John Hurt Harry Potter Role. When Bradley Cooper played the role of Merrick recently on the London West End stage he was quite clearly doing the John Hurt voice. John Hurt born John Vincent Hurt 22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017 was a British character actor and Academy Award-nominee who portrayed Garrick Ollivander in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and returned to the same role in both film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Hurt portrays an Englishman addicted to heroin who joins the escape a role for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award. John Hurt born John Vincent Hurt 22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017 was a British character actor and Academy Award-nominee who portrayed Garrick Ollivander in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and returned to the same role in both film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. John Hurt a prolific British actor whose decades in Hollywood included roles in the Harry Potter series and Alien has died at age 77.
In 2013 Hurt made his debut as the War Doctor a forgotten incarnation of the time- and space-traveling Doctor.
John Hurt born John Vincent Hurt on 22 January 1940 is a British character actor and Academy Award-nominee who portrayed Mr Ollivander in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and returned to the same role in Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsAt the age of 9 he decided to become an actor. Hurt portrays an Englishman addicted to heroin who joins the escape a role for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award. Hurt played the role in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone 2001 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Sir John Hurt played Ollivander in the Harry Potter films Picture.
