Bernard Hill
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.
146 acting credits
Acting · 146
Horizon
1964
Play for Today
1970
Titanic
1997
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
Natural World
1983
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
Screen Two
1985
Unforgotten
2015
Remembers…
2022
Between the Lines
1992
Wolf Hall
2015
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
HBO First Look
1992
I, Claudius
1976
ScreenPlay
1986
Five Days
2007
Valkyrie
2008
The Responder
2022
The Scorpion King
2002
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
ParaNorman
2012
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Gothika
2003
First Knight
1995
Gandhi
1982
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982
Fox
1980
Fairy Tales
2008
The Bounty
1984
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
True Crime
1999
Wimbledon
2004
Lipstick on Your Collar
1993
Surviving Disaster
2006
The Grid
2004
Sunshine
2008
From There to Here
2014
Wild China
2008
Once Upon A Time In The North
1994
Franklyn
2008
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
One Life
2003
Joy Division
2006
Shirley Valentine
1989
Drowning by Numbers
1988
Village Hall
1974
Hope and Wire
2014
Great Expectations
1999
Mountains of the Moon
1990
The Kid
2010
The Moor
2024
Trial by Combat
1976
The Gambling Man
1995
The Wind in the Willows
1996
The Chain
1984
Reflections on Titanic
2012
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
2004
The Mill on the Floss
1997
India's Frontier Railways
2015
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003
Runners
1983
Golden Years
2016
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986
Outpost 11
2012
Great Expectations
1999
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000
Indian Hill Railways
2010
Fox
1980
Bombay Railway
2007
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
No Surrender
1985
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
Restless Natives
1985
Boy Soldier
1987
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
2012
The Black Stuff
1980
Professional Foul
1977
Squaring the Circle
1984
Shoot the Revolution
1990
The Heart of the Earth
2007
Forever Young
2024
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
1985
Henry VI Part 1
1983
Henry VI Part 3
1983
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
2016
North v South
2015
From Moscow to Pietushki
1990
The Spongers
1978
Bellman and True
1987
The Titanic Chronicles
1999
The Criminal
1999
Madagascar Skin
1995
Ocean Odyssey
2006
Going Off Big Time
2000
Double X: The Name of the Game
1992
Henry VI Part 2
1983
Olly's Prison
1993
A Very Social Secretary
2005
A Turn for the Worse
1981
The Burston Rebellion
1985
Exodus
2007
She Fell Among Thieves
1978
Hard Labour
1973
The Sorrows
2013
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
2017
Bombay Railway
2008
Canoe Man
2010
Samson and Delilah
1984
Say No to Strangers
1981
Save Angel Hope
2007
Skallagrigg
1994
Eisenstein
2000
Pit Strike
1977
The Crumblegiant
2007
A Question of Faith
2000
The Art of Tripping
1993
The Law Lord
1992
Dirtysomething
1994
Segunda oportunidad
2018
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978
Daft Mam Blues
1977
A Question of Identity
1992
It Could Happen to You
1976
Exodus
2008
On the Set of 'Gothika'
2004
Speaking In Tongues
1994
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
2006
Inside CERN
2016
Shepherd on the Rock
1993
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
2012
Heatwave
2005
Titus: The Gorilla King
2008
Our Flesh and Blood
1977
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
1998
The Peddler
1976
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
2005
No Go: The Free Derry Story
2006
Titanic: Case Closed
2012
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
2006
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992
Housewives' Choice
1976
The Last Tommy
2005
Tim Haines Deep Ocean
2006