Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was employed by Orwell as an everyman character. He is an unremarkable indiv
John Hurt as Winston Smith in the the 1984 film adaptation
Orwell at the BBC
Actor David Buck as Smith in the 1965 BBC TV adaption
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Sir John Vincent Hurt was an English actor. Regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and described as having the "most distinctive voice in Britain", he was referred to by David Lynch as
Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
…portrayed in numerous adaptations of the novel in film, television, radio and theatre, including Peter Cushing in the 1954 television adaptation and John Hurt in the 1984 film. Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to revise historical documents so they match…
Hurt in 2009
Hurt portrayed Sir Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Hurt portrayed Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980)
Cynthia Nixon, Hurt and Swoosie Kurtz in 2009