JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - There are still questions and heartbreak about the cause of a fire that destroyed a museum dedicated to the life of a Mississippi blues legend. Mississippi John Hurt, as he ...

John Hurt was in over 100 films (including “some stinkers”, as he cheerfully admitted) and played a huge range of characters: from the pathos of John Merrick in The Elephant Man to the schlock ...

From the moment John Hurt first set foot in Ireland, he felt a strong affinity to it - he felt that it was his home. Equipped with a family tale that his great grandmother, Emma Stafford ...

It was nominated for eight Oscars (and was unlucky not to win Best Actor for John Hurt, who richly deserved it for playing Merrick) and won Baftas for Best Film and for Hurt. It is heartbreakingly ...