Bernard Hill
Acting
- Born:
- 1944-12-17
- Died:
- 2024-05-05
- Place of birth:
- Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Moor
Forever Young
Remembers…
The Responder
Segunda oportunidad
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Inside CERN
Golden Years
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
North v South
Unforgotten
India's Frontier Railways
Wolf Hall
Hope and Wire
From There to Here
The Sorrows
Reflections on Titanic
Outpost 11
ParaNorman
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Titanic: Case Closed
The Kid
Canoe Man
Indian Hill Railways
Valkyrie
Franklyn
Sunshine
Wild China
Fairy Tales
Exodus
Titus: The Gorilla King
Bombay Railway
Save Angel Hope
Exodus
Bombay Railway
The Crumblegiant
The Heart of the Earth
Five Days
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Joy Division
No Go: The Free Derry Story
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Ocean Odyssey
Tim Haines Deep Ocean
Surviving Disaster
The Last Tommy
A Very Social Secretary
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Collectormania 7
Heatwave
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Wimbledon
The Grid
On the Set of 'Gothika'
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gothika
One Life
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Scorpion King
Going Off Big Time
Eisenstein
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
A Question of Faith
The Criminal
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Great Expectations
Great Expectations
True Crime
The Titanic Chronicles
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
Titanic
The Mill on the Floss
The Wind in the Willows
The Ghost and the Darkness
First Knight
The Gambling Man
Madagascar Skin
Speaking In Tongues
Stages
Once Upon A Time In The North
Dirtysomething
Skallagrigg
Olly's Prison
The Art of Tripping
Lipstick on Your Collar
Shepherd on the Rock
A Question of Identity
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Between the Lines
HBO First Look
Double X: The Name of the Game
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Law Lord
Shrinks
Shoot the Revolution
From Moscow to Pietushki
Mountains of the Moon
Shirley Valentine
Drowning by Numbers
Bellman and True
Boy Soldier
Theban Plays: Antigone
ScreenPlay
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
No Surrender
Restless Natives
The Burston Rebellion
Screen Two
The Chain
Squaring the Circle
The Bounty
Samson and Delilah
Natural World
Runners
The Tragedy of Richard III
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 1
Gandhi
Boys from the Blackstuff
A Turn for the Worse
Say No to Strangers
The Glamour Girls
Fox
Fox
The Black Stuff
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Pickersgill People
She Fell Among Thieves
The Spongers
Pit Strike
Premiere
Professional Foul
BBC2 Play of the Week
Daft Mam Blues
Childhood
Our Flesh and Blood
It Could Happen to You
Housewives' Choice
Trade Unions: Seven Days that Shook Young Jim
I, Claudius
Trial by Combat
The Peddler
Village Hall
Second City Firsts
Hard Labour
Play for Today
Horizon