William Hurt was an established star of the stage and ... his first major film role in the 1980 science-fiction horror movie, Altered States. In 1981, he starred alongside fellow newcomer ...

The Broadcast News cast, which includes William Hurt, Albert Brooks, and Holly Hunter (all three were nominated for Oscars), is one of the most remarkable assembled for a journalism movie ...

It was in the movies that Hurt made his biggest mark, however, and the following 10 roles remind you exactly why the Oscar-winning actor was a master of his craft. The film that put William Hurt ...

William McChord Hurt was born in Washington ... That’s sometimes hard to do in American movies, where the philosophy is to show the whole iceberg.” In 1984, Hurt found time to return to ...

William Hurt, who died Sunday at 71, had a look and an aura that appeared, at first, to fit all too snugly into Hollywood’s conception of what a movie star should be. Tall and broad-shouldered ...

William Hurt, the Oscar-winning star of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Broadcast News" and "Children of a Lesser God," has died. He was 71. Hurt’s son, Will, said in a statement to The ...

William Hurt, a leading man of 1980s Hollywood who ... by Kathleen Turner and roped into murdering her husband. The movie was a sultry, shadow-filled throwback to 1940s film noirs like “Double ...

Acclaimed actor William Hurt, known for his roles in Body Heat, Broadcast News, History of Violence, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, among others, died Sunday of natural causes at the age of 71 ...

William Hurt was tall, blond, and attractive, and the product of a prep-school education and training at Julliard. For someone whose first movie came out in 1980 — the year Ronald Reagan was ...

William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s' foremost leading men in movies such as "Broadcast News," "Body Heat" and "The Big Chill," has ...