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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 17, 1944
Died
May 5, 2024
Place of Birth
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Also Known As
- برنارد هیل
Bernard Hill
1.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.7
Thornley
The Moor
2024
5.5
Oscar Smith
Forever Young
2024
7.1
Tom Carson
The Responder
2022
5.5
Peter
Segunda oportunidad
2018
3.0
Richard
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
2017
8.0
Narrator
Inside CERN
2016
6.3
Arthur
Golden Years
2016
6.8
Narrator
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
2016
5.1
John Claridge
North v South
2015
7.5
Father Robert Greaves
Unforgotten
2015
Credits
The Moor
as Thornley
2024
5.7
Forever Young
as Oscar Smith
2024
5.5
The Responder
as Tom Carson
2022
7.1
Segunda oportunidad
as Peter
2018
5.5
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
as Richard
2017
3.0
Inside CERN
as Narrator
2016
8.0
Golden Years
as Arthur
2016
6.3
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
as Narrator
2016
6.8
North v South
as John Claridge
2015
5.1
Unforgotten
as Father Robert Greaves
2015
7.5
India's Frontier Railways
as Narrator - (Voice)
2015
0.0
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk
2015
7.5
Hope and Wire
as Len Russell
2014
0.0
From There to Here
as Samuel
2014
7.3
The Sorrows
2013
0.0
Reflections on Titanic
as Self
2012
7.3
Outpost 11
as Cranleigh
2012
4.2
ParaNorman
as Judge Hopkins (voice)
2012
7.0
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
2012
0.0
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
as Captain EJ Smith
2012
7.5
Titanic: Case Closed
2012
5.0
The Kid
as Uncle David
2010
6.4
Canoe Man
as John Darwin
2010
4.0
Indian Hill Railways
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
6.0
Valkyrie
as General - Desert Sequence
2008
6.9
Franklyn
as Esser
2008
6.0
Sunshine
as George Crosby
2008
7.8
Wild China
as Himself - Narrator
2008
7.9
Fairy Tales
as Grettongrat
2008
0.0
🎬
Exodus
as Narrator (voice)
2008
0.0
Bombay Railway
as Narrator
2008
0.0
Titus: The Gorilla King
as Narrator
2008
9.0
Save Angel Hope
as Oscar Kurz
2007
4.4
Exodus
as Pharoah Mann
2007
5.8
Bombay Railway
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2007
1.0
The Heart of the Earth
as Sr. Crown
2007
4.9
Five Days
as Gerard Hopkirk
2007
5.9
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
7.2
Joy Division
as Dennis
2006
5.0
No Go: The Free Derry Story
as Narrator (voice)
2006
0.0
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
as Narrator (voice)
2006
0.0
Ocean Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)
2006
7.4
Surviving Disaster
as Himself - Narrator
2006
6.7
Surviving Disaster
2006
6.7
🎬
The Last Tommy
as Narrator
2005
0.0
A Very Social Secretary
as David Blunkett
2005
6.1
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as King William III
2005
6.2
🎬
Heatwave
as Narrator (voice)
2005
0.0
🎬
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
2005
0.0
Beatles Biggest Secrets
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as Self
2004
8.0
Wimbledon
as Edward Colt
2004
6.2
The Grid
2004
6.5
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
8.8
🎬
On the Set of 'Gothika'
as Self
2004
0.0
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Théoden
2003
8.5
Gothika
as Phil Parsons
2003
6.1
🎬
One Life
2003
0.0
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
as John Joe
2003
5.8
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003
8.8
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Théoden
2002
8.4
The Scorpion King
as Philos
2002
5.6
Going Off Big Time
as Murray
2000
5.9
Eisenstein
as The voice of Stalin
2000
5.5
A Question of Faith
as Frederick
2000
5.7
The Criminal
as Det. Insp. Walker
1999
4.8
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
1999
6.4
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
as Susan's Father
1999
5.5
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
1999
6.3
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
1999
0.0
True Crime
as Warden Luther Plunkitt
1999
6.5
The Titanic Chronicles
as (voice)
1999
7.0
🎬
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
as Host
1998
0.0
Titanic
as Captain Smith
1997
7.9
The Mill on the Floss
as Edward Tulliver
1997
6.1
The Wind in the Willows
as The Engine Driver
1996
5.7
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David Hawthorne
1996
6.8
First Knight
as Knight (uncredited)
1995
6.1
The Gambling Man
as Frank nickle
1995
5.5
Madagascar Skin
as Flint
1995
4.9
Speaking In Tongues
as Joe
1994
0.0
🎬
Once Upon A Time In The North
as Len Tollit
1994
5.0
Dirtysomething
as Larry
1994
5.0
Skallagrigg
as John
1994
1.0
🎬
Olly's Prison
as Mike
1993
9.0
The Art of Tripping
1993
0.0
Lipstick on Your Collar
as Uncle Fred
1993
6.9
Shepherd on the Rock
as Tam Ferrier
1993
5.5
A Question of Identity
as Erwin van Haarlem
1992
0.0
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Bottom (voice)
1992
6.3
Between the Lines
as Chief Constable Harmsworth
1992
5.2
HBO First Look
as Self
1992
4.9
Double X: The Name of the Game
as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
1992
5.0
The Law Lord
as Martin Allport
1992
0.0
Shoot the Revolution
as Octavian Barbu
1990
0.0
From Moscow to Pietushki
as Readings (voice)
1990
7.9
Mountains of the Moon
as Dr. Livingstone
1990
6.5
Shirley Valentine
as Joe Bradshaw
1989
6.2
Drowning by Numbers
as Madgett
1988
7.0
Bellman and True
as Hiller
1987
6.2
Boy Soldier
as Officer
1987
0.0
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Messenger
1986
0.0
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
as John Lennon
1985
0.0
No Surrender
as Bernard
1985
6.5
Restless Natives
as Will's father
1985
6.7
The Burston Rebellion
as Tom Higdon
1985
0.0
Screen Two
as John
1985
6.8
Squaring the Circle
as Lech Walesa
1984
5.0
The Bounty
as William Cole
1984
6.7
🎬
Samson and Delilah
as Willie
1984
0.0
The Chain
as Nick
1984
6.8
Natural World
1983
7.2
Runners
as Trevor Field
1983
4.8
The Tragedy of Richard III
as First Murderer
1983
6.0
Henry VI Part 3
as Duke of York
1983
7.0
Henry VI Part 2
as Duke of York
1983
7.0
Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
1983
7.5
Gandhi
as Sergeant Putnam
1982
7.6
Boys from the Blackstuff
as Yosser Hughes
1982
7.7
A Turn for the Worse
as Simon Simpson
1981
0.0
🎬
Say No to Strangers
as Teresa's Dad
1981
7.0
🎬
Fox
as Vin Fox
1980
1.0
Fox
as Vin Fox
1980
5.7
The Black Stuff
as Yosser Hughes
1980
7.4
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as Mick
1978
0.0
She Fell Among Thieves
as Carson
1978
7.0
The Spongers
as Sullivan
1978
0.0
Pit Strike
as Tom
1977
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Carson
1977
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Broadbent
1977
7.0
Professional Foul
as Broadbent
1977
6.0
Daft Mam Blues
as Billy
1977
0.0
Our Flesh and Blood
as Bernard Blincoe
1977
0.0
It Could Happen to You
as Syph
1976
1.0
Housewives' Choice
as Eric
1976
0.0
I, Claudius
as Gratus
1976
7.8
Trial by Combat
as Blind Freddie
1976
7.7
The Peddler
as Graham
1976
0.0
Village Hall
as Policeman
1974
0.0
Hard Labour
as Edward Thornley
1973
6.5
Play for Today
as Graham
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Edward
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Eric
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Bernard Blincoe
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Mick
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Sullivan
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Simon Simpson
1970
6.3
Horizon
as Narrator
1964
7.4
🎬
The Crumblegiant
as Narrator
N/A
0.0