Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill 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: Acting

Born: Blackley, Manchester, England, UK, 1944-12-17

Died: 2024-05-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	Trial by Combat	Blind Freddie	77
2	1977	Daft Mam Blues	Billy	0
3	1978	The Spongers	Sullivan	0
4	1981	Say No to Strangers	Teresa's Dad	70
5	1983	Henry VI Part 1	Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans	75
6	1983	Henry VI Part 2	Duke of York	70
7	1983	Henry VI Part 3	Duke of York	70
8	1983	The Tragedy of Richard III	First Murderer	60
9	1984	The Chain	Nick	68
10	1984	The Bounty	William Cole	67
11	1985	Restless Natives	Will's father	67
12	1985	No Surrender	Bernard	65
13	1987	Bellman and True	Hiller	65
14	1988	Drowning by Numbers	Madgett	71
15	1989	Shirley Valentine	Joe Bradshaw	63
16	1990	Mountains of the Moon	Dr. Livingstone	65
17	1990	Shoot the Revolution	Octavian Barbu	0
18	1993	Shepherd on the Rock	Tam Ferrier	55
19	1995	Madagascar Skin	Flint	55
20	1996	The Ghost and the Darkness	Dr. David Hawthorne	68
21	1996	The Wind in the Willows	The Engine Driver	56
22	1999	True Crime	Warden Luther Plunkitt	65
23	1999	Great Expectations	Abel Magwitch	62
24	1999	The Loss of Sexual Innocence	Susan's Father	57
25	1999	The Criminal	Det. Insp. Walker	48
26	2000	Going Off Big Time	Murray	56
27	2002	The Scorpion King	Philos	56
28	2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Théoden	84
29	2003	The Boys & Girl from County Clare	John Joe	60
30	2003	Gothika	Phil Parsons	61
31	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Théoden	85
32	2004	Wimbledon	Edward Colt	62
33	2005	Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony		0
34	2005	A Very Social Secretary	David Blunkett	61
35	2005	The Last Tommy	Narrator	0
36	2006	Ocean Odyssey	Narrator (voice)	74
37	2006	Joy Division	Dennis	52
38	2006	JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed	Self - Narrator (voice)	72
39	2007	The Heart of the Earth	Sr. Crown	53
40	2007	Exodus	Pharoah Mann	58
41	2008	Titus: The Gorilla King	Narrator	90
42	2008	Franklyn	Esser	60
43	2010	The Kid	Uncle David	67
44		The Crumblegiant	Narrator	0
45	1973	Hard Labour	Edward Thornley	65
46	1976	The Peddler	Graham	0
47	1976	Housewives' Choice	Eric	0
48	1976	It Could Happen to You	Syph	10
49	1977	Our Flesh and Blood	Bernard Blincoe	0
50	1977	Professional Foul	Broadbent	60
51	1977	Pit Strike	Tom	0
52	1978	She Fell Among Thieves	Carson	70
53	1978	Soldiers Talking, Cleanly	Mick	0
54	1980	The Black Stuff	Yosser Hughes	74
55	1980	Fox	Vin Fox	10
56	1981	A Turn for the Worse	Simon Simpson	0
57	1982	Gandhi	Sergeant Putnam	76
58	1983	Runners	Trevor Field	48
59	1984	Squaring the Circle	Lech Walesa	50
60	1985	The Burston Rebellion	Tom Higdon	0
61	1986	Theban Plays: Antigone	Messenger	0
62	1987	Boy Soldier	Officer	0
63	1990	From Moscow to Pietushki	Readings (voice)	79
64	1992	The Law Lord	Martin Allport	0
65	1992	Double X: The Name of the Game	Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith	50
66	1992	A Question of Identity	Erwin van Haarlem	0
67	1993	The Art of Tripping		0
68	1993	Olly's Prison	Mike	90
69	1994	Skallagrigg	John	10
70	1994	Dirtysomething	Larry	50
71	1994	Speaking In Tongues	Joe	0
72	1995	First Knight	Knight (uncredited)	61
73	1997	The Mill on the Floss	Edward Tulliver	60
74	1997	Titanic	Captain Smith	79
75	1998	Titanic: Secrets Revealed	Host	0
76	1999	The Titanic Chronicles	(voice)	70
77	1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Egeus	64
78	2000	A Question of Faith	Frederick	57
79	2000	Eisenstein	The voice of Stalin	55
80	2003	The Making of The Two Towers		88
81	2004	The Making of the Return of the King	Self	88
82	2004	Beatles Biggest Secrets	Narrator	0
83	2005	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse	King William III	63
84	2005	Titanic: Behind The Scenes	Self / Edward Smith (archive footage)	0
85	2005	$200,000,001: A Ship's Odyssey (The Titanic Crew Video)	Self / Edward Smith (archive footage)	0
86	2006	Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster	Narrator (voice)	0
87	2006	No Go: The Free Derry Story	Narrator (voice)	0
88	2007	Save Angel Hope	Oscar Kurz	44
89	2008	Bombay Railway	Narrator	0
90	2008	Exodus	Narrator (voice)	0
91	2008	Valkyrie	General - Desert Sequence	69
92	2010	Canoe Man	John Darwin	40
93	2012	Titanic: Case Closed		0
94	2012	Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron	Captain EJ Smith	75
95	2012	Titanic: Southampton Remembers		0
96	2012	ParaNorman	Judge Hopkins (voice)	70
97	2012	Outpost 11	Cranleigh	41
98	2012	Reflections on Titanic	Self	73
99	2013	The Sorrows		0
100	2015	North v South	John Claridge	51
101	2016	Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary	Narrator	68
102	2016	Golden Years	Arthur	63
103	2016	Inside CERN	Narrator	80
104	2017	Interlude: City of a Dead Woman	Richard	30
105	2018	Segunda oportunidad	Peter	55
106	2024	Forever Young	Oscar Smith	55
107	2024	The Moor	Thornley	56

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Horizon	Narrator	75
2	1970	Play for Today	Edward	63
3	1970	Play for Today	Graham	63
4	1970	Play for Today	Eric	63
5	1970	Play for Today	Bernard Blincoe	63
6	1970	Play for Today	Sullivan	63
7	1970	Play for Today	Mick	63
8	1970	Play for Today	Simon Simpson	63
9	1974	Village Hall	Policeman	0
10	1976	I, Claudius	Gratus	78
11	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Carson	70
12	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Broadbent	70
13	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	First Murderer/Sir William Brandon (uncredited)/Sheriff of Wiltshire (uncredited)	60
14	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Master Gunner/Duke of York	60
15	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Duke of York	60
16	1980	Fox	Vin Fox	57
17	1982	Boys from the Blackstuff	Yosser Hughes	77
18	1983	Natural World		71
19	1985	Screen Two	John	68
20	1992	HBO First Look	Self	49
21	1992	Between the Lines	Chief Constable Harmsworth	56
22	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Bottom (voice)	64
23	1993	Lipstick on Your Collar	Uncle Fred	71
24	1994	Once Upon A Time In The North	Len Tollit	50
25	1995	The Gambling Man	Frank nickle	55
26	1999	Great Expectations	Abel Magwitch	0
27	2003	One Life		0
28	2004	The Grid		65
29	2004	Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief	Self	80
30	2006	Surviving Disaster	Himself - Narrator	67
31	2006	Surviving Disaster		67
32	2007	Five Days	Gerard Hopkirk	57
33	2007	Bombay Railway	Self - Narrator (voice)	10
34	2008	Fairy Tales		0
35	2008	Wild China	Himself - Narrator	79
36	2008	Sunshine	George Crosby	78
37	2010	Indian Hill Railways	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
38	2014	From There to Here	Samuel	73
39	2014	Hope and Wire	Len Russell	0
40	2015	Wolf Hall	Duke of Norfolk	75
41	2015	India's Frontier Railways	Narrator - (Voice)	0
42	2015	Unforgotten	Father Robert Greaves	76
43	2022	The Responder	Tom Carson	71

Bernard Hill

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