Bernard Hill
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
150
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 Return of the King
Horizon
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today
Unforgotten
Natural World
Joy Division
HBO First Look
Gandhi
First Knight
Dirtysomething
Screen Two
Screen Two
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week
I, Claudius
Pit Strike
Wolf Hall
Boy Soldier
Theban Plays: Antigone
The Responder
Runners
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Valkyrie
Olly's Prison
Eisenstein
Fox
Ocean Odyssey
Exodus
Skallagrigg
The Law Lord
Segunda oportunidad
The Scorpion King
Between the Lines
Daft Mam Blues
Madagascar Skin
ParaNorman
Five Days
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
North v South
Gothika
The Black Stuff
The Peddler
The Ghost and the Darkness
Fox
From There to Here
Shepherd on the Rock
The Grid
True Crime
The Bounty
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Wimbledon
Wild China
Fairy Tales
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
Save Angel Hope
Franklyn
Housewives' Choice
Forever Young
Our Flesh and Blood
The Moor
Shirley Valentine
One Life
India's Frontier Railways
Samson and Delilah
Drowning by Numbers
Boys from the Blackstuff
Sunshine
Lipstick on Your Collar
On the Set of 'Gothika'
Surviving Disaster
Surviving Disaster
Golden Years
Mountains of the Moon
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Hope and Wire
Indian Hill Railways
Heatwave
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Great Expectations
Village Hall
The Kid
The Mill on the Floss
Great Expectations
The Gambling Man
The Heart of the Earth
Once Upon A Time In The North
Trial by Combat
The Wind in the Willows
Bellman and True
Hard Labour
Reflections on Titanic
Exodus
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
No Surrender
A Question of Faith
The Sorrows
Henry VI Part 1
Inside CERN
The Criminal
The Tragedy of Richard III
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Henry VI Part 3
Restless Natives
The Spongers
Bombay Railway
The Chain
Titanic: Case Closed
She Fell Among Thieves
Going Off Big Time
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Speaking In Tongues
The Titanic Chronicles
Canoe Man
The Burston Rebellion
It Could Happen to You
Squaring the Circle
Shoot the Revolution
A Very Social Secretary
Outpost 11
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
From Moscow to Pietushki
Henry VI Part 2
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Professional Foul
A Question of Identity
The Art of Tripping
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
Double X: The Name of the Game
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
Say No to Strangers
Titus: The Gorilla King
The Crumblegiant
No Go: The Free Derry Story
The Last Tommy
Bombay Railway
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
A Turn for the Worse
