Bernard Hill
Acting
Born December 17, 1944 · 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 o…
Known For · 40 titles
Play for Today
Horizon
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Titanic
Natural World
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Screen Two
BBC2 Play of the Week
ScreenPlay
Unforgotten
HBO First Look
The Scorpion King
Remembers…
Wolf Hall
Between the Lines
I, Claudius
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Valkyrie
ParaNorman
Five Days
The Responder
One Life
Second City Firsts
First Knight
The Ghost and the Darkness
Gothika
Premiere
Fox
The Bounty
Gandhi
A Midsummer Night's Dream
True Crime
Fairy Tales
Wild China
Boys from the Blackstuff
Wimbledon
Joy Division
The Grid
Lipstick on Your Collar
Village Hall