Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 17, 1944
Place of Birth:
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
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Bernard Hill
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Responder | Tom Carson |
| 2015 | Unforgotten | Father Robert Greaves |
| 2015 | India's Frontier Railways | Narrator - (Voice) |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Duke of Norfolk |
| 2014 | From There to Here | Samuel |
| 2014 | Hope and Wire | Len Russell |
| 2010 | Indian Hill Railways | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | Sunshine | George Crosby |
| 2008 | Fairy Tales | |
| 2008 | Wild China | Himself - Narrator |
| 2007 | Five Days | Gerard Hopkirk |
| 2007 | Bombay Railway | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Surviving Disaster | Himself - Narrator |
| 2006 | Surviving Disaster | |
| 2004 | The Grid | |
| 2004 | Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief | Self |
| 2003 | One Life | |
| 1999 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch |
| 1995 | The Gambling Man | Frank nickle |
| 1994 | Once Upon A Time In The North | Len Tollit |
| 1993 | Lipstick on Your Collar | Uncle Fred |
| 1992 | HBO First Look | Self |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Bottom (voice) |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | Chief Constable Harmsworth |
| 1985 | Screen Two | John |
| 1983 | Natural World | |
| 1982 | Boys from the Blackstuff | Yosser Hughes |
| 1980 | Fox | Vin Fox |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | First Murderer/Sir William Brandon (uncredited)/Sheriff of Wiltshire (uncredited) |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Master Gunner/Duke of York |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Duke of York |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Carson |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | Gratus |
| 1974 | Village Hall | Policeman |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Graham |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Bernard Blincoe |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Edward |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Eric |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Sullivan |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Mick |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Simon Simpson |
| 1964 | Horizon | Narrator |