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Dead William Hurt, the Oscar-winning star for “The Kiss of the Spider Woman” – Corriere.it

Of Maurizio Porro

The actor, born in Washington in 1950, died of natural causes

He left at 71, of natural causes, actor William Hurtborn in 1950 in Washington, known for having won the Oscar for Kiss of the Spider Woman and then being nominated with Sons of a lesser god in the role of a teacher for the deaf with unconventional methods, alongside Marlee Matlin, a truly deaf-mute actress, deb who immediately took the Oscar. He was the grandson of the founder of the Time-Life publishing group, so rich adolescence, classical studies and Shakespeare on the horizon.

It starts with an extroverted British director such as Kaleidoscopic Ken Russell with States of hallucinationthen moving on to more accommodating but not routine yellows (An uncomfortable witness e Gorky Park). Blond and with a cowboy physiquehis specialty was the opposite, to show inner restlessness and with Lawrence Kasdan hits the target in The big cold, cult film and story of the ups and downs of a generation. Then in Warm shiver will be content to do the sex symbol sharing the weight with Kathleen Turner. I will work with Kasdan again (Tourist by chance the best title) but the golden year 85 with the Oscar and the Cannes award for the homosexual prisoner of the film by Babenco from the novel by Puig, alongside Raul Julia.

In this direction he chooses awkward characters and off limits, like the professor who falls in love with the deaf-mute student or the TV journalist of Inside the news, by Brooks who denounces the mass media with the ardor of the 80s of the fifth power of television. Not an easy or comfortable actor, he always chooses life goes through while having a hero physiquebut the cultural siren takes him to the spiritualism of Wenders (Until the end of the world) and then in the Over di Puenzo, where he duplicates the role of doctor already held in A doctor, a man.

Represented in a cinema verse the approvalthe seduction of conscience, something that escapes a superficial vision, but as an invisible presence in films like Smoke by Wayne Wang, Golden Bear in Berlin. a reluctant divoshy, but seductive in an alternative way and also Zeffirelli puts him to the romantic test in his own Jane Eyre before entering brilliant in Michael by Nora Ephron. The last part of his career inevitably sees him, he too affirmed theater actorimplicated in blockbuster such as AI artificial intelligence of Spielberg but also in the disturbing, prophetic History of violence by Cronenberg, training his expressiveness to express the many ways of contemporary violence.

Into the wild with Penn and Robin Hood and finally the entry into the fantasy planet with Captain America, Black Widow e Avengers: Infinity War of the Russians. Always in action even in private love life: a marriage, the relationship with a screenwriter and one of her with his partner Matlin on the set of Children of a lesser Goda relationship that ended badly on charges of abuse and drugs. From 1989 to 1993 he was married to Heidi Henderson from which he had two children, while a third born from the relationship with the French actress Sandrine Bonnaire met on the set of the Over, unfortunate reduction of Camus’ novel. In the theater he was a star, he frequents Scespirian verses and his heroes (Henry IV, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), but likes to Hurlyburly of Rabe with the direction of Mike Nichols, while the latest tests are the most acclaimed, in the Czech Ivanov directed by Branagh and in Long day into the night2010, O’Neill’s masterpiece.

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