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Top 10 John Hurt Performances

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Hello, Toby Gold here, and welcome to another Top 10 List. Today, I'll be counting down my Top 10 John Hurt performances. Sir John Vincent Hurt was my all-time favourite actor, and he passed away last year of pancreatic cancer. For this list, I've chosen my favourite film and television performances that Hurt acted. In case you haven't seen the movie, I will issue a spoiler alert. So, let's begin. 10. Harold Oxley -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  (2008) Say what you want about the fourth Indiana Jones film, but for me, Hurt made the film worth watching. As Harold "Ox" Oxley, Hurt plays a father figure to the man in the hat's long-lost son, Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf. Ox has an obsession with the crystal skulls, crystalline objects that resemble craniums, and spends a large sum of the film in an eccentric trance as a result. It was fun to see Hurt in an Indiana Jones  film, especially as a crazy recluse, bu...