15 Facts About John Hurt

1. Sir John Hurt is to be honoured at the British Film Institute with a whole season dedicated to his extensive career.

2. Sir John Hurt will be honoured with a special film and television season at the BFI.

3. In January 2002, John Hurt received an honorary degree from the University of Derby.

4. Since 2006, John Hurt had been a patron of Project Harar, a UK-based charity working in Ethiopia for children with facial disfigurements.

5. In 2004, John Hurt was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

6. On 16 June 2015, John Hurt publicly announced that he had been diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer.

7. In 2007, John Hurt took part in the BBC genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated part of his family history.

8. In March 2005, John Hurt married his fourth wife, advertising film producer Anwen Rees-Meyers.

9. On 24 January 1990, John Hurt married American production assistant Joan Dalton, whom he had met while filming Scandal.

10. In September 1984, John Hurt married his old friend, American actress Donna Peacock, at a local Register Office.

11. In 2013, John Hurt appeared in Doctor Who as a 'forgotten' incarnation of the Doctor, known as the War Doctor.

12. In a Guardian interview John Hurt states the family lived in a vicarage opposite a cinema but he was not allowed there to see films, as these were "frowned upon".

13. At the age of eight, John Hurt was sent to the Anglican St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he eventually developed his passion for acting.

14. When John Hurt was five, his father became the vicar of St Stephen's Church in Woodville, Derbyshire, and remained there until 1952.

15. Sir John Vincent John Hurt was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years.