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Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill

Actor · Born 1944-12-17 · Blackley, Manchester, England, UK

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Biography

Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known as a character actor of film, stage and television, having acted in nearly 130 projects. He is best known to British television viewers for playing Yosser Hughes in the groundbreaking 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff. On film he has played Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill is the only actor to have appeared in more than one of the three films awarded 11 Oscars, and one of only three actors to have starred in more than one film grossing more than $1 billion USD, namely: Titanic and The Return of the King (the others being Orlando Bloom who also starred in The Return of the King, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp who also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as Alice in Wonderland). Hill has appeared in three films which have won Best Picture: Gandhi, Titanic, and The Return of the King. Hill died on 5th May 2024 at the age of 79.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Titanic (1997) — Captain Smith
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) — Théoden
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) — Théoden
  4. Valkyrie (2008) — General - Desert Sequence
  5. The Scorpion King (2002) — Philos
  6. ParaNorman (2012) — Judge Hopkins (voice)
  7. Gothika (2003) — Phil Parsons
  8. Gandhi (1982) — Sergeant Putnam
  9. First Knight (1995) — Knight (uncredited)
  10. The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) — Dr. David Hawthorne
  11. Wimbledon (2004) — Edward Colt
  12. True Crime (1999) — Warden Luther Plunkitt
  13. The Bounty (1984) — William Cole
  14. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) — Egeus
  15. Franklyn (2008) — Esser
  16. Drowning by Numbers (1988) — Henry Madgett
  17. Unforgotten (2015) — Father Robert Greaves
  18. Wolf Hall (2015) — Duke of Norfolk
  19. I, Claudius (1976) — Gratus
  20. The Responder (2022) — Tom Carson
  21. Shirley Valentine (1989) — Joe Bradshaw
  22. The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005) — King William III
  23. Mountains of the Moon (1990) — Dr. Livingstone
  24. The Wind in the Willows (1996) — The Engine Driver
  25. The Moor (2024) — Thornley
  26. Wild China (2008) — Himself - Narrator
  27. Five Days (2007) — Gerard Hopkirk
  28. Golden Years (2016) — Arthur
  29. Restless Natives (1985) — Will's father
  30. Horizon (1964) — Narrator
  31. The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999) — Susan's Father
  32. Natural World (1983)
  33. Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012) — Captain EJ Smith
  34. Reflections on Titanic (2012) — Self
  35. Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) — Uncle Fred
  36. Joy Division (2006) — Dennis
  37. The Kid (2010) — Uncle David
  38. Outpost 11 (2012) — Cranleigh
  39. The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003) — John Joe
  40. Bellman and True (1987) — Hiller