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OSCARS. Bester Hauptdarsteller. Preisträger 1981-1990 WILLIAM HURT (March 20, 1950 - March 13, 2022) was an American actor who made it big in the 1981 neo-noir film Body Heat . He garnered three consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast News (1987), winning for the first of these. After a variety of character roles in the following decade, Hurt earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in the crime thriller A History of Violence (2005). It was announced in May 2018 that Hurt had terminal prostate cancer. He died just a week before his 72nd birthday. FILE PHOTO SHOT: January 18, 1982, London, United Kingdom: WILLIAM HURT at the premiere of film Body H - ZUMAg49_ 20060407_mda_g49_140

OSCARS. Bester Hauptdarsteller. Preisträger 1981-1990 WILLIAM HURT (March 20, 1950 - March 13, 2022) was an American actor who made it big in the 1981 neo-noir film Body Heat . He garnered three consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast News (1987), winning for the first of these. After a variety of character roles in the following decade, Hurt earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in the crime thriller A History of Violence (2005). It was announced in May 2018 that Hurt had terminal prostate cancer. He died just a week before his 72nd birthday. FILE PHOTO SHOT: January 18, 1982, London, United Kingdom: WILLIAM HURT at the premiere of film Body H - ZUMAg49_ 20060407_mda_g49_140

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OSCARS. Bester Hauptdarsteller. Preisträger 1981-1990 WILLIAM HURT (March 20, 1950 - March 13, 2022) was an American actor who made it big in the 1981 neo-noir film Body Heat . He garnered three consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast News (1987), winning for the first of these. After a variety of character roles in the following decade, Hurt earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his supporting performance in the crime thriller A History of Violence (2005). It was announced in May 2018 that Hurt had terminal prostate cancer. He died just a week before his 72nd birthday. FILE PHOTO SHOT: January 18, 1982, London, United Kingdom: WILLIAM HURT at the premiere of film Body H - ZUMAg49_ 20060407_mda_g49_140

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