Bernard Hill
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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Boys from the Blackstuff
7.7
Five Days
5.8
I, Claudius
7.8
Sunshine
7.8
Fox
5.7
The Grid
6.467
Fairy Tales
0
One Life
0
Natural World
7.1
Surviving Disaster
6.7
Bombay Railway
1
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
8
Wild China
7.9
From There to Here
7.3
Unforgotten
7.561
HBO First Look
4.9
Village Hall
0
Once Upon A Time In The North
5
Indian Hill Railways
0
Screen Two
6.833
The Gambling Man
5.5
Surviving Disaster
6.7
India's Frontier Railways
0
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
6.333
Between the Lines
5.6
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Hope and Wire
0
BBC2 Play of the Week
7
The Responder
7.079
Lipstick on Your Collar
7.1
Horizon
7.516
Wolf Hall
7.544
Great Expectations
0
BBC2 Play of the Week
7
Movies
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8.4
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8.488
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
6
The Ghost and the Darkness
6.824
Joy Division
5.2
The Heart of the Earth
4.917
The Bounty
6.702
Gothika
6.113
Daft Mam Blues
0
Ocean Odyssey
7.4
Wimbledon
6.2
Franklyn
6.026
Going Off Big Time
5.6
Great Expectations
6.3
The Scorpion King
5.588
Mountains of the Moon
6.5
Drowning by Numbers
7.079
The Kid
6.7
Restless Natives
6.7
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
5.7
Titus: The Gorilla King
9
The Wind in the Willows
5.7
Shoot the Revolution
0
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
0
Shirley Valentine
6.3
The Crumblegiant
0
Exodus
5.8
Segunda oportunidad
5.5
ParaNorman
6.994
Trial by Combat
7.7
Save Angel Hope
4.4
No Surrender
6.5
The Criminal
4.8
The Moor
5.558
Bellman and True
6.5
The Chain
6.8
Madagascar Skin
5.5
Canoe Man
4
Forever Young
5.5
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
6.8
The Tragedy of Richard III
6
Henry VI Part 3
7
Henry VI Part 1
7.5
Henry VI Part 2
7
Shepherd on the Rock
5.5
Titanic: Case Closed
0
The Spongers
0
A Very Social Secretary
6.1
Outpost 11
4.125
True Crime
6.537
The Last Tommy
0
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
7.5
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
7.2
Say No to Strangers
7
The Black Stuff
7.4
Professional Foul
6
Dirtysomething
5
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
0
From Moscow to Pietushki
7.9
Double X: The Name of the Game
5
North v South
5.1
Bombay Railway
0
Gandhi
7.553
Olly's Prison
9
Speaking In Tongues
0
Pit Strike
0
The Sorrows
0
The Art of Tripping
0
First Knight
6.104
Squaring the Circle
5
A Question of Identity
0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.387
Golden Years
6.3
The Law Lord
0
Runners
4.75
Fox
1
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
3
Valkyrie
6.9
Hard Labour
6.5
The Mill on the Floss
6.115
It Could Happen to You
1
Eisenstein
5.5
Boy Soldier
0
A Question of Faith
5.7
No Go: The Free Derry Story
0
Exodus
0
Skallagrigg
1
Theban Plays: Antigone
0
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
0
Our Flesh and Blood
0
She Fell Among Thieves
7
Beatles Biggest Secrets
0
Housewives' Choice
0
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
0
A Turn for the Worse
0
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
6.3
The Burston Rebellion
0
Reflections on Titanic
7.3
Inside CERN
8
The Peddler
0
The Titanic Chronicles
7
Titanic
7.906
The Making of The Two Towers
8.8
The Making of the Return of the King
8.8
$200,000,001: A Ship's Odyssey (The Titanic Crew Video)
0
Titanic: Behind The Scenes
0
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
0