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two em ... view
Character:
Frank Hamer (2 ep.)
2013
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocke ... view
Character:
Self
2013
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as ... view
Character:
Jeb Stryder
2013
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronau ... view
Character:
Richard Feynman
Original title: J'enrage de son absence
2012
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he s ... view
Character:
Jacques
2012
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
2011
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f ... view
Character:
Henry Paulson
2011
A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow worl ... view
Character:
Warren Mills
2011
Agent Coulson informs Agent Sitwell that the World Security Council wishes Emil Blonsky to be released from prison to join the Avengers Initiative. As ... view
Character:
Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross (archive footage)
2011
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hu ... view
Character:
Adam
May 2011 (first aired)
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. ... view
Character:
Captain Ahab (4 ep.)
2010
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober ... view
Character:
William Marshal
2010
Was there really a Robin Hood? Did he steal from the rich and give to the poor? This History Channel program revisits the popular legend of the valian ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
2010
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and ... view
Character:
H2O
2009
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness. ... view
Character:
Brett Hanson
2009
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a you ... view
Character:
György Thurzó
2009
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African Nat ... view
Character:
Professor Will Esterhuyse
2008
How to portray the Hulk and Bruce Banner in a new presentation of The Hulk. Choosing the director and Marvel was able to get Louis Leterrier as the ac ... view
Character:
Self
2008
Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception and legacy. Director David Weisman, who also produce ... view
Character:
Self
2008
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dr ... view
Character:
General 'Thunderbolt' Ross
2008
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have ... view
Character:
President Ashton
2007
A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it. ... view
Character:
Mayor Schneer
2007
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savi ... view
Character:
Walt McCandless
Jul 2007 (first aired)
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kes ... view
Character:
Daniel Purcell (13 ep.)
2007
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego. ... view
Character:
Marshall
2007
The Davis Family - John, Khristy and Maggie - move in to a secluded log cabin in the mountains above Seattle. They soon discover a family of Bigfoot h ... view
Character:
John Davis
2006
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ... view
Character:
Philip Allen
2006
A quietly provocative coming-of-age drama about two brothers — Clive and William — growing up in the unconventional household of progressive paren ... view
Character:
Simon Messerman
Jul 2006 (first aired)
An anthology based on eight short stories by Stephen King in his 1993 collection of the same name. ... view
Character:
Jason Renshaw (1 ep.)
2006
When Elvis Valderez is honourably discharged from the Navy, he heads to the small Texas town of Corpus Christi, where he introduces himself to Pastor ... view
Character:
Pastor David Sandow
2006
A day in a life tour diary with David Cronenberg, as he brings his film "A History of Violence" to the Cannes Film Festival (2005) for its first publi ... view
Character:
Self
2005
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer ... view
Character:
Stan
2005
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner. ... view
Character:
Richie Cusack
2005
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h ... view
Character:
Dr. Peter Reed
2005
The heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she ba ... view
Character:
General Mortimer
2005
In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movi ... view
Character:
Self
Oct 2004 (first aired)
A scientist brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts. ... view
Character:
Professor Waldman (2 ep.)
2004
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alte ... view
Character:
Edward Walker
2004
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on ... view
Character:
Alan Osborne
Original title: Au plus près du paradis
2002
People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, sh ... view
Character:
Matt
2002
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and ... view
Character:
Robert P. Hanssen
2002
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater ... view
Character:
Angus Tuck
2002
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two pe ... view
Character:
Doyle's Sponsor
2001
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita predicts th ... view
Character:
Edward
2001
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing th ... view
Character:
Dave
2001
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradual ... view
Character:
Prof. Hobby
2001
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II. ... view
Character:
Varian Fry
2001
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turn ... view
Character:
Turner Knight
2000
David Whitman is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman ... view
Character:
David R. Whitman
Dec 2000 (first aired)
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spi ... view
Character:
Duke Leto Atreides (3 ep.)
2000
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr ... view
Character:
Jairus (voice)
1999
Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where ... view
Character:
Walter Richmond
1999
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ... view
Character:
Andor Knorr
1999
A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor. ... view
Character:
Greg Harrison
1999
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past ... view
Character:
William Blake Pellarin
1999
A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew. ... view
Character:
Self
Sep 1998 (first aired)
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer ... view
Character:
Dr. Taber (1 ep.)
1998
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. ... view
Character:
George Gulden
1998
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other ... view
Character:
Prof. John Robinson
1998
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and ... view
Character:
Arthur Barret
1998
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ... view
Character:
Inspector Frank Bumstead
1998
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they ... view
Character:
Self
1998
Host John Larroquette takes viewers on a nostalgic trip through the 1965-1968 sci-fi comedy series. The disc's rare footage include Guy Williams's scr ... view
Character:
Self (also archive footage)
1997
After a man is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wro ... view
Character:
K.D. Dietrickson
Original title: Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete
1997
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1996
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her. ... view
Character:
Frank Quinlan
Original title: Откровения незнакомцу
1996
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the s ... view
Character:
The stranger
Original title: Un divan à New York
1996
A burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay. He returns ear ... view
Character:
Henry Harriston
1996
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee ... view
Character:
Rochester
1995
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t ... view
Character:
Paul Benjamin
1994
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son. ... view
Character:
Graham Holt
1994
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done. ... view
Character:
Tommy Vesey
1993
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wif ... view
Character:
Tom
Original title: La peste
1992
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decide ... view
Character:
Doctor Bernard Rieux
1991
This is the story of a small Japanese boy whose only interest is drawing pictures of cats...even while everyone else in the village is struggling to d ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Bis ans Ende der Welt
1991
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Pa ... view
Character:
Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee
1991
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has s ... view
Character:
Jack
1990
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and d ... view
Character:
Self
1990
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h ... view
Character:
Doug Tate
1990
Worse than having your glove stolen, worse than Chinese water torture, even worse than the earth spinning off its axis and careening into Mars, your m ... view
Character:
Steve Mills (voice)
1990
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been che ... view
Character:
Harlan James
1988
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, ... view
Character:
Macon Leary
1988
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge. ... view
Character:
Martin Larraneta
1987
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the ... view
Character:
Tom Grunick
1986
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school ... view
Character:
James Leeds
1985
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest ... view
Character:
Oberon
1985
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his politic ... view
Character:
Luis Molina
1983
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his s ... view
Character:
Arkady Renko
1983
Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own. ... view
Character:
Nick Carlton
1981
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone. ... view
Character:
Jay Follet
1981
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband. ... view
Character:
Ned Racine
1981
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. ... view
Character:
Daryll Deever
1980
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native A ... view
Character:
Professor Eddie Jessup
1978
An untalented singer-dancer, Verna Vane, fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas will put her on the road to superstardom. Although she's more ... view
Character:
Walter
Oct 1975 (first aired)
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture a ... view
Character:
Self (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Oct 1973 (first aired)
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ... view
Character:
Jake (2 ep.)
Jan 1971 (first aired)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular ... view
Character:
Walter (1 ep.)
Apr 1956 (first aired)
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards ... view
Character:
Self - Nominee / Presenter (1 ep.)
Self - Presenter (3 ep.)
Mar 1953 (first aired)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuett ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Dec 1951 (first aired)
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christo ... view
Character:
Turner Knight (1 ep.)
Jan 1944 (first aired)
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Associatio ... view
Character:
Self (3 ep.)