Pioneer blues and folk guitarist Mississippi John Hurt spent many nights entertaining at the Valley Store in Carroll County. The sheriff's office is investigating a break-in at the historic store ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit ...