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
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
Valkyrie
2008
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as General - Desert Sequence
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Age: 64
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
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as King William III
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Age: 60
Wimbledon
2004
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as Edward Colt
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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 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 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
A Question of Identity
1992
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as Erwin van Haarlem
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Age: 47
Shoot the Revolution
1990
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as Octavian Barbu
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Age: 45
Mountains of the Moon
1990
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as Dr. Livingstone
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Age: 45
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
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
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