US OSCAR WINNING ACTOR, WILLIAM HURT DIES AT 71

United State Oscar-winning actor, William Hurt, whose roles ranged from acclaimed 1980s dramas to Marvel films, has died at the age of 71, one week before his 72nd birthday.

Hurt won the best actor Oscar in 1986 for playing a prisoner in a Brazilian jail in Kiss of the Spider Woman and was nominated two more times in the next two years, for Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News.

In recent years, he has been known as General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross in five Marvel blockbusters.
The family has requested privacy at this time.