FrameThrower · Actors · John Hurt
John Hurt
20 films · 1,512 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1978–2016
Born 22 January 1940 · Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK · died 25 January 2017
Sir John Vincent Hurt was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 20 films · 1,512 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1978–2016
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture1979
- Golden Globe Awards
- BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award2012
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1981
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1979
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor1976
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire2004
- Knight Bachelor2014
- British Independent Film Award – The Richard Harris Award2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,512 frames from the 20 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 20 films we hold, 48% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Oxford Murders
2008 · Arthur Seldom
Dogville
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Heaven’s Gate
1980 · Billy Irvine
The Elephant Man
1980 · John Merrick
The Shout
1978 · Anthony Fielding
Jackie
2016 · The Priest
Snowpiercer
2013 · Gilliam
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · Christopher Marlowe
Melancholia
2011 · Dexter
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Control
The Immortals
2011 · Old Zeus
The Limits of Control
2009 · Guitar
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008 · Trevor Bruttenholm
V for Vendetta
2006 · Adam Sutler
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · Narrator (voice)
The Proposition
2005 · Jellon Lamb
Hellboy
2004 · Prof. Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
Contact
1997 · S. R. Hadden
Dead Man
1995 · John Scholfield
Alien
1979 · Kane
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,512 frames from John Hurt's 20 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.