Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 17, 1944
Died
May 05, 2024
Place of Birth
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Credits
152 titles
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
Filmography
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
In Memory Of
The Moor
Thornley
Forever Young
Oscar Smith
Remembers…
The Responder
Tom Carson
Segunda oportunidad
Peter
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Richard
Inside CERN
Narrator
Golden Years
Arthur
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
Narrator
North v South
John Claridge
Unforgotten
Father Robert Greaves
India's Frontier Railways
Narrator - (Voice)
Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk
Hope and Wire
Len Russell
From There to Here
Samuel
The Sorrows
Reflections on Titanic
Self
Outpost 11
Cranleigh
ParaNorman
Judge Hopkins (voice)
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Captain EJ Smith
Titanic: Case Closed
The Kid
Uncle David
Canoe Man
John Darwin
Indian Hill Railways
Self - Narrator (voice)
Valkyrie
General - Desert Sequence
Franklyn
Esser
Sunshine
George Crosby
Wild China
Himself - Narrator
Fairy Tales
Grettongrat
Exodus
Narrator (voice)
Titus: The Gorilla King
Narrator
Bombay Railway
Narrator
Save Angel Hope
Oscar Kurz
Exodus
Pharoah Mann
Bombay Railway
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Crumblegiant
Narrator
The Heart of the Earth
Sr. Crown
Five Days
Gerard Hopkirk
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Self - Narrator (voice)
Joy Division
Dennis
No Go: The Free Derry Story
Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
Self
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Narrator (voice)
Ocean Odyssey
Narrator (voice)
Tim Haines Deep Ocean
Erzähler
Surviving Disaster
Himself - Narrator
The Last Tommy
Narrator