Bernard Hill
Acting
- Born:
- 1944-12-17
- Died:
- 2024-05-05
- 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
Filmography
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
The Moor
Forever Young
Remembers…
The Responder
Segunda oportunidad
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Inside CERN
Golden Years
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
North v South
Unforgotten
India's Frontier Railways
Wolf Hall
Hope and Wire
From There to Here
The Sorrows
Reflections on Titanic
Outpost 11
ParaNorman
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Titanic: Case Closed
The Kid
Canoe Man
Indian Hill Railways
Valkyrie
Franklyn
Sunshine
Wild China
Fairy Tales
Exodus
Titus: The Gorilla King
Bombay Railway
Save Angel Hope
Exodus
Bombay Railway
The Crumblegiant
The Heart of the Earth
Five Days
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
Joy Division
No Go: The Free Derry Story
The Making of The Two Towers
The Making of The Return of the King
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Ocean Odyssey
Tim Haines Deep Ocean
Surviving Disaster
The Last Tommy
A Very Social Secretary
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Collectormania 7
Heatwave
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Wimbledon
The Grid
On the Set of 'Gothika'