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Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill

ActingBorn December 17, 1944Died May 5, 2024 (age 79)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.

Filmography

2024
The Moor

as Thornley

Movie
2024
Forever Young

as Oscar Smith

Movie
2022
The Responder

as Tom Carson

TV
2018Movie
2016
Inside CERN

as Narrator

Movie
2016
Golden Years

as Arthur

Movie
2015
North v South

as John Claridge

Movie
2015
Unforgotten

as Father Robert Greaves

TV
2015
India's Frontier Railways

as Narrator - (Voice)

TV
2015
Wolf Hall

as Duke of Norfolk

TV
2014
Hope and Wire

as Len Russell

TV
2014TV
2013Movie
2012Movie
2012
Outpost 11

as Cranleigh

Movie
2012
ParaNorman

as Judge Hopkins (voice)

Movie
2012Movie
2010
The Kid

as Uncle David

Movie
2010
Canoe Man

as John Darwin

Movie
2010
Indian Hill Railways

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2008
Valkyrie

as General - Desert Sequence

Movie
2008
Franklyn

as Esser

Movie
2008
Sunshine

as George Crosby

TV
2008
Wild China

as Himself - Narrator

TV
2008
Fairy Tales

as Grettongrat

TV
2008
Exodus

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2008Movie
2008
Bombay Railway

as Narrator

Movie
2007
Save Angel Hope

as Oscar Kurz

Movie
2007
Exodus

as Pharoah Mann

Movie
2007
Bombay Railway

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2007
The Crumblegiant

as Narrator

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Five Days

as Gerard Hopkirk

TV
2006
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006
Joy Division

as Dennis

Movie
2006
No Go: The Free Derry Story

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006Movie
2006
Ocean Odyssey

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2006Movie
2006
Surviving Disaster

as Himself - Narrator

TV
2005
The Last Tommy

as Narrator

Movie
2005
A Very Social Secretary

as David Blunkett

Movie
2005Movie
2005
Heatwave

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2004Movie
2004
Wimbledon

as Edward Colt

Movie
2004TV
2004Movie
2003
Gothika

as Phil Parsons

Movie
2003TV
2002Movie
2000Movie
2000
Eisenstein

as The voice of Stalin

Movie
2000Movie
2000Movie
1999
The Criminal

as Det. Insp. Walker

Movie
1999Movie
1999Movie
1999
Great Expectations

as Abel Magwitch

Movie
1999
Great Expectations

as Abel Magwitch

TV
1999
True Crime

as Warden Luther Plunkitt

Movie
1999Movie
1997
Titanic

as Captain Smith

Movie
1997
The Mill on the Floss

as Edward Tulliver

Movie
1996
The Wind in the Willows

as The Engine Driver

Movie
1996
The Ghost and the Darkness

as Dr. David Hawthorne

Movie
1995
First Knight

as Knight (uncredited)

Movie
1995
The Gambling Man

as Frank nickle

TV
1995Movie
1994Movie
1994Movie
1994Movie
1993Movie
1993TV
1993
Shepherd on the Rock

as Tam Ferrier

Movie
1992
A Question of Identity

as Erwin van Haarlem

Movie
1992TV
1992
Between the Lines

as Chief Constable Harmsworth

TV
1992TV
1992
Double X: The Name of the Game

as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith

Movie
1992
A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Bottom (voice)

Movie
1992
The Law Lord

as Martin Allport

Movie
1990
Shoot the Revolution

as Octavian Barbu

Movie
1990
From Moscow to Pietushki

as Readings (voice)

Movie
1990
Mountains of the Moon

as Dr. Livingstone

Movie
1989
Shirley Valentine

as Joe Bradshaw

Movie
1988
Drowning by Numbers

as Henry Madgett

Movie
1987Movie
1987
Boy Soldier

as Officer

Movie
1986Movie
1986
ScreenPlay

as Octavian Barbu

TV
1985Movie
1985
No Surrender

as Bernard

Movie
1985
Restless Natives

as Will's father

Movie
1985Movie
1985
Screen Two

as John

TV
1985
Screen Two

as Tom Higdon

TV
1985
Screen Two

as Captain Larry

TV
1984
The Chain

as Nick

Movie
1984
Squaring the Circle

as Lech Walesa

Movie
1984
The Bounty

as William Cole

Movie
1984Movie
1983
Runners

as Trevor Field

Movie
1983Movie
1983
Henry VI Part 3

as Duke of York

Movie
1983
Henry VI Part 2

as Duke of York

Movie
1983
Henry VI Part 1

as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans

Movie
1982
Gandhi

as Sergeant Putnam

Movie
1982
Boys from the Blackstuff

as Yosser Hughes

TV
1981
A Turn for the Worse

as Simon Simpson

Movie
1981
Say No to Strangers

as Teresa's Dad

Movie
1980
Fox

as Vin Fox

Movie
1980
Fox

as Vin Fox

TV
1980
The Black Stuff

as Yosser Hughes

Movie
1978Movie
1978
The Spongers

as Sullivan

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Professional Foul

as Broadbent

Movie
1977TV
1977TV
1977Movie
1977
Childhood

as Janey's father

TV
1977
Our Flesh and Blood

as Bernard Blincoe

Movie
1976Movie
1976Movie
1976
I, Claudius

as Gratus

TV
1976
Trial by Combat

as Blind Freddie

Movie
1976
The Peddler

as Graham

Movie
1974
Village Hall

as Policeman

TV
1973TV
1973
Hard Labour

as Edward Thornley

Movie
1970TV
1970TV
1970TV
1970
Play for Today

as Bernard Blincoe

TV
1970TV
1970
Play for Today

as Sullivan

TV
1970
Play for Today

as Simon Simpson

TV
1964
Horizon

as Narrator

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayDecember 17, 1944
Day of DeathMay 5, 2024
Place of BirthBlackley, Manchester, England, UK
Popularity1.3