William Hurt, who earned three Oscar nominations in the 1980s including a win for Kiss of the Spider Woman, has died several days shy of his 72nd birthday.
Hurt apparently did quite a bit of work on the stage, both before getting into movies, as well in between movies in the 1980s and beyond, picking up a Tony nomination along the way; his TV work also earned him an Emmy nomination. Among the Oscar nominations, I've surprisingly only seen Children of a Lesser God, not having seen Kiss of the Spider Woman or Broadcast News, the latter of which was on one of the HBO channels that DirecTV had a free preview of this weekend. I didn't think to record it at the time, in part because I recorded several other things and still need to free up more space on my DVR.
Among the Hurt films I have seen are Body Heat, pictured above; Gorky Park, a fun if imperfect movie; and The Accidental Tourist. Hurt was also in some of the Marvel comic-book movies in the last decade, but I rarely go to the movie theater and haven't seen any of the comic-book movies.
I could see TCM having a small tribute to Hurt on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night when they don't have to program quite so many movies because of the presence of the overnight programming themes. In any case, that wouldn't be until after the end of 31 Days of Oscar.
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