![]() ![]() (The two would reteam twice more for 1988’s The Accidental Tourist and 1990’s I Love You to Death.) Next, Hurt stood out in an outstanding ensemble cast as an emotionally damaged Vietnam War veteran in The Big Chill (1983), also directed by Kasdan. (Christopher Reeve, his former classmate at the Juilliard School, had turned down his part.) Trained on the stage, Hurt made his electric debut on the big screen as an obsessed psychopathologist who experiments with sensory deprivation and flotation tanks in the bizarre Paddy Chayefsky-scripted Altered States (1980), directed by Ken Russell.Ī year later, he had his breakthrough when his patsy lawyer character becomes the boy toy of a manipulative wealthy woman (Kathleen Turner) out to murder her husband in the noir thriller Body Heat, helmed by Lawrence Kasdan in his directorial debut. Hurt died Sunday morning at his home in Portland, Oregon, one of his three sons, Will, told The Hollywood Reporter. William Hurt, the exacting Oscar winner who dominated a decade as few other actors have done with his turns in the 1980s classics Body Heat, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News, has died. ![]()
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