Mr. Hurt slipped so easily into makeup that it often seemed a form of disguise. Though Mr. Hurt was more familiar to audiences in Britain, where he was knighted in 2015, his work there found its way to recognition across the Atlantic as well. In 1983, he gave an acclaimed performance as the Fool in a television production of “King Lear,” with Laurence Olivier in the title role. Mr. Hurt played the depraved, bloodthirsty emperor Caligula. Mr. Hurt played Timothy Evans, who in 1950 was wrongly convicted of some of Mr. Christie’s crimes and executed.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2017 04:45 UTC