THE Bird has flown home.
John Hurt, the legendary and charismatic Hollywood actor who has passed away after a long illness, will be fondly remembered in Kerry for his role as Bird O’Donnell in the film adaptation of John B Keane’s classic The Field.
The double Oscar nominee and golden Globe winner has passed away, aged 77, after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.
The gifted English-born actor had a career that spanned six decades and he was brilliant in roles in The Elephant Man, Nineteen Eighty Four, Midnight Express, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and, more recently, Harry Potter.
But Kerry fans will best remember him for his mischievous, impish role as The Bird in Jim Sheridan’s 1990 screen version of The Field when he made the difficult role very much his own alongside Richard Harris, Brenda Fricker, Tom Berenger and Sean Bean.
The Bird was a role that was very dear to the late great John B’s heart as his own brother, Eamon Keane, played the part of Bull McCabe’s sidekick for the play’s world première at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 1965.
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