AVALON, Miss. — The mystery surrounding the missing blues trail marker honoring legendary bluesman Mississippi John Hurt and the cause of the Mississippi John Hurt Museum fire is as winding as the ...

LOS ANGELES — No actor was more perfectly named than John Hurt. It's not as if the people he played were always in pain (though more often than not, they were). Yet he was graced with a seductively ...

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It must be daunting to do a tribute album to Mississippi John Hurt. His intricate finger-picking style, wistful delivery and Cinderella career make him a unique character in music. Hurt recorded a few ...

The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who ...

A younger generation got to know him as Mr Ollivander, the dispenser of wands in the Harry Potter films. When he was cast in the role his son said to him, “How are you going to do the eyes?” It was a ...

For fans of American roots music, the Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, Mississippi, may have been housed inside a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof—it was the childhood home of the late great ...

Actor John Hurt has died at the age of 77 after battling cancer since June 2015. Axel Schmidt AP Actor John Hurt, known for his roles in “The Elephant Man,” “Alien,” “Harry Potter” and numerous other ...

John Hurt, a British actor best known for lead roles in The Elephant Man and Nineteen Eighty-Four and a shockingly gory death in Alien, has died at 77, his publicist confirmed to NPR late Friday. No ...