Bernard Hill
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1944-12-17
Deathday 2024-05-05 (79 years old)
Place of Birth Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Bernard Hill
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
Actor
as Narrator
as Thornley
as Oscar Smith
as Tom Carson
as Peter
as Richard
as Narrator
as Arthur
as Narrator
as John Claridge
as Father Robert Greaves
as Narrator - (Voice)
as Duke of Norfolk
as Len Russell
as Samuel
as Self
as Cranleigh
as Judge Hopkins (voice)
as Captain EJ Smith
as Uncle David
as John Darwin
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as General - Desert Sequence
as Esser
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Narrator
as George Crosby
as Himself - Narrator
as Oscar Kurz
as Pharoah Mann
as Sr. Crown
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Gerard Hopkirk
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Dennis
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself - Narrator
as Narrator
as David Blunkett
as King William III
as Narrator
as Edward Colt
as Phil Parsons
as John Joe
as Théoden
as Philos
as Murray
as The voice of Stalin
as Frederick
as Det. Insp. Walker
as Egeus
as Susan's Father
as Abel Magwitch
as Warden Luther Plunkitt
as (voice)
as Host
as Edward Smith
as Edward Tulliver
as The Engine Driver
as Dr. David Hawthorne
as Knight (uncredited)
as Flint
as Frank nickle
as Joe
as Larry
as John
as Len Tollit
as Mike
as Tam Ferrier
as Uncle Fred
as Erwin van Haarlem
as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
as Martin Allport
as Bottom (voice)
as Chief Constable Harmsworth
as Self
as Octavian Barbu
as Readings (voice)
as Dr. Livingstone
as Joe Bradshaw
as Madgett
as Hiller
as Officer
as Messenger
as Bernard
as Will's father
as Tom Higdon
as John
as Lech Walesa
as William Cole
as Nick
as Trevor Field
as First Murderer
as Duke of York
as Duke of York
as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
as Sergeant Putnam
as Yosser Hughes
as Simon Simpson
as Vin Fox
as Yosser Hughes
as Vin Fox
as Mick
as Carson
as Sullivan
as Tom
as Broadbent
as Billy
as Bernard Blincoe
as Carson
as Syph
as Eric
as Blind Freddie
as Graham
as Gratus
as Policeman
as Edward Thornley
as Graham
as Edward
as Eric
as Bernard Blincoe
as Mick
as Sullivan
as Simon Simpson
as Narrator
Crew
as In Memory Of