Bernard Hill
Acting
1944-12-17 · 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
2024 · Movie
The Moor
2024 · Movie
Forever Young
2024 · Movie
Remembers…
2022 · Series
The Responder
2022 · Series
Segunda oportunidad
2018 · Movie
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
2017 · Movie
Inside CERN
2016 · Movie
Golden Years
2016 · Movie
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
2016 · Movie
North v South
2015 · Movie
Unforgotten
2015 · Series
India's Frontier Railways
2015 · Series
Wolf Hall
2015 · Series
Hope and Wire
2014 · Series
From There to Here
2014 · Series
The Sorrows
2013 · Movie
Reflections on Titanic
2012 · Movie
Outpost 11
2012 · Movie
ParaNorman
2012 · Movie
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
2012 · Movie
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
2012 · Movie
Titanic: Case Closed
2012 · Movie
The Kid
2010 · Movie
Canoe Man
2010 · Movie
Indian Hill Railways
2010 · Series
Valkyrie
2008 · Movie
Franklyn
2008 · Movie
Sunshine
2008 · Series
Wild China
2008 · Series
Fairy Tales
2008 · Series
Exodus
2008 · Movie
Bombay Railway
2008 · Movie
Titus: The Gorilla King
2008 · Movie
Save Angel Hope
2007 · Movie
Exodus
2007 · Movie
Bombay Railway
2007 · Series
The Crumblegiant
2007 · Movie
The Heart of the Earth
2007 · Movie
Five Days
2007 · Series
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
2006 · Movie
Joy Division
2006 · Movie
No Go: The Free Derry Story
2006 · Movie
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2006 · Movie
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2006 · Movie
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
2006 · Movie
Ocean Odyssey
2006 · Movie
Tim Haines Deep Ocean
2006 · Movie
Surviving Disaster
2006 · Series
The Last Tommy
2005 · Movie
A Very Social Secretary
2005 · Movie
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005 · Movie
Collectormania 7
2005 · Movie
Heatwave
2005 · Movie
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
2005 · Movie
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004 · Movie
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
2004 · Series
Wimbledon
2004 · Movie
The Grid
2004 · Series
On the Set of 'Gothika'
2004 · Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Movie
Gothika
2003 · Movie
One Life
2003 · Series
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003 · Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · Movie
The Scorpion King
2002 · Movie
Going Off Big Time
2000 · Movie
Eisenstein
2000 · Movie
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000 · Movie
A Question of Faith
2000 · Movie
The Criminal
1999 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999 · Movie
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999 · Movie
Great Expectations
1999 · Series
Great Expectations
1999 · Movie
True Crime
1999 · Movie
The Titanic Chronicles
1999 · Movie
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
1998 · Movie
Titanic
1997 · Movie
The Mill on the Floss
1997 · Movie
The Wind in the Willows
1996 · Movie
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996 · Movie
First Knight
1995 · Movie
The Gambling Man
1995 · Series
Madagascar Skin
1995 · Movie
Speaking In Tongues
1994 · Movie
Once Upon A Time In The North
1994 · Series
Dirtysomething
1994 · Movie
Skallagrigg
1994 · Movie
Olly's Prison
1993 · Movie
The Art of Tripping
1993 · Movie
Lipstick on Your Collar
1993 · Series
Shepherd on the Rock
1993 · Movie
A Question of Identity
1992 · Movie
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Series
Between the Lines
1992 · Series
HBO First Look
1992 · Series
Double X: The Name of the Game
1992 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 · Movie
The Law Lord
1992 · Movie
Shrinks
1991 · Series
Shoot the Revolution
1990 · Movie
From Moscow to Pietushki
1990 · Movie
Mountains of the Moon
1990 · Movie
Shirley Valentine
1989 · Movie
Drowning by Numbers
1988 · Movie
Bellman and True
1987 · Movie
Boy Soldier
1987 · Movie
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986 · Movie
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
1985 · Movie
No Surrender
1985 · Movie
Restless Natives
1985 · Movie
The Burston Rebellion
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
The Chain
1984 · Movie
Squaring the Circle
1984 · Movie
The Bounty
1984 · Movie
Samson and Delilah
1984 · Movie
Natural World
1983 · Series
Runners
1983 · Movie
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983 · Movie
Henry VI Part 3
1983 · Movie
Henry VI Part 2
1983 · Movie
Henry VI Part 1
1983 · Movie
Gandhi
1982 · Movie
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982 · Series
A Turn for the Worse
1981 · Movie
Say No to Strangers
1981 · Movie
Fox
1980 · Series
Fox
1980 · Movie
The Black Stuff
1980 · Movie
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978 · Movie
Pickersgill People
1978 · Series
She Fell Among Thieves
1978 · Movie
The Spongers
1978 · Movie
Premiere
1977 · Series
Pit Strike
1977 · Movie
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Series
Professional Foul
1977 · Movie
Daft Mam Blues
1977 · Movie
Childhood
1977 · Series
Our Flesh and Blood
1977 · Movie
It Could Happen to You
1976 · Movie
Housewives' Choice
1976 · Movie
I, Claudius
1976 · Series
Trial by Combat
1976 · Movie
The Peddler
1976 · Movie
Village Hall
1974 · Series
Second City Firsts
1973 · Series
Hard Labour
1973 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Horizon
1964 · Series