(Photo: Creative Commons - John Hurt photographed by Walterlan Papetti) In 2017, the world lost a great actor and a mainstay of speculative fiction movies and television shows. Sir John Hurt was a legendary dramatic actor and a pillar of the English stage, performing in Shakespearean plays like MacBeth and King Lear. His dramatic abilities stretched to Hollywood where he received acclaim for roles in Midnight Express (where he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Suppo