Bernard Hill
Known For
Acting
Born
1944-12-17 in Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Died
2024-05-05
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.
Most Known For
Titanic
as Captain Smith
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Théoden
Horizon
as Narrator
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Théoden
Play for Today
as Graham
Play for Today
as Bernard Blincoe
Play for Today
as Edward
Play for Today
as Eric
Play for Today
as Sullivan
Play for Today
as Mick
Play for Today
as Simon Simpson
Natural World
Unforgotten
as Father Robert Greaves
HBO First Look
as Self
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk
Screen Two
as John
Screen Two
as Tom Higdon
Screen Two
as Captain Larry
Between the Lines
as Chief Constable Harmsworth
I, Claudius
as Gratus