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
- The Responder as Tom Carson
- Remembers…
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)
- Reflections on Titanic as Self
- Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron as Captain EJ Smith
- Titanic: Case Closed
- Titanic: Southampton Remembers
- Outpost 11 as Cranleigh
2010
- The Kid as Uncle David
- Indian Hill Railways as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Canoe Man as John Darwin
2008
- Wild China as Himself - Narrator
- Fairy Tales as Grettongrat
- Valkyrie as General - Desert Sequence
- Franklyn as Esser
- Sunshine as George Crosby
- Exodus as Narrator (voice)
- Bombay Railway as Narrator
- Titus: The Gorilla King as Narrator
2007
- Five Days as Gerard Hopkirk
- The Heart of the Earth as Sr. Crown
- Save Angel Hope as Oscar Kurz
- The Crumblegiant as Narrator
- Exodus as Pharoah Mann
- Bombay Railway as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
- Joy Division as Dennis
- The Making of 'The Return of the King' as Self
- Ocean Odyssey as Narrator (voice)
- The Making of 'The Two Towers' as Self
- Surviving Disaster as Himself - Narrator
- No Go: The Free Derry Story as Narrator (voice)
- JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Tim Haines Deep Ocean as Erzähler
- Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster as Narrator (voice)
2005
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as King William III
- Collectormania 7 as Self
- A Very Social Secretary as David Blunkett
- Heatwave as Narrator (voice)
- Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
- The Last Tommy as Narrator
2004
- The Grid
- Wimbledon as Edward Colt
- 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
2002
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Théoden
- The Scorpion King as Philos
2000
- A Question of Faith as Frederick
- Going Off Big Time as Murray
- Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano as Narrator (voice)
- Eisenstein as The voice of Stalin
1999
- True Crime as Warden Luther Plunkitt
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Egeus
- Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- The Loss of Sexual Innocence as Susan's Father
- Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- The Titanic Chronicles as (voice)
- The Criminal as Det. Insp. Walker
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
- Speaking In Tongues as Joe
- Skallagrigg as John
1993
- Lipstick on Your Collar as Uncle Fred
- Shepherd on the Rock as Tam Ferrier
- The Art of Tripping
- 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)
- Double X: The Name of the Game as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Bottom (voice)
- The Law Lord as Martin Allport
- A Question of Identity as Erwin van Haarlem
1991
- Shrinks as Frank Beasley
1990
- Mountains of the Moon as Dr. Livingstone
- Shoot the Revolution as Octavian Barbu
- From Moscow to Pietushki as Readings (voice)
1989
- 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
- Squaring the Circle as Lech Walesa
- The Chain as Nick
- Samson and Delilah as Willie
1983
- Natural World
- Henry VI Part 2 as Duke of York
- The Tragedy of Richard III as First Murderer
- Henry VI Part 1 as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
- Henry VI Part 3 as Duke of York
- Runners as Trevor Field
1982
- Boys from the Blackstuff as Yosser Hughes
- Gandhi as Sergeant Putnam
1981
- A Turn for the Worse as Simon Simpson
- Say No to Strangers as Teresa's Dad
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
- Our Flesh and Blood as Bernard Blincoe
- Pit Strike as Tom
- Professional Foul as Broadbent
- Daft Mam Blues as Billy
1976
- I, Claudius as Gratus
- Housewives' Choice as Eric
- Trade Unions: Seven Days that Shook Young Jim as Bernie
- Trial by Combat as Blind Freddie
- It Could Happen to You as Syph
- The Peddler as Graham
1974
- Village Hall as Policeman
1973
- Second City Firsts as Billy
- Hard Labour as Edward Thornley
1970
- Play for Today as Edward
1964
- Horizon as Narrator