Bernard Hill
Born December 17, 1944 (Age: 81)
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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 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.
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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Filmography
Segunda oportunidad
2018
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as Peter
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Age: 73
Inside CERN
2016
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as Narrator
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Age: 71
ParaNorman
2012
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as Judge Hopkins (voice)
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Age: 67
Titanic: Southampton Remembers
2012
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as
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Age: 67
Titanic: Case Closed
2012
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as
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Age: 67
Valkyrie
2008
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as General - Desert Sequence
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Age: 64
No Go: The Free Derry Story
2006
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 61
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
2006
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 61
No Image
The Last Tommy
2005
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
A Very Social Secretary
2005
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as David Blunkett
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Age: 60
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
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as King William III
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Age: 60
No Image
Heatwave
2005
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 60
No Image
Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
2005
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as
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Age: 60
The Appendices, Part Five: The War of the Ring
2004
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as Self
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Age: 59
The Appendices, Part Six: The Passing of an Age
2004
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as Self
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Age: 59
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
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as Narrator
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Age: 59
Wimbledon
2004
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as Edward Colt
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Age: 59
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 59
On the Set of 'Gothika'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 59
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
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as Théoden
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Age: 59
Gothika
2003
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as Phil Parsons
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Age: 58
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003
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as John Joe
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Age: 58
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
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as Théoden
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Age: 58
The Scorpion King
2002
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as Philos
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Age: 57
Going Off Big Time
2000
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as Murray
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Age: 55
Eisenstein
2000
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as The voice of Stalin
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Age: 55
A Question of Faith
2000
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as Frederick
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Age: 55
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
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as Egeus
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Age: 54
True Crime
1999
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as Warden Luther Plunkitt
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Age: 54
The Titanic Chronicles
1999
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as (voice)
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Age: 54
No Image
Titanic: Secrets Revealed
1998
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as Host
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Age: 53
Titanic
1997
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as Captain Smith
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Age: 53
The Mill on the Floss
1997
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as Edward Tulliver
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Age: 52
The Wind in the Willows
1996
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as The Engine Driver
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Age: 51
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
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as Dr. David Hawthorne
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Age: 51
First Knight
1995
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as Knight (uncredited)
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Age: 50
Skallagrigg
1994
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as John
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Age: 49
No Image
Olly's Prison
1993
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as Mike
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Age: 48
The Art of Tripping
1993
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as
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Age: 48
Shepherd on the Rock
1993
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as Tam Ferrier
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Age: 48
A Question of Identity
1992
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as Erwin van Haarlem
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Age: 47
Double X: The Name of the Game
1992
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as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith
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Age: 47
The Law Lord
1992
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as Martin Allport
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Age: 47
Shoot the Revolution
1990
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as Octavian Barbu
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Age: 45
From Moscow to Pietushki
1990
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as Readings (voice)
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Age: 45
Mountains of the Moon
1990
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as Dr. Livingstone
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Age: 45
Shirley Valentine
1989
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as Joe Bradshaw
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Age: 44
Drowning by Numbers
1988
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as Henry Madgett
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Age: 43
Bellman and True
1987
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as Hiller
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Age: 42
Boy Soldier
1987
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as Officer
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Age: 42
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
1985
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as John Lennon
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Age: 40
No Surrender
1985
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as Bernard
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Age: 40
Restless Natives
1985
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as Will's father
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Age: 40
The Burston Rebellion
1985
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as Tom Higdon
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Age: 40
The Bounty
1984
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as William Cole
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Age: 39
No Image
Samson and Delilah
1984
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as Willie
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Age: 39
Gandhi
1982
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as Sergeant Putnam
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Age: 37
A Turn for the Worse
1981
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as Simon Simpson
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Age: 36
No Image
Say No to Strangers
1981
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as Teresa's Dad
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Age: 36
No Image
Fox
1980
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as Vin Fox
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Age: 35
The Black Stuff
1980
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as Yosser Hughes
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Age: 35
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978
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as Mick
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Age: 33
She Fell Among Thieves
1978
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as Carson
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Age: 33
The Spongers
1978
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as Sullivan
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Age: 33
Pit Strike
1977
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as Tom
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Age: 32
Daft Mam Blues
1977
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as Billy
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Age: 32
Our Flesh and Blood
1977
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as Bernard Blincoe
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Age: 32
The Peddler
1976
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as Graham
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Age: 31
Hard Labour
1973
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as Edward Thornley
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Age: 28