Updated On: 17 June, 2015 08:02 AM IST | | PTI
<p>British actor John Hurt said he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but would keep working and was "more than optimistic" about his future</p>

John Hurt
London: British actor John Hurt said he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but would keep working and was "more than optimistic" about his future.
John Hurt
"I have recently been diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer," the 75-year-old Hurt, who appeared in the cult film 'Alien' and the 'Harry Potter' series, said in a statement to Britain's Press Association.