Bernard Hill
Born in 1944, Bernard Hill is a British actor of film, stage and television. 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.
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- Born:
- Dec 17, 1944 In Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 109
- First Appeared:
- In the series Play for Today 1970-10-15
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Moor 2024-06-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Moor | Thornley | 2024-06-14 |
| Series | The Responder | Tom Carson | 2022-01-24 |
| Movie | Segunda oportunidad | Peter | 2018-11-03 |
| Movie | Interlude: City of a Dead Woman | Richard | 2017-04-06 |
| Movie | Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary | Narrator | 2016-02-01 |
| Movie | Golden Years | Arthur | 2016-04-29 |
| Series | Unforgotten | Father Robert Greaves | 2015-10-08 |
| Series | Wolf Hall | Duke of Norfolk | 2015-01-21 |
| Movie | North v South | John Claridge | 2015-10-16 |
| Series | From There to Here | Samuel | 2014-05-22 |
| Series | Hope and Wire | Len Russell | 2014-07-03 |
| Movie | ParaNorman | Judge Hopkins (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
| Movie | Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron | Captain EJ Smith | 2012-04-08 |
| Movie | Outpost 11 | Cranleigh | 2012-09-01 |
| Movie | Reflections on Titanic | Self | 2012-09-10 |
| Movie | Canoe Man | John Darwin | 2010-03-30 |
| Movie | The Kid | Uncle David | 2010-04-22 |
| Series | Fairy Tales | Unknown | 2008-01-10 |
| Movie | Exodus | Narrator (voice) | 2008-01-09 |
| Series | Wild China | Himself - Narrator | 2008-05-11 |
| Series | Sunshine | George Crosby | 2008-10-07 |
| Movie | Valkyrie | General - Desert Sequence | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Franklyn | Esser | 2008-10-16 |
| Series | Five Days | Gerard Hopkirk | 2007-01-23 |
| Movie | The Heart of the Earth | Sr. Crown | 2007-03-17 |
| Movie | Exodus | Pharoah Mann | 2007-09-04 |
| Movie | Save Angel Hope | Oscar Kurz | 2007-10-20 |
| Series | Surviving Disaster | Himself - Narrator | 2006-01-10 |
| Movie | Ocean Odyssey | Narrator (voice) | 2006-05-24 |
| Movie | Joy Division | Dennis | 2006-11-17 |
| Movie | No Go: The Free Derry Story | Narrator (voice) | 2006-09-06 |
| Movie | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | King William III | 2005-06-03 |
| Movie | A Very Social Secretary | David Blunkett | 2005-10-10 |
| Movie | The Making of the Return of the King | Self | 2004-04-01 |
| Movie | Wimbledon | Edward Colt | 2004-09-13 |
| Series | The Grid | 2004-07-19 | |
| Movie | Beatles Biggest Secrets | Narrator | 2004-12-02 |
| Series | Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief | Self | 2004-10-11 |
| Movie | The Boys & Girl from County Clare | John Joe | 2003-09-12 |
| Series | One Life | Unknown | 2003-09-24 |
| Movie | Gothika | Phil Parsons | 2003-11-21 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Théoden | 2003-12-17 |
| Movie | The Scorpion King | Philos | 2002-04-18 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Théoden | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | Going Off Big Time | Murray | 2000-09-21 |
| Movie | A Question of Faith | Frederick | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Eisenstein | The voice of Stalin | 2000-09-08 |
| Movie | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 1999-04-12 |
| Movie | True Crime | Warden Luther Plunkitt | 1999-03-19 |
| Movie | The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Susan's Father | 1999-04-29 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus | 1999-05-20 |
| Movie | The Criminal | Det. Insp. Walker | 1999-10-01 |
| Movie | The Mill on the Floss | Edward Tulliver | 1997-10-12 |
| Movie | Titanic | Captain Smith | 1997-11-18 |
| Movie | The Ghost and the Darkness | Dr. David Hawthorne | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Wind in the Willows | The Engine Driver | 1996-10-16 |
| Movie | First Knight | Knight (uncredited) | 1995-07-07 |
| Movie | Madagascar Skin | Flint | 1995-01-26 |
| Series | The Gambling Man | Frank nickle | 1995-02-26 |
| Movie | Dirtysomething | Larry | 1994-04-06 |
| Movie | Skallagrigg | John | 1994-03-09 |
| Series | Once Upon A Time In The North | Len Tollit | 1994-05-03 |
| Movie | Speaking In Tongues | Joe | 1994-07-27 |
| Series | Lipstick on Your Collar | Uncle Fred | 1993-02-21 |
| Movie | Shepherd on the Rock | Tam Ferrier | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | The Art of Tripping | 1993-02-23 | |
| Movie | Olly's Prison | Mike | 1993-05-01 |
| Movie | Double X: The Name of the Game | Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith | 1992-06-05 |
| Movie | The Law Lord | Martin Allport | 1992-03-22 |
| Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
| Movie | A Question of Identity | Erwin van Haarlem | 1992-11-13 |
| Movie | Mountains of the Moon | Dr. Livingstone | 1990-02-16 |
| Movie | Shirley Valentine | Joe Bradshaw | 1989-08-30 |
| Movie | Drowning by Numbers | Madgett | 1988-09-10 |
| Movie | Boy Soldier | Officer | 1987-01-30 |
| Movie | Bellman and True | Hiller | 1987-11-12 |
| Movie | Theban Plays: Antigone | Messenger | 1986-09-19 |
| Movie | The Burston Rebellion | Tom Higdon | 1985-02-24 |
| Series | Screen Two | John | 1985-01-06 |
| Movie | Restless Natives | Will's father | 1985-06-01 |
| Movie | No Surrender | Bernard | 1985-09-11 |
| Movie | The Chain | Nick | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | The Bounty | William Cole | 1984-05-04 |
| Movie | Squaring the Circle | Lech Walesa | 1984-05-23 |
| Movie | Henry VI Part 1 | Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans | 1983-01-02 |
| Movie | Henry VI Part 3 | Duke of York | 1983-01-16 |
| Movie | Henry VI Part 2 | Duke of York | 1983-01-09 |
| Movie | The Tragedy of Richard III | First Murderer | 1983-01-23 |
| Series | Natural World | Unknown | 1983-10-30 |
| Movie | Runners | Trevor Field | 1983-08-18 |
| Series | Boys from the Blackstuff | Yosser Hughes | 1982-10-10 |
| Movie | Gandhi | Sergeant Putnam | 1982-12-01 |
| Movie | A Turn for the Worse | Simon Simpson | 1981-04-28 |
| Movie | Say No to Strangers | Teresa's Dad | 1981-01-01 |
| Movie | The Black Stuff | Yosser Hughes | 1980-01-02 |
| Series | Fox | Vin Fox | 1980-03-10 |
| Movie | Fox | Vin Fox | 1980-03-10 |
| Movie | The Spongers | Sullivan | 1978-01-24 |
| Movie | She Fell Among Thieves | Carson | 1978-03-01 |
| Series | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly | Mick | 1978-12-05 |
| Movie | Daft Mam Blues | Billy | 1977-05-17 |
| Movie | Professional Foul | Broadbent | 1977-09-21 |
| Movie | The Peddler | Graham | 1976-03-23 |
| Movie | Trial by Combat | Blind Freddie | 1976-04-01 |
| Series | I, Claudius | Gratus | 1976-09-20 |
| Movie | It Could Happen to You | Syph | 1976-11-11 |
| Movie | Hard Labour | Edward Thornley | 1973-03-12 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |