
Bernard Hill
Born: 1944-12-17
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

Titanic

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gandhi

Valkyrie

First Knight

The Scorpion King

ParaNorman

Wimbledon

Restless Natives

The Kid

Runners

Outpost 11

Great Expectations

Professional Foul

The Sorrows

The Ghost and the Darkness

Joy Division

The Criminal

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Moor

Gothika

Canoe Man

The Mill on the Floss

Segunda oportunidad

Hard Labour

The Art of Tripping

Madagascar Skin

Ocean Odyssey

Dirtysomething

The Bounty

Pit Strike

Eisenstein

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

Boy Soldier

JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed

Skallagrigg

Forever Young

True Crime

Exodus

Mountains of the Moon

Franklyn

The Peddler

Shoot the Revolution

Our Flesh and Blood

Housewives' Choice

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

No Go: The Free Derry Story

The Wind in the Willows

Henry VI Part 3

Shirley Valentine

The Heart of the Earth

Drowning by Numbers

Going Off Big Time

Reflections on Titanic

Theban Plays: Antigone

Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

The Chain

Shepherd on the Rock

Inside CERN

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

Titanic: Case Closed

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

The Black Stuff

Golden Years

Interlude: City of a Dead Woman

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

Trial by Combat

Henry VI Part 2

The Tragedy of Richard III

Speaking In Tongues

The Burston Rebellion

Save Angel Hope

A Very Social Secretary

Bellman and True

The Titanic Chronicles

Bombay Railway

The Spongers

North v South

Daft Mam Blues

Double X: The Name of the Game

Henry VI Part 1

The Law Lord

Squaring the Circle

No Surrender

It Could Happen to You

Titus: The Gorilla King

She Fell Among Thieves

From Moscow to Pietushki

Beatles Biggest Secrets

A Question of Faith

A Turn for the Worse

Titanic: Southampton Remembers

A Question of Identity
