Bernard Hill

Acting · 1.9 popularity

Age

Movies

112

Born: December 17, 1944 – May 5, 2024
From: Blackley, Manchester, England, UK

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.

Works

112 films

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

20038.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

20028.4

Titanic

19977.9

The Scorpion King

20025.6

First Knight

19956.1

Valkyrie

20087.0

ParaNorman

20127.0

The Ghost and the Darkness

19966.8

True Crime

19996.5

A Midsummer Night's Dream

19996.4

Gandhi

19827.6

Gothika

20036.2

The Bounty

19846.8

Joy Division

20065.2

Wimbledon

20046.2

Franklyn

20086.0

Ocean Odyssey

20067.4

The Wind in the Willows

19965.8

Drowning by Numbers

19887.0

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

20068.8

The Moor

20245.7

Fox

19801.0

Exodus

2008

Segunda oportunidad

20185.5

Shirley Valentine

19896.3

Mountains of the Moon

19906.5

Reflections on Titanic

20127.2

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

19995.6

Housewives' Choice

1976

North v South

20155.1

Heatwave

20056.0

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

20068.9

Great Expectations

19996.4

Forever Young

20245.5

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

20056.2

Save Angel Hope

20074.9

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

20036.0

The Tragedy of Richard III

19838.0

The Law Lord

19929.0

Dirtysomething

19945.7

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

1978

Speaking In Tongues

1994

On the Set of 'Gothika'

2004

The Black Stuff

19807.4

The Titanic Chronicles

19998.5

The Kid

20106.4

Theban Plays: Antigone

19869.0

Bellman and True

19876.5

Double X: The Name of the Game

19925.4

A Very Social Secretary

20056.3

Golden Years

20166.3

Titanic: Southampton Remembers

2012

The Mill on the Floss

19976.4

Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron

20127.4

The Peddler

1976

Outpost 11

20124.2

Squaring the Circle

19845.0

Restless Natives

19856.8

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

20008.0

Henry VI Part 1

19837.7

Daft Mam Blues

1977

No Surrender

19856.7

Shepherd on the Rock

19937.0

She Fell Among Thieves

19785.3

JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed

20067.2

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

20166.8

Titanic: Case Closed

20125.0

Trial by Combat

19767.8

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1992

Samson and Delilah

1984

From Moscow to Pietushki

19908.0

A Question of Faith

20006.5

Runners

19835.4

The Heart of the Earth

20074.9

Canoe Man

20104.0

Henry VI Part 2

19837.5

The Chain

19847.0

Exodus

20075.8

The Burston Rebellion

19858.0

Our Flesh and Blood

1977

The Criminal

19995.5

Madagascar Skin

19955.6

Hard Labour

19736.7

Olly's Prison

19939.0

Professional Foul

19777.5

The Art of Tripping

19939.0

Say No to Strangers

19817.0

Titus: The Gorilla King

20088.0

Skallagrigg

19944.0

Going Off Big Time

20006.4

Shoot the Revolution

1990

Eisenstein

20006.2

Beatles Biggest Secrets

2004

Henry VI Part 3

19838.0

The Spongers

197810.0

Pit Strike

1977

Boy Soldier

19877.5

Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster

2006

No Go: The Free Derry Story

2006

The Crumblegiant

2007

It Could Happen to You

19764.0

John Lennon: A Journey in the Life

1985

Titanic: Secrets Revealed

19989.0

The Sorrows

2013

Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

2005

Interlude: City of a Dead Woman

20173.0

Inside CERN

20168.0

A Turn for the Worse

1981

Tim Haines Deep Ocean

20069.0

A Question of Identity

19927.0

Bombay Railway

2008

The Last Tommy

200510.0