Bernard Hill
Actor
Born December 17, 1944 in Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
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
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
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
Titus: The Gorilla King
Narrator
Bombay Railway
Narrator
Save Angel Hope
Oscar Kurz
Exodus
Pharoah Mann
Bombay Railway
Self - Narrator (voice)
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)
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Narrator (voice)
Ocean Odyssey
Narrator (voice)
Tim Haines Deep Ocean
Erzähler
Surviving Disaster
Himself - Narrator
A Very Social Secretary
David Blunkett
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
King William III
Heatwave
Narrator (voice)
Beatles Biggest Secrets
Narrator
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Self
Wimbledon
Edward Colt
The Grid
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Self
On the Set of 'Gothika'
Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Théoden
Gothika
Phil Parsons
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
John Joe
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Théoden
The Scorpion King
Philos
Going Off Big Time
Murray
Eisenstein
The voice of Stalin
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Narrator (voice)
A Question of Faith
Frederick
The Criminal
Det. Insp. Walker
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Egeus
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Susan's Father
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch
True Crime
Warden Luther Plunkitt
The Titanic Chronicles
(voice)
Titanic
Captain Smith
The Mill on the Floss
Edward Tulliver
The Wind in the Willows
The Engine Driver
The Ghost and the Darkness
Dr. David Hawthorne
First Knight
Knight (uncredited)
The Gambling Man
Frank nickle
Madagascar Skin
Flint
Speaking In Tongues
Joe
Dirtysomething
Larry
Skallagrigg
John
The Art of Tripping
Lipstick on Your Collar
Uncle Fred
Shepherd on the Rock
Tam Ferrier
A Question of Identity
Erwin van Haarlem
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Bottom (voice)
Between the Lines
Chief Constable Harmsworth
HBO First Look
Self
Double X: The Name of the Game
Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bottom (voice)
The Law Lord
Martin Allport
Shoot the Revolution
Octavian Barbu
From Moscow to Pietushki
Readings (voice)
Mountains of the Moon
Dr. Livingstone
Shirley Valentine
Joe Bradshaw
Drowning by Numbers
Henry Madgett
Bellman and True
Hiller
Boy Soldier
Officer
Theban Plays: Antigone
Messenger
ScreenPlay
Octavian Barbu
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
John Lennon
No Surrender
Bernard
Restless Natives
Will's father
The Burston Rebellion
Tom Higdon
Screen Two
John
The Chain
Nick
Squaring the Circle
Lech Walesa
The Bounty
William Cole
Natural World
Runners
Trevor Field
The Tragedy of Richard III
First Murderer
Henry VI Part 3
Duke of York
Henry VI Part 2
Duke of York
Henry VI Part 1
Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
Gandhi
Sergeant Putnam
Boys from the Blackstuff
Yosser Hughes
A Turn for the Worse
Simon Simpson
Fox
Vin Fox
The Black Stuff
Yosser Hughes
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Mick
She Fell Among Thieves
Carson
The Spongers
Sullivan
Pit Strike
Tom
Professional Foul
Broadbent
BBC2 Play of the Week
Carson
Daft Mam Blues
Billy
Our Flesh and Blood
Bernard Blincoe
It Could Happen to You
Syph
Housewives' Choice
Eric
I, Claudius
Gratus
Trial by Combat
Blind Freddie
The Peddler
Graham
Village Hall
Policeman
Hard Labour
Edward Thornley
Play for Today
Graham
Horizon
Narrator