Bernard Hill

Known for ActingBorn 1944-12-17Died 2024-05-05Blackley, Manchester, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Last Tommy

The Spongers

Titus: The Gorilla King

Tim Haines Deep Ocean

Titanic: Secrets Revealed

Olly's Prison

The Art of Tripping

The Law Lord

Theban Plays: Antigone

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Titanic Chronicles

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Inside CERN

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

Wild China

From Moscow to Pietushki

Sunshine

Titanic

The Burston Rebellion

Henry VI Part 3

The Tragedy of Richard III

Village Hall

Unforgotten

Wolf Hall

Boys from the Blackstuff

Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron

I, Claudius

Trial by Combat

Henry VI Part 1

Ocean Odyssey

From There to Here

Gandhi

Boy Soldier

Henry VI Part 2

Reflections on Titanic

Professional Foul

JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed

The Responder

Natural World

The Black Stuff

ParaNorman

Valkyrie

Horizon

Screen Two

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary