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.

Bernard Hill

Biography

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Filmography:

Horizon (1964)

Play for Today (1970)

Hard Labour (1973)

Village Hall (1974)

I, Claudius (1976)

Trial by Combat (1976)

It Could Happen to You (1976)

Housewives' Choice (1976)

The Peddler (1976)

BBC2 Play of the Week (1977)

Professional Foul (1977)

Our Flesh and Blood (1977)

Daft Mam Blues (1977)

Pit Strike (1977)

She Fell Among Thieves (1978)

The Spongers (1978)

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly (1978)

Fox (1980)

The Black Stuff (1980)

A Turn for the Worse (1981)

Gandhi (1982)

Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)

Henry VI Part 1 (1983)

Henry VI Part 2 (1983)

Henry VI Part 3 (1983)

The Tragedy of Richard III (1983)

Runners (1983)

The Bounty (1984)

Squaring the Circle (1984)

The Chain (1984)

Restless Natives (1985)

Screen Two (1985)

No Surrender (1985)

The Burston Rebellion (1985)

Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)

Bellman and True (1987)

Boy Soldier (1987)

Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Shirley Valentine (1989)

Mountains of the Moon (1990)

From Moscow to Pietushki (1990)

Shoot the Revolution (1990)

Between the Lines (1992)

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992)

Double X: The Name of the Game (1992)

The Law Lord (1992)

A Question of Identity (1992)

Lipstick on Your Collar (1993)

Shepherd on the Rock (1993)

Dirtysomething (1994)

Speaking In Tongues (1994)

Skallagrigg (1994)

First Knight (1995)

The Gambling Man (1995)

Madagascar Skin (1995)

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

The Wind in the Willows (1996)

Titanic (1997)

The Mill on the Floss (1997)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

True Crime (1999)

The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

Great Expectations (1999)

The Criminal (1999)

Great Expectations (1999)

The Titanic Chronicles (1999)

Going Off Big Time (2000)

Eisenstein (2000)

A Question of Faith (2000)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

The Scorpion King (2002)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003)

Gothika (2003)

Wimbledon (2004)