How old was John Hurt in the movie The Lord of the Rings?

John Hurt was 37 in The Lord of the Rings when he played the character 'Aragorn (voice)'.

That was over 45 years ago in 1978.

In 2017 he died aged 77, starring in 192 films in his career, 169 of those after The Lord of the Rings was first released. If he were alive today he would be 84.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In The Lord of the Rings, I think John Hurt looks:

Did you know?

  • Director Ralph Bakshi has worked with John Hurt just once in his career.
  • John Hurt's first movie was as 'Phil Corbett' in The Wild and the Willing, released in 1962 when he was 21
  • The Lord of the Rings scores 6.57 out of 10 on TMDB.

John Hurt's other movies