How old was John Hurt in the movie Contact?

John Hurt was 56 in Contact when he played the character 'S. R. Hadden'.

That was over 27 years ago in 1997.

In 2017 he died aged 77, starring in 192 films in his career, 106 of those after Contact was first released. If he were alive today he would be 84.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In Contact, I think John Hurt looks:

Did you know?

  • Director Robert Zemeckis 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
  • Contact scores 7.41 out of 10 on TMDB.

The cast of Contact

John Hurt's other movies