Bernard Hill

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-12-17 (80 years old)

Deathday

2024-05-05

Place of Birth

Blackley, Manchester, England, UK

Bernard Hill

Biography

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 billi...

Acting

1996

The Ghost and the Darkness

as Dr. David Hawthorne

2006

Joy Division

as Dennis

2007

1984

The Bounty

as William Cole

2003

Gothika

as Phil Parsons

1977

2006

Ocean Odyssey

as Narrator (voice)

2004

Wimbledon

as Edward Colt

2008

Franklyn

as Esser

2000

1999

Great Expectations

as Abel Magwitch

2002

1990

Mountains of the Moon

as Dr. Livingstone

1988

2010

The Kid

as Uncle David

1985

Restless Natives

as Will's father

1999

1996

The Wind in the Willows

as The Engine Driver

1990

Shoot the Revolution

as Octavian Barbu

1989

Shirley Valentine

as Joe Bradshaw

-

The Crumblegiant

as Narrator

2007

Exodus

as Pharoah Mann

2012

ParaNorman

as Judge Hopkins (voice)

1976

Trial by Combat

as Blind Freddie

2007

Save Angel Hope

as Oscar Kurz

1985

No Surrender

as Bernard

1999

The Criminal

as Det. Insp. Walker

2024

The Moor

as Thornley

1987

1984

The Chain

as Nick

1995

2010

Canoe Man

as John Darwin

2024

Forever Young

as Oscar Smith

1983

1983

Henry VI Part 3

as Duke of York

1983

Henry VI Part 1

as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans

1983

Henry VI Part 2

as Duke of York

1993

Shepherd on the Rock

as Tam Ferrier

1978

The Spongers

as Sullivan

2005

A Very Social Secretary

as David Blunkett

2012

Outpost 11

as Cranleigh

1999

True Crime

as Warden Luther Plunkitt

2005

The Last Tommy

as Narrator

2006

JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1981

Say No to Strangers

as Teresa's Dad

1980

The Black Stuff

as Yosser Hughes

1977

Professional Foul

as Broadbent

1994

1990

From Moscow to Pietushki

as Readings (voice)

1992

Double X: The Name of the Game

as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith

2015

North v South

as John Claridge

2008

Bombay Railway

as Narrator

1982

Gandhi

as Sergeant Putnam

1993

1977

1995

First Knight

as Knight (uncredited)

1984

Squaring the Circle

as Lech Walesa

1992

A Question of Identity

as Erwin van Haarlem

2016

Golden Years

as Arthur

1992

The Law Lord

as Martin Allport

1983

Runners

as Trevor Field

1980

Fox

as Vin Fox

2008

Valkyrie

as General - Desert Sequence

1973

Hard Labour

as Edward Thornley

1997

The Mill on the Floss

as Edward Tulliver

2000

Eisenstein

as The voice of Stalin

1987

Boy Soldier

as Officer

2000

2006

No Go: The Free Derry Story

as Narrator (voice)

2008

Exodus

as Narrator (voice)

1994

1986

1977

Our Flesh and Blood

as Bernard Blincoe

1981

A Turn for the Worse

as Simon Simpson

1985

2016

Inside CERN

as Narrator

1976

The Peddler

as Graham

1997

Titanic

as Captain Smith

2005

$200,000,001: A Ship's Odyssey (The Titanic Crew Video)

as Self / Edward Smith (archive footage)

2005

Titanic: Behind The Scenes

as Self / Edward Smith (archive footage)

Production

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