Bernard Hill
Born: 1944-12-17 in Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Died: 2024-05-05
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim ... (In Memory Of)
- The Moor as Thornley
- Forever Young as Oscar Smith
2022
- Remembers…
- The Responder as Tom Carson
2018
- Segunda oportunidad as Peter
2017
- Interlude: City of a Dead Woman as Richard
2016
- Golden Years as Arthur
- Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary as Narrator
- Inside CERN as Narrator
2015
- Unforgotten as Father Robert Greaves
- Wolf Hall as Duke of Norfolk
- India's Frontier Railways as Narrator - (Voice)
- North v South as John Claridge
2014
- From There to Here as Samuel
- Hope and Wire as Len Russell
2013
2012
- ParaNorman as Judge Hopkins (voice)
- Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron as Captain EJ Smith
- Titanic: Case Closed
- Reflections on Titanic as Self
- Outpost 11 as Cranleigh
- Titanic: Southampton Remembers
2010
- The Kid as Uncle David
- Indian Hill Railways as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Canoe Man as John Darwin
2008
- Valkyrie as General - Desert Sequence
- Wild China as Himself - Narrator
- Fairy Tales as Grettongrat
- Sunshine as George Crosby
- Franklyn as Esser
- Exodus as Narrator (voice)
- Titus: The Gorilla King as Narrator
- Bombay Railway as Narrator
2007
- Five Days as Gerard Hopkirk
- Exodus as Pharoah Mann
- The Heart of the Earth as Sr. Crown
- Bombay Railway as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Save Angel Hope as Oscar Kurz
- The Crumblegiant as Narrator
2006
- Joy Division as Dennis
- Surviving Disaster as Himself - Narrator
- The Making of 'The Two Towers' as Self
- The Making of 'The Return of the King' as Self
- Ocean Odyssey as Narrator (voice)
- No Go: The Free Derry Story as Narrator (voice)
- Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster as Narrator (voice)
- JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Tim Haines Deep Ocean as Erzähler
2005
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as King William III
- Heatwave as Narrator (voice)
- Collectormania 7 as Self
- A Very Social Secretary as David Blunkett
- The Last Tommy as Narrator
- Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
2004
- Wimbledon as Edward Colt
- The Grid
- Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief as Self
- On the Set of 'Gothika' as Self
- Beatles Biggest Secrets as Narrator
2003
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Théoden
- Gothika as Phil Parsons
- One Life
- The Boys & Girl from County Clare as John Joe
- The Two Towers: Weta workshop as Self
- The Two Towers: Designing Middle-earth as Self
2002
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Théoden
- The Scorpion King as Philos
2000
- Going Off Big Time as Murray
- A Question of Faith as Frederick
- Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano as Narrator (voice)
- Eisenstein as The voice of Stalin
1999
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Egeus
- True Crime as Warden Luther Plunkitt
- Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- The Loss of Sexual Innocence as Susan's Father
- Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- The Criminal as Det. Insp. Walker
- The Titanic Chronicles as (voice)
1998
- Titanic: Secrets Revealed as Host
1997
- Titanic as Captain Smith
- The Mill on the Floss as Edward Tulliver
1996
- The Ghost and the Darkness as Dr. David Hawthorne
- The Wind in the Willows as The Engine Driver
1995
- First Knight as Knight (uncredited)
- The Gambling Man as Frank nickle
- Madagascar Skin as Flint
1994
- Once Upon A Time In The North as Len Tollit
- Stages as Joe
- Dirtysomething as Larry
- Skallagrigg as John
- Speaking In Tongues as Joe
1993
- Lipstick on Your Collar as Uncle Fred
- The Art of Tripping
- Shepherd on the Rock as Tam Ferrier
- Olly's Prison as Mike
1992
- Between the Lines as Chief Constable Harmsworth
- HBO First Look as Self
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Bottom (voice)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Bottom (voice)
- Double X: The Name of the Game as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
- A Question of Identity as Erwin van Haarlem
- The Law Lord as Martin Allport
1991
- Shrinks as Frank Beasley
1990
- Mountains of the Moon as Dr. Livingstone
- From Moscow to Pietushki as Readings (voice)
- Shoot the Revolution as Octavian Barbu
1989
- About Face as Bryce
- Shirley Valentine as Joe Bradshaw
1988
- Drowning by Numbers as Henry Madgett
1987
- Bellman and True as Hiller
- Boy Soldier as Officer
1986
- ScreenPlay as Octavian Barbu
- Theban Plays: Antigone as Messenger
1985
- Screen Two as John
- Restless Natives as Will's father
- John Lennon: A Journey in the Life as John Lennon
- No Surrender as Bernard
- The Burston Rebellion as Tom Higdon
1984
- The Bounty as William Cole
- Samson and Delilah as Willie
- Squaring the Circle as Lech Walesa
- The Chain as Nick
1983
- Natural World
- The Tragedy of Richard III as First Murderer
- Henry VI Part 1 as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
- Runners as Trevor Field
- Henry VI Part 3 as Duke of York
- Henry VI Part 2 as Duke of York
1982
- Gandhi as Sergeant Putnam
- Boys from the Blackstuff as Yosser Hughes
1981
- Say No to Strangers as Teresa's Dad
- A Turn for the Worse as Simon Simpson
1980
- Fox as Vin Fox
- The Glamour Girls as Boris
- Fox as Vin Fox
- The Black Stuff as Yosser Hughes
1978
- Pickersgill People as Harry 'Sharky' Finn
- She Fell Among Thieves as Carson
- Soldiers Talking, Cleanly as Mick
- The Spongers as Sullivan
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Carson
- Premiere as Tom
- Childhood as Janey's father
- Daft Mam Blues as Billy
- Professional Foul as Broadbent
- Our Flesh and Blood as Bernard Blincoe
- Pit Strike as Tom
1976
- I, Claudius as Gratus
- Housewives' Choice as Eric
- Trial by Combat as Blind Freddie
- It Could Happen to You as Syph
- The Peddler as Graham
- Trade Unions: Seven Days that Shook Young Jim as Bernie
1974
- Village Hall as Policeman
1973
- Second City Firsts as Billy
- Hard Labour as Edward Thornley
1970
- Play for Today as Graham
1964
- Horizon as Narrator