William Hurt, who won an Oscar for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and played General Ross in the MCU, has died.
His son Will posted a statement announcing his father’s death: “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family mourns the passing of William Hurt, beloved father and Oscar winning actor, on March 13, 2022, one week before his 72nd birthday. He died peacefully, among family, of natural causes. The family requests privacy at this time.
Hurt quickly became one of the most in-demand actors of the 1980s. He received Oscar nominations in three consecutive years in the middle of the decade, and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for 1985’s Children of a Lesser God, where he played a handsome television news anchor who gets into a love triangle involving two co-workers .
Hurt’s fourth and final Academy Award nomination came in the Supporting Actor category, for his work in David Cronenberg’s In recent years, younger audiences knew him best as General Ross, the adversary of the Hulk and later all of the Avengers, in the . Hurt played Ross six different times in the MCU, including five films and one short. His most recent appearance came in 2021’s , the cult sci-fi classic He also began working frequently in television in recent years, working on shows like He had an incredible career and it ended far too soon. We should have gotten many more years of elder statesman William Hurt.
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