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William Hurt: Biography

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Birth Place: Washington, DC
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/20/1950, Pisces
Profession: Actor; producer

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William Hurt previews his new Damages role | Today's News: Our Take | 7/17/2008
Oscar winner William Hurt tells Matt Mitovich about joining his old buddy — and new Emmy nominee — Glenn Close on Damages; his role as Patty Hewes' newest client, a consultant for an energy company, will give him the chance to explore "massive rights and massive wrongs." read more be the first to leave a comment
Hurt So Good for Damages Season 2 | Today's News: Our Take | 6/16/2008
Ted Danson did a delicious job in the debut season of FX's dark Damages, and now the show has reeled in an equally tantalizing actor for the second cycle, arriving in early 2009. Oscar winner William Hurt will play a new client of Patty Hewes' — one who shares a personal as well as a professional past with Glenn Close's barracuda.Series creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman say in a statement, "We are thrilled and honored to have William join Glenn Close on our Damages dream team. The fuse is lit, and with these two actors going head to head, the fireworks are sure to fly."Before you ask, I will interject here that at this time, Danson's involvement in Season 2 has not been determined.Close and Hurt of course worked together for the first time in the 1983 boomer flick The Big Chill. — Ileane Rudolph read more be the first to leave a comment
At the Movies: The Big Chill Is Black | Today's News: Our Take | 6/13/2007
Per Variety, a contemporized, all-African-American remake of Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill is in the works, with Regina King already in the ensemble.... Per the Reporter, Jennifer Aniston will produce and possibly star in Goree Girls, a 1940s-set musical about singing inmates in a women's prison.... William Hurt has joined the Edward Norton-fronted Incredible Hulk, playing Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, the father of Dr. Banner's love interest/a man committed to capturing the big green guy.... Rachel Weisz is the dead girl's mother in Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones. read more be the first to leave a comment
Anonymous Owen Wilson in Night at the Museum and More Questions | Movie News | 2/21/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChick.Question: Why isn't Owen Wilson's name in the credits of Night at the Museum? Is he ashamed of being in it? — SueFlickChick: Owen Wilson is a good friend of Ben Stiller, star of Night at the Museum. He agreed to do an unbilled cameo in his friend's film. Actors will often go uncredited when they're doing a tiny part, because there's no way that can get the billing they would normally be accorded. (For a quick overview of the politics of billing, please check out this FlickChick columnfrom 2005.) In any event, during test screenings Wilson's character — a miniature cowboy — tested so well with audiences that the filmmakers went back and scraped together enough footage to expand his part into a real role. The absence of credit has nothing to do with shame or embarrassment — the average actor has neither anyway. Send your movie questions to FlickChick.Question: I can't believe I found your site — it's great. Here's my... read more be the first to leave a comment

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William Hurt: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Noise (Actor - Mayor Rheinhardt Schneer)	2008	Movie
The Incredible Hulk (Actor - General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross)	2008	Movie
Vantage Point (Actor - President Ashton)	2008	Movie
Damages (Actor - Daniel Purcell)	2007	TV Show Series
Into The Wild (Actor - Walt McCandless)	2007	Movie

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