William Hurt Filmography

Born:: March 20, 1950 in Washington, DC
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: One of the top leading men of the '80s, William Hurt is notable for his intensity and effective portrayals of complex characters. Although born in Washington, D.C., Hurt had already seen much of the world by the time he was grown, as his father worked for the State Department. His early years...Read More

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The Incredible Hulk

Actors: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson

Synopsis: Mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner has been traveling the globe in search of the antidote that will allow him to break free from his primal alter ego, but both the warmongers who long to exploit him for their own gain and a horrific creature known as The Abomination are determined to stop him Read More

6/13/08
Noise

Actors: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan

Synopsis: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, and William Hurt star in writer/director Henry Bean's topical urban comedy following one man's quest for a little peace and quiet in the big city. The noise was bothersome when David Owen (Robbins) first moved to New York City, but back in those early days it was Read More

5/9/08
Vantage Point

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An Read More

2/22/08
The Yellow Handkerchief

Actors: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne

Synopsis: A band of outsiders takes to the highways in this touching independent drama. Brett (William Hurt) is a petty criminal who is eager to turn his life around after spending six years in jail. Brett is looking for a ride home to Louisiana, and happens upon a pair of teenagers up for a road trip Read More

2008
Into the Wild

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener

Synopsis: Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with Read More

9/21/07
Mr. Brooks

Actors: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Synopsis: A hardened detective enters into a tenuous symbiotic relationship with the vicious serial killer she is tracking after earning the respect of the murderous madman in this vicious psychological thriller starring Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, and William Hurt. Earl Brooks (Costner) is a successful Read More

6/1/07
The Good Shepherd

Actors: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard

Synopsis: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a young man with a bright future ahead of him -- he's a top student at Yale and the protégé of one of the school's leading Read More

12/22/06
The King

Actors: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Paul Dano, Pell James, Laura Elena Harring

Synopsis: A young man exacts a thorough revenge against the father who abandoned him in this independent drama. Elvis (Gael García Bernal) is a young man in his early twenties who, after finishing a hitch in the Navy, learns that his biological father was Pastor David Sandow (William Hurt), a man of the Read More

5/19/06
Beautiful Ohio

Actors: Brett Davern, David Call, Rita Wilson, William Hurt, Michelle Trachtenberg

Synopsis: Longtime actor Chad Lowe makes his feature directorial debut with this quiet family drama focusing on two young brothers as it explores the elaborate family dynamics and rapidly-evolving social attitudes during the dawn of the 1970s. Simon (John Hurt and Judith Messerman (Rita Wilson) are Read More

2006
The Legend of Sasquatch

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Blaire Restaneo, Jewel Restaneo, John Rhys-Davies, William Hurt

Synopsis: In this 3D animated adventure, the Davis family moves into a log cabin in the mountains above Seattle, only to find that a family of Bigfoot are living nearby in a cave. Unfortunately, that very cave is going to be flooded when a new dam is put in, and the family's new hairy friends need help. So Read More

2006
Syriana

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt

Synopsis: Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former Read More

11/23/05
A History of Violence

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: David Cronenberg directed this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke which explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in a small Indiana town, running the local diner with his wife, Edie (Maria Bello Read More

9/23/05
Neverwas

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, William Hurt

Synopsis: A man seeks to unlock the mysteries of his family's tragic past in this drama. Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist who has resigned a prestigious position at a major university to take a job at the Millwood Clinic, a private residential facility run by one Dr. Reed (William Hurt). Riley Read More

2005
Hunt for Justice

Synopsis: Hunt for Justice tells the story of a Canadian judge (Wendy Carson) who is appointed to a war crimes tribunal. With great determination, she overcomes a variety of dangers thrown her way in order to discover the truth about and punish those responsible for a variety of war crimes that transpires Read More

2005
The Village

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric thriller. The rustic village of Covington is a small town in rural Pennsylvania that is home to 60 souls. The citizens of Covington lead a quiet and peaceful life, but not Read More

7/30/04
The Blue Butterfly

Actors: William Hurt, Pascale Bussières, Marc Donato, Steve Adams, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: The true-life quest of a terminally-ill ten-year-old boy who longs to capture the most beautiful butterfly on the planet comes to life on the screen in a touching drama directed by Léa Pool and starring Academy Award-winner William Hurt. In order to appreciate life to its fullest, an ageing Read More

2004
Frankenstein

Actors: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, William Hurt, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Kevin Connor directs William Hurt, Donald Sutherland, and Julie Delpy in this adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The film follows the storyline of the book closely. Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a man from the parts of different corpses, and the creature turns out to be superior to his Read More

2004
Tuck Everlasting

Actors: Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Natalie Babbitt's award winning book for children comes to the screen in a lavish adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures. Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a girl in her early teens growing up in the small rural town of Winesap in 1914. Winnie's parents (Victor Garber and Amy Irving) are loving but Read More

10/11/02
Changing Lanes

Actors: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt

Synopsis: Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) with this thought-provoking thriller. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star, respectively, as Gavin Banek and Doyle Gibson, two New York men whose lives become accidentally intertwined in a Good Friday fender bender on Read More

4/12/02
Rare Birds

Actors: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Cathy Jones, Vicky Hynes

Synopsis: Iceland-born Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson spins this offbeat comedy about fine food and feathered friends. The owner of a failing gourmet eatery in a small Newfoundland town, Dave Purcell (William Hurt) is about to throw in the towel. As he raids his wine cellar and nurses his sorrows, his Read More

2/1/02
First Person Singular: Elie Wiesel

Actors: Elie Wiesel

Synopsis: This one-hour PBS documentary is a visual biography of Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, and human rights activist Elie Wiesel. Much of the film is comprised of a journey taken by Wiesel to his home village of Sighet, Romania, from which he and the rest of the Jewish population were Read More

2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

Actors: William Hurt, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Ron Silver, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: Originally presented in two parts by the CBS network, Master Spy is the true story of Robert Hanssen, a disgruntled FBI agent who, for 20 years, systematically sold out his country to the former Soviet Union. The film depicts Hanssen (played by William Hurt) as hyper-intelligent and Read More

2002
Nearest To Heaven

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, William Hurt, Bernard Le Coq, Hélène Fillières, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: A middle-aged Frenchwoman is either experiencing delusions of grandeur or the full force of destiny in director Tonie Marshall's 2002 romantic drama Nearest to Heaven (Au Plus Pres Du Paradis). When single non-fiction book author Fanette (Catherine Deneuve) accidentally bumps into former Read More

2002
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment Read More

6/29/01
Varian's War

Actors: William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Matt Craven

Synopsis: Varian Fry was an American journalist who was convinced, years before America become directly involved in World War II, that Nazi Germany's abusive policies against Jews and other "outsiders" would soon have grim consequences around the world. But Fry had a hard time convincing other Americans of Read More

2001
The Flamingo Rising

Actors: William Hurt, Elizabeth McGovern, Brian Benben

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Larry Baker, this bittersweet comedy-drama focuses on Hubert T. Lee (Brian Benben), an eccentric man with big dreams, who, along with his wife Edna (Elizabeth McGovern) and adopted children Louise Janine (Olivia Oguma) and Abraham Jacob (Christopher Larkin), relocates to Read More

2001
Sunshine

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker

Synopsis: The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles. The story begins in the late 18th century, as Aaron and Josefa Sonnenschein (the name means "Sunshine" in German) Read More

6/9/00
The Alexander Technique: Solutions for Back Trouble

Crew: Conception

Synopsis: This video offers a system of exercises to gain relief from back problems. The exercises are based on a 100-year-old process called the Alexander technique. Acute and chronic back problems afflict millions of people in America alone. The causes are many -- among them are direct blows to the back Read More

2000
The Simian Line

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan, Cindy Crawford, Samantha Mathis, Dylan Bruno

Synopsis: Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a Read More

2000
Dune

Actors: Laura Burton, Julie Cox, William Hurt

Synopsis: The Sci-Fi Channel's first miniseries production adapts Frank Herbert's esteemed futuristic novel Dune into a six-hour epic. When House Atreides lead by the noble Duke Leto Atreides (Academy award-winner William Hurt) gains control of the universe's most powerful commodity -- Spice -- rival House Read More

2000
Contaminated Man

Actors: William Hurt, Peter Weller, Natascha McElhone

Synopsis: In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) 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 discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem to follow in the path of Joseph Mueller (Peter Read More

2000
The 4th Floor

Actors: Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelley Duvall, Austin Pendleton, Tobin Bell, Artie Lange

Synopsis: A woman discovers the downside of getting to know your neighbors in this suspense thriller. Jane Emelin (Juliette Lewis) is a young interior decorator who has inherited an apartment in New York City from a relative who has passed on. While she loves the building and the price is right, she Read More

1999
Silent Witness

Actors: William Hurt, Jennifer Tilly, Denis Leary

Synopsis: A frightened child and her parents must endure a night of terror in this thriller. Walter (WIlliam Hurt) and Cathryn (Jennifer Tilly) are an American couple traveling in Amsterdam with their ten-year-old daughter Melissa (Francesca Brown). When Melissa accidentally witnesses a murder, the killers Read More

1999
The Big Brass Ring

Actors: Rosemary Garris, William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Miranda Richardson, Irène Jacob, Ewan Stewart

Synopsis: An unproduced screenplay written by the late Orson Welles (penned in collaboration with actress Oja Kodar, Welles' significant other in his later years) forms the basis of this drama of political gamesmanship and blackmail. Blake Pellarin (William Hurt) is running for governor of Missouri in a Read More

1999
One True Thing

Actors: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham

Synopsis: Carl Franklin directed this family drama adapted from the 1995 novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen about a young woman who goes back home to take care of her dying mother. In 1987-88, independent Ellen Gulden (Renee Zellweger), a Harvard grad, is working on a New York Magazine Read More

9/18/98
The Alexander Technique: First Lesson

Synopsis: Teacher Jane Kosminsky works with actor William Hurt to show viewers how the Alexander Technique can help them achieve their best posture and release stress from their bodies throughout the day. The goal of the technique is to learn how to improve balance, support, and coordination while Read More

1998
Dark City

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien

Synopsis: Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters). Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to learn he is wanted for a Read More

1998
Lost in Space

Actors: William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson

Synopsis: This $90 million science fiction adventure is adapted from the television series, created by Irwin Allen, which originally ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The original series employed a Swiss Family Robinson in outer space premise; sent to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, the Robinson Read More

1998
The Proposition

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: This drama about the efforts of an upper-class couple to have a child takes place in 1935 Boston. When Father Michael McKinnon (Kenneth Branagh) arrives from England to join the St. Jude's clergy, he avoids wealthy parishioners Arthur and Eleanor Barret (William Hurt, Madeleine Stowe). Attorney Read More

1998
Loved

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, William Hurt, Amy Madigan, Lucinda Jenney, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: The mysterious reasoning of women who protect men who hurt them is explored in this psychological drama. Hedda (Robin Wright-Penn) was once involved with a man who had a long history of violence against women (played by Anthony Lucero). Even though Hedda broke up with him after a violent incident Read More

1997
A Couch In New York

Actors: William Hurt, Juliette Binoche, Paul Guilfoyle, Stephanie Buttle, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: This is a romantic comedy with an analytical edge from noted Belgian director Chantal Akerman. Set in New York, the fun begins when freewheeling French dancer Beatrice and stodgy psychoanalyst Henry Harriston agree to exchange apartments. He will live in her bohemian Paris flat and she in his Read More

1996
Jane Eyre

Actors: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, beginning with a condensed look at the troubled childhood of Read More

1996
Michael

Actors: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: There are angels among us...and they like lots of sugar in their coffee. Vartan Malt (Bob Hoskins) is the editor of a tabloid called the National Mirror that specializes in unlikely stories about celebrities and frankly unbelievable tales about ordinary folks. When Malt gets word that a Read More

1996
Smoke

Actors: William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Forest Whitaker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Victor Argo

Synopsis: A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several characters that have fractured family relationships in common. Harvey Keitel is Auggie Wren, poetic owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the Read More

1995
Confidences a Un Inconnu

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, William Hurt, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Larisa Guzeyeva, Marina Golovine

Synopsis: This French-Italian drama is set in pre-Revolutionary Russia during 1907 and chronicles the relationship between a cold-hearted, blue-blooded woman and a handsome stranger. The two first meet during a walk in the park. Later, the woman, Natalia's, husband, a dentist, is found murdered in his home. Read More

1995
Trial by Jury

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer stars as a woman corrupted by the criminal justice system in this courtroom suspense thriller. She plays a civil servant named Valerie Alston, a single mother living in New York City, who gets placed on a jury trying the case of mob boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante). A Read More

1994
Second Best

Actors: William Hurt, Chris Cleary Miles, Keith Allen, Prunella Scales, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Actor William Hurt delivers one of his most acclaimed performances in this drama from Oscar-winning cinematographer-turned-director Chris Menges. Hurt stars as Graham Holt, a repressed Welsh postmaster who lives a reclusive bachelor's existence with his suicidal father (Alfred Lynch), who is in Read More

1994
Mr. Wonderful

Actors: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt, Vincent D'Onofrio

Synopsis: A young man (Matt Dillon) is trying to go in with his friends on a bowling-alley investment, but finds that his finances are too strapped to attempt the venture. To curb his outlays, he begins arranging a marriage for his ex-wife (Annabella Sciorra) so he can end the alimony payments which keep Read More

1993
La Peste

Actors: William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marc Barr, Robert Duvall, Raul Julia

Synopsis: Released directly on to video in the U.S., but exhibited on the festival circuit and in Europe, Plague is an adaptation of Albert Camus' novel and reteams filmmaker Luis Puenzo with actors Robert Duvall and William Hurt to tell the story of a South American city that must be cut off from the world Read More

1992
Until the End of the World

Actors: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars Solveig Dommartin as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American Read More

12/25/91
The Doctor

Actors: William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: A doctor finds out the hard way that there's more to medicine than skill in the operating theater in this emotional drama. Jack McKee (William Hurt) is a gifted but arrogant surgeon who cares little about the emotional welfare of his patients and is little more than a benign stranger to his wife Read More

7/24/91
Rabbit Ears: The Boy Who Drew Cats

Synopsis: This family video comes by way of the award-winning series, "Rabbit Ears: We All Have Tales." Originally aired on Showtime. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Secrets of Dick Smith

1991
A. Einstein: How I See the World

Synopsis: Actor William Hurt narrates this profile of Albert Einstein's life and work. After he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, Einstein was often photographed in public, though many knew little about his private life. This program relies heavily on his own words, excerpted from his letters Read More

1991
Alice

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Woody Allen's character study of a well-kept, upscale Manhattan woman (Mia Farrow) takes the title character on a journey through a Wonderland of her own making, in which she learns some truths about herself, her relationships, and the universe in general. Alice leads a comfortable life, except Read More

12/25/90
I Love You to Death

Actors: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's black comedy about a wife's ultimate revenge against her womanizing husband is based on a true story about the wife of a pizzeria owner who decided to kill her cheating husband. When her attempt to murder him failed, the husband refused to press charges against her because he Read More

4/6/90
The Accidental Tourist

Actors: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: Director Lawrence Kasdan and Frank Galati adapted their screenplay for The Accidental Tourist from Anne Tyler's novel. William Hurt plays Macon Leary, a well-known "travel advisor" headquartered in Baltimore. The tragic death of Leary's son causes him to withdraw from the world, which in turn Read More

12/23/88