Bernard Hill
- Acting
- December 17, 1944 · Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
- May 5, 2024
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
- Valkyrie · General - Desert Sequence
- Franklyn · Esser
- Sunshine · George Crosby
- Wild China · Self
- 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
- The Crumblegiant · Narrator
- The Heart of the Earth · Sr. Crown
- Five Days · Gerard Hopkirk
- JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed · Self
- 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 · Self
- The Last Tommy · Narrator
- A Very Social Secretary · David Blunkett
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse · King William III
- Collectormania 7 · Self
- Heatwave · Narrator (Voice)
- Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
- Beatles Biggest Secrets · Narrator
- Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief · Self
- Wimbledon · Edward Colt
- The Grid
- On the Set of 'Gothika' · Self
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · Théoden
- Gothika · Phil Parsons
- One Life
- The Boys & Girl from County Clare · John Joe
- 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: Secrets Revealed · Host
- Titanic · Captain Smith
- The Mill on the Floss · Edward Tulliver