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:
- 112
- 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 | Golden Years | Arthur | 2016-04-29 |
| Movie | Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary | Narrator | 2016-02-01 |
| Series | Wolf Hall | Duke of Norfolk | 2015-01-21 |
| Movie | North v South | John Claridge | 2015-10-16 |
| Series | Unforgotten | Father Robert Greaves | 2015-10-08 |
| Series | From There to Here | Samuel | 2014-05-22 |
| Series | Hope and Wire | Len Russell | 2014-07-03 |
| Movie | Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron | Captain EJ Smith | 2012-04-08 |
| Movie | Titanic: Southampton Remembers | 2012-07-13 | |
| Movie | Outpost 11 | Cranleigh | 2012-09-01 |
| Movie | Reflections on Titanic | Self | 2012-09-10 |
| Movie | ParaNorman | Judge Hopkins (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Franklyn | Esser | 2008-10-16 |
| Series | Sunshine | George Crosby | 2008-10-07 |
| Movie | Valkyrie | General - Desert Sequence | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | The Heart of the Earth | Sr. Crown | 2007-03-17 |
| Series | Five Days | Gerard Hopkirk | 2007-01-23 |
| 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 | On the Set of 'Gothika' | Self | 2004-03-23 |
| Movie | The Making of the Return of the King | Self | 2004-04-01 |
| 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 | Wimbledon | Edward Colt | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | The Boys & Girl from County Clare | John Joe | 2003-09-12 |
| Series | One Life | Unknown | 2003-09-24 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Théoden | 2003-12-17 |
| Movie | Gothika | Phil Parsons | 2003-11-21 |
| Movie | The Scorpion King | Philos | 2002-04-18 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Théoden | 2002-12-18 |
| Movie | A Question of Faith | Frederick | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Eisenstein | The voice of Stalin | 2000-09-08 |
| Movie | Going Off Big Time | Murray | 2000-09-21 |
| Series | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 1999-04-12 |
| Movie | True Crime | Warden Luther Plunkitt | 1999-03-19 |
| Movie | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 1999-04-12 |
| Movie | The Criminal | Det. Insp. Walker | 1999-10-01 |
| Movie | The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Susan's Father | 1999-04-29 |
| Movie | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus | 1999-05-20 |
| Movie | The Mill on the Floss | Edward Tulliver | 1997-10-12 |
| Movie | Titanic | Captain Smith | 1997-11-18 |
| Movie | The Wind in the Willows | The Engine Driver | 1996-10-16 |
| Movie | The Ghost and the Darkness | Dr. David Hawthorne | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Madagascar Skin | Flint | 1995-01-26 |
| Movie | First Knight | Knight (uncredited) | 1995-07-07 |
| Series | The Gambling Man | Frank nickle | 1995-02-26 |
| Movie | Skallagrigg | John | 1994-03-09 |
| Movie | Dirtysomething | Larry | 1994-04-06 |
| Movie | Speaking In Tongues | Joe | 1994-07-27 |
| Series | Once Upon A Time In The North | Len Tollit | 1994-05-03 |
| Movie | Shepherd on the Rock | Tam Ferrier | 1993-01-01 |
| Series | Lipstick on Your Collar | Uncle Fred | 1993-02-21 |
| Movie | The Art of Tripping | 1993-02-23 | |
| Movie | Olly's Prison | Mike | 1993-05-01 |
| Movie | The Law Lord | Martin Allport | 1992-03-22 |
| Movie | Double X: The Name of the Game | Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith | 1992-06-05 |
| Movie | A Question of Identity | Erwin van Haarlem | 1992-11-13 |
| Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
| 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 | Squaring the Circle | Lech Walesa | 1984-05-23 |
| Movie | The Bounty | William Cole | 1984-05-04 |
| 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 |