Bernard Hill
Acting
🎂 1944-12-17
Bernard Hill 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.
Cast credits(150)
Narrator
1964
Self
1992
Edward
1970
Graham
1970
Eric
1970
Bernard Blincoe
1970
Sullivan
1970
Mick
1970
Simon Simpson
1970
Father Robert Greaves
2015
John
1985
1983
First Murderer/Sir William Brandon (uncredited)/Sheriff of Wiltshire (uncredited)
1978
Master Gunner/Duke of York
1978
Duke of York
1978
Chief Constable Harmsworth
1992
Captain Smith
1997
Duke of Norfolk
2015
Gratus
1976
Théoden
2003
Carson
1977
Broadbent
1977
Bottom (voice)
1992
Théoden
2002
2003
Tom Carson
2022
Phil Parsons
2003
Self
2004
Himself - Narrator
2008
Samuel
2014
Gerard Hopkirk
2007
General - Desert Sequence
2008
Narrator - (Voice)
2015
Abel Magwitch
1999
2004
Philos
2002
Len Tollit
1994
Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
Judge Hopkins (voice)
2012
Sergeant Putnam
1982
Self - Narrator (voice)
2007
Len Russell
2014
Policeman
1974
Dr. David Hawthorne
1996
Knight (uncredited)
1995
Thornley
2024
2008
George Crosby
2008
Warden Luther Plunkitt
1999
William Cole
1984
Edward Colt
2004
Yosser Hughes
1982
Egeus
1999
Uncle Fred
1993
Frank nickle
1995
Himself - Narrator
2006
2006
Vin Fox
1980
Cranleigh
2012
Joe Bradshaw
1989
Dennis
2006
The Engine Driver
1996
Madgett
1988
Esser
2008
King William III
2005
Oscar Smith
2024
Dr. Livingstone
1990
Will's father
1985
Self
2004
Arthur
2016
Hiller
1987
Nick
1984
Trevor Field
1983
Edward Tulliver
1997
Uncle David
2010
Susan's Father
1999
The voice of Stalin
2000
Pharoah Mann
2007
Abel Magwitch
1999
Self
2012
First Murderer
1983
Captain EJ Smith
2012
Mike
1993
John Joe
2003
Sr. Crown
2007
Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
1983
Det. Insp. Walker
1999
John Claridge
2015
David Blunkett
2005
2003
Carson
1978
Narrator
2004
Yosser Hughes
1980
Graham
1976
Sullivan
1978
Blind Freddie
1976
Self / Edward Smith (archive footage)
2005
John
1994
Octavian Barbu
1990
Self / Edward Smith (archive footage)
2005
Lech Walesa
1984
Oscar Kurz
2007
Bernard
1985
Bernard Blincoe
1977
Tom Higdon
1985
Duke of York
1983
Tam Ferrier
1993
Richard
2017
1993
Syph
1976
Flint
1995
Narrator
2016
John Darwin
2010
Messenger
1986
Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
1992
(voice)
1999
Edward Thornley
1973
Vin Fox
1980
Host
1998
Murray
2000
Duke of York
1983
Narrator (voice)
2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
Teresa's Dad
1981
Narrator
2008
Frederick
2000
Martin Allport
1992
Broadbent
1977
Joe
1994
Officer
1987
Simon Simpson
1981
2013
Larry
1994
Readings (voice)
1990
Erwin van Haarlem
1992
Eric
1976
Billy
1977
Narrator (voice)
2008
Narrator
Tom
1977
Narrator
2005
Narrator (voice)
2006
Mick
1978
Peter
2018
2012
Narrator (voice)
2006
2005
Narrator
2008
Narrator
2016
2012
