Bernard Hill
Acting
Born 1944-12-17
Died 2024-05-05
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
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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.
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56 credits
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Horizon
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Titanic
Screen Two
Unforgotten
Fairy Tales
The Scorpion King
ScreenPlay
Between the Lines
HBO First Look
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
I, Claudius
Wolf Hall
BBC2 Play of the Week
First Knight
ParaNorman
True Crime
Wild China
Five Days
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Responder
Valkyrie
Second City Firsts
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Gandhi
Gothika
The Bounty
Premiere
Joy Division
Wimbledon
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Fox
Great Expectations
Boys from the Blackstuff
Sunshine
Lipstick on Your Collar
From There to Here
Village Hall
Franklyn
Ocean Odyssey
Shirley Valentine
The Wind in the Willows
Mountains of the Moon
Drowning by Numbers
Surviving Disaster
Segunda oportunidad
Childhood
Hope and Wire
Heatwave
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
The Gambling Man
Fox
Once Upon A Time In The North
Exodus
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