Bernard Hill
ActingAlso Known As
برنارد هیل
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.
Movies
(109 total)
Titanic
as Captain Smith
Valkyrie
as General - Desert Sequence
The Scorpion King
as Philos
ParaNorman
as Judge Hopkins (voice)
Gandhi
as Sergeant Putnam
Gothika
as Phil Parsons
First Knight
as Knight (uncredited)
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David Hawthorne
Wimbledon
as Edward Colt
True Crime
as Warden Luther Plunkitt
The Bounty
as William Cole
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
Franklyn
as Esser
Drowning by Numbers
as Henry Madgett
Shirley Valentine
as Joe Bradshaw
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as King William III
Mountains of the Moon
as Dr. Livingstone
The Wind in the Willows
as The Engine Driver
TV Shows
(43 total)
Unforgotten
as Father Robert Greaves
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk
I, Claudius
as Gratus
The Responder
as Tom Carson
Wild China
as Himself - Narrator
Five Days
as Gerard Hopkirk
Horizon
as Narrator
Lipstick on Your Collar
as Uncle Fred
Boys from the Blackstuff
as Yosser Hughes
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Bottom (voice)
Between the Lines
as Chief Constable Harmsworth
From There to Here
as Samuel
HBO First Look
as Self
Play for Today
as Graham
Play for Today
as Edward
Play for Today
as Eric
Play for Today
as Bernard Blincoe
Play for Today
as Mick