Washington: American actor William Hurt, known for films such as “Broadcast News”, “Body Heat”, and “The Big Chill”, and “A History of Violence,” has passed away. He was 71.
According to reports, William Hurt’s son, Will, confirmed the development in a statement on Sunday.
William was four times nominated for an Academy Award, winning for 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.
After his breakthrough in 1980’s Paddy Chayefsky-scripted Altered States as a psychopathologist studying schizophrenia and experimenting with sensory deprivation, Hurt quickly emerged as a mainstay of the ’80s.
In Lawrence Kasdan’s 1981 steamy neo noir Body Heat, William starred alongside Kathleen Turner as a lawyer coaxed into murder.
In 1983’s The Big Chill, again with Lawrence, William played the brooding Vietnam War veteran Nick Carlton, one of a group of college pals who gather for their friend’s funeral
For his second Academy Award, Hurt played a Philadelphia mobster in David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence.”
In recent years, Hurt made himself known to younger moviegoers through his turn in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thaddeus Ross, a blustering general who was present on the day Bruce Banner became the Hulk.
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