In which 1980 film did John Hurt play the part of John Merrick?
John Hurt the Rings", playing the role of Aragorn. Hurt voiced Hazel, the heroic rabbit leader of his warren in the film adaptation of "Watership Down" (both 1978) and later played the major villain, General Woundwort, in the animated television series version. As the deformed John Merrick in "The Elephant Man" (1980), he won another BAFTA and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actor. 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
Mississippi John Hurt Mississippi John Hurt", released in 2013 as part of her "Mentor Series". The New England singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey released the Grammy-nominated album "Songs of Mississippi John Hurt" in 1999. In 2017 John Hurt's life story was told in the award-winning documentary series "American Epic". The film featured unseen film footage of Hurt performing and being interviewed, and radically improved restorations of his 1920s recordings. Director Bernard MacMahon stated that Hurt "was the inspiration for "American Epic"". Hurt's life was profiled in the accompanying book, "". Sources for this section are as follows:. Mississippi John Hurt John Smith Hurt (possibly March