I just saw on a Spanish newspaper website that a movie about Jane Birkin's life is being made. In case you don't know, she was married with John Barry. And Barry is gonna be a role in the motion picture performed by Ian Hurt.
I don't really know if he's a good choice. Like someone said earlier, if he's gonna play Barry in the 60's, i'd imagine a younger actor would be more suitable.
Jane was married with John Barry (I think they met while filming "The Knack"), but she left him when she met Serge while filming the film "Slogan" in France in 1968. She later divorced Serge (with whom she has a daughter Charlotte) and then married the French director Jacques Doillon.
For John Barry when he met Jane Birkin: Tom Hiddleston.
Barry met Birkin when she was one of the girls in Barry's musical Passion Flower Hotel (lyrics by Trevor Peacock) along with Francesca Annis and Pauline Collins.
I think John Hurt would be good for older Barry, but since he died a year ago, maybe not.
Ian Hurt? Couldn't find him. Ian Hart? No.
Whoever cast the actor who played Bernard Herrmann in RKO 281 got it wrong, also.