William Hurt Dies: Oscar-Winning Actor for ‘Kiss of the Spider-Woman’ Was 71
Highlights
- William Hurt died a week before his 72nd birthday.
- The actor had terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone.
- He had three consecutive Best Actor Academy Award nominations in the mid-1980s for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
- He also won Best Actor Oscar for Children of a Lesser God (1986) and Broadcast News (1987) In 2014, Hurt was on the scene of one of the worst on-set accidents in movie history when a train smashed into the set on a trestle in rural Georgia, killing a camera assistant and injuring several others.
- He was also an active stage actor during the 1980s, appearing in Off-Broadway productions and receiving his first Tony Award nomination in 1985.