Bernard Hill
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
149
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-12-17
Day of death
2024-05-05 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Bernard Hill
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
Titanic
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Horizon
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Unforgotten
Natural World
I, Claudius
Wolf Hall
HBO First Look
Screen Two
First Knight
Joy Division
The Scorpion King
ParaNorman
Valkyrie
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Between the Lines
The Ghost and the Darkness
Pit Strike
No Surrender
The Kid
The Wind in the Willows
Gandhi
Canoe Man
Boy Soldier
Gothika
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Moor
The Bounty
She Fell Among Thieves
Ocean Odyssey
The Criminal
Skallagrigg
Madagascar Skin
The Sorrows
Eisenstein
Wimbledon
Segunda oportunidad
Outpost 11
Franklyn
Great Expectations
Professional Foul
Exodus
Five Days
Golden Years
Runners
Drowning by Numbers
The Responder
True Crime
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
Shirley Valentine
A Question of Identity
Fox
Restless Natives
The Peddler
Beatles Biggest Secrets
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Wild China
The Heart of the Earth
The Tragedy of Richard III
Reflections on Titanic
Mountains of the Moon
North v South
The Grid
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
A Question of Faith
Henry VI Part 1
The Mill on the Floss
Dirtysomething
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Double X: The Name of the Game
A Very Social Secretary
Save Angel Hope
The Burston Rebellion
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
The Black Stuff
Bellman and True
One Life
Boys from the Blackstuff
Henry VI Part 3
From There to Here
Hard Labour
The Art of Tripping
Fox
Henry VI Part 2
Shepherd on the Rock
Shoot the Revolution
Samson and Delilah
Theban Plays: Antigone
Trial by Combat
Going Off Big Time
Surviving Disaster
Surviving Disaster
Squaring the Circle
Fairy Tales
Olly's Prison
The Law Lord
Lipstick on Your Collar
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Heatwave
Forever Young
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
On the Set of 'Gothika'
Great Expectations
Say No to Strangers
Our Flesh and Blood
It Could Happen to You
Sunshine
Once Upon A Time In The North
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
Daft Mam Blues
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
The Last Tommy
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
Village Hall
Hope and Wire
The Gambling Man
Speaking In Tongues
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
No Go: The Free Derry Story
The Titanic Chronicles
The Chain
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
The Spongers
India's Frontier Railways
Indian Hill Railways
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Bombay Railway
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
A Turn for the Worse
From Moscow to Pietushki
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Housewives' Choice
The Crumblegiant
Exodus
Inside CERN
Titus: The Gorilla King
Titanic: Case Closed
Bombay Railway
