Nineteen Eighty-four

film by Radford [1984]
Also known as: “1984”

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Burton

  • Richard Burton
    In Richard Burton

    The Wild Geese (1978), and 1984 (1984), the latter of which was his final feature film. Burton also occasionally appeared on television, notably playing Winston Churchill in the TV movie The Gathering Storm (1974) and Richard Wagner in the miniseries Wagner, which first aired in the early 1980s and later…

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Hurt

  • John Hurt
    In John Hurt

    …of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four; as a charming status seeker in Scandal (1989), which was based on the Profumo affair; and as a stuffy author who becomes enamoured of a young male movie idol in Love and Death on Long Island (1997). Hurt also enjoyed smaller parts in…

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