Here’s why we loved him... Sir John Hurt at the 2016 BBC Audio Drama Awards 1. Despite being knighted in 2015 for services to drama and winning two Golden Globes, four Baftas and two Academy ...

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control (Sir John Hurt), resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control ...

Martin (Elijah Wood), a PhD student in mathematics, enrolls at Oxford in the hope of meeting his mentor, Professor Arthur Seldom (Sir John Hurt). The young man manages to find lodging at Mrs ...