Bernard Hill
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
148
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
Horizon
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Titanic
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Natural World
Unforgotten
ParaNorman
Screen Two
HBO First Look
Wolf Hall
Valkyrie
The Ghost and the Darkness
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week
Between the Lines
First Knight
Gothika
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
I, Claudius
Joy Division
The Scorpion King
Wimbledon
The Wind in the Willows
The Heart of the Earth
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
The Bounty
Gandhi
The Responder
The Tragedy of Richard III
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Criminal
Canoe Man
A Question of Identity
Mountains of the Moon
Drowning by Numbers
The Making of the Return of the King
Theban Plays: Antigone
Great Expectations
A Turn for the Worse
Henry VI Part 1
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
The Law Lord
Five Days
True Crime
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
The Sorrows
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
No Surrender
Henry VI Part 3
Trial by Combat
Henry VI Part 2
Reflections on Titanic
The Art of Tripping
The Last Tommy
Shirley Valentine
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Shoot the Revolution
Outpost 11
Skallagrigg
Franklyn
Fox
The Moor
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
The Mill on the Floss
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Bellman and True
The Kid
The Black Stuff
A Very Social Secretary
Exodus
Restless Natives
Boys from the Blackstuff
Shepherd on the Rock
Pit Strike
Madagascar Skin
Wild China
Fairy Tales
The Grid
A Question of Faith
Eisenstein
Double X: The Name of the Game
Going Off Big Time
Save Angel Hope
Professional Foul
Fox
It Could Happen to You
Lipstick on Your Collar
The Burston Rebellion
Once Upon A Time In The North
North v South
India's Frontier Railways
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Great Expectations
Hope and Wire
From There to Here
Squaring the Circle
Daft Mam Blues
Boy Soldier
Ocean Odyssey
Olly's Prison
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Sunshine
Village Hall
Golden Years
Runners
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
On the Set of 'Gothika'
Our Flesh and Blood
Surviving Disaster
Surviving Disaster
Forever Young
The Gambling Man
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
One Life
Dirtysomething
Say No to Strangers
Hard Labour
Bombay Railway
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Segunda oportunidad
The Titanic Chronicles
Indian Hill Railways
She Fell Among Thieves
The Making of The Two Towers
The Peddler
The Chain
Titanic: Case Closed
Heatwave
Speaking In Tongues
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
The Crumblegiant
Housewives' Choice
Titus: The Gorilla King
Bombay Railway
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
The Spongers
No Go: The Free Derry Story
Exodus
Inside CERN
From Moscow to Pietushki
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
