Classmates in college.............Robin Williams and Chris Reeve..................the later, Superman.........John Williams did the theme song as well.............Robin Williams another recent death.............adn Chris R.......had a really bad accident on a horse.........in Virginia.........
Early life and education[edit]
Hurt was born in
Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at
Time, Inc., and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked for the
State Department.
[3] With his father, he lived in
Lahore,
Mogadishu and
Khartoum.
[4] After his parents divorced, his mother married Henry Luce III (a son of publisher
Henry Luce) during Hurt's childhood. Hurt graduated from
Middlesex School in 1968 where he was vice president of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several school plays. His high school yearbook predicted: "With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway." Hurt attended
Tufts University and studied
theology,
[5] but turned instead to acting and joined the
Juilliard School (Drama Division
Group 5: 1972–1976).
[6] Two of his classmates there were the late actors
Christopher Reeve and
Robin Williams.
