By Jake Coyle
William Hurt, the Oscar-winning actor of Broadcast News, Body Heat and The Big Chill, has died. He was 71.
Hurt’s son, Will, said in a statement that Hurt died on Sunday of natural causes. He said Hurt died peacefully, among family. Entertainment industry website Deadline first reported Hurt’s death.
Actor William Hurt at the premiere of Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War in Los Angeles in 2016. Credit:Getty
The actor disclosed in 2018 that he had been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone, although at the time he credited an alternative form of chemotherapy with saving his life, according to media reports.
In a long-running career, Hurt was nominated three times for an Academy Award for best actor, winning for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).
After his screen debut in the 1980s in Altered States as a psychopathologist studying schizophrenia and experimenting with sensory deprivation, Hurt quickly emerged as one of the decade’s foremost leading men.
In Lawrence Kasdan’s steamy neo-noir Body Heat (1981), Hurt starred alongside Kathleen Turner. In The Big Chill (1983), again with Kasdan, Hurt played Vietnam War veteran Nick Carlton, one of a group of college pals who gather for their friend’s funeral.
Having started in New York theatre, Hurt returned to the stage to star on Broadway in David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, for which he was nominated for a Tony. Shortly after came Kiss of the Spider Woman, which won Hurt the best actor Oscar for his performance as a gay prisoner in a repressive South American dictatorship.
Hurt was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for A History of Violence (2005).
In Children of a Lesser God (1986), it was his co-star, Marlee Matlin, who took the Oscar for her performance as a deaf custodian at a school for the deaf. Hurt played a speech teacher. For Hurt and Matlin, their romance was off-screen, as well.
Hurt was first married to Mary Beth Hurt from 1971 to 1982. While he was married, he began a relationship with Sandra Jennings, whose pregnancy with their son precipitated Hurt’s divorce. A high-profile court case ensued six years later in which Jennings claimed she had been Hurt’s common-law wife under South Carolina law and was thus entitled to a share of his earnings. A New York court ruled in Hurt’s favour, but the actor continued to have a strained relationship with fame.
“Acting is a very intimate and private thing,” Hurt told The New York Times in 1983.
“The art of acting requires as much solitude as the art of writing. Yeah, you bump up against other people, but you have to learn a craft, technique. It’s work. There’s this odd thing that my acting is assumed to be this clamour for attention to my person, as if I needed so much love or so much attention that I would give up my right to be a private person.”
In her 2009 memoir, Matlin detailed physical abuse and drug abuse during their relationship. Hurt at the time issued an apology saying: “My own recollection is that we both apologised and both did a great deal to heal our lives.”
Albert Brooks, his co-star in Broadcast News, was among those responding to Hurt’s death.
“So sad to hear this news,” Brooks wrote. “Working with him on Broadcast News was amazing. He will be greatly missed.”
AP, Reuters
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