Hurt was one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as 'Broadcast News,' 'Body Heat' and 'The Big Chill.' He won a best actor Oscar for his role in 'Kiss of the Spider Woman.'
NEW YORK — 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 died. He was 71.
People are also reading… Hurt, whose father worked for the State Department, was born in Washington D.C. and traveled widely as a child while attending boarding school in Massachusetts. His parents divorced when he was young. When Hurt was 10, his mother married Henry Luce III, son of the Time magazine founder. Hurt studied acting at Julliard and first emerged on the New York stage with the Circle Repertory Company.
"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 clamor 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.
Among Hurt's greatest performances was James L. Brooks' 1987 comedy"Broadcast News," as a slick but lightweight anchorman who symbolized the emerging fusion of entertainment and journalism. "If a director tells me to make the audience think or feel a certain thing, I am instantaneously in revolt," Hurt said."I'm not there to make anyone else think or feel anything specific. I have agreed to something the whole piece says. Beyond that it is my only obligation to solve the truth of the piece. I don't owe anybody anything — including the director."
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