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      John Hurt plays Warren Christopher, Senior Partner at O'Melveny & Meyers and supervisor of the Florida recount.

      The definition of an elder statesman, Christopher earned his law degree in 1949 at Stanford, where he founded the Stanford Law Review. He practiced at O'Melveny & Meyers for eight years before becoming partner, and starting in 1959 he served as special counsel to California Governor Edmund G. Brown. The 1970s found him at the tops of the Los Angeles County, California and American bar associations, and in 1977 he became the Deputy Secretary of State, receiving the Medal of Freedom at the end of his term in 1981. Following the police attack on Rodney King in Los Angeles, Christopher served as chairman of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991. The next year, he headed up Bill Clinton's vice-presidential search.

      When Clinton and Gore took office, he oversaw the presidential transition and became Secretary of State in 1993. Four years later, he returned to O'Melveny & Meyers.

      John Hurt received the Critics' Award for Most Promising Actor for the stage production "The Dwarfs" in 1963. He has also appeared onstage in "The Caretaker," "Shadow of a Gunman," "Travesties," "A Month in the Country" and "Krapp's Last Tape." In 2002, Hurt was awarded the Variety Club Award for Outstanding Performance in a Stage Play for "Afterplay." His TV work includes "I, Claudius," "Crime and Punishment" and "The Naked Civil Servant," for which he received a Best Actor Emmy® and a BAFTA Best Television Actor Award. He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nomination for "Midnight Express" and a Best Actor Oscar® nomination for "The Elephant Man," and also starred in "V for Vendetta," among dozens of other films. Hurt recently completed filming "The Oxford Murders" in England, as well as the fourth "Indiana Jones" movie.