Birthday
1944/12/17
Day of death
2024/05/05 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Also know as
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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...Read more
(2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Théoden
(2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Théoden
(2003) The Boys & Girl from County Clare
as John Joe
(1996) The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David Hawthorne
(2006) Joy Division
as Dennis
(2007) The Heart of the Earth
as Sr. Crown
(1984) The Bounty
as William Cole
(2003) Gothika
as Phil Parsons
(1977) Daft Mam Blues
as Billy
(2006) Ocean Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)
(2004) Wimbledon
as Edward Colt
(2008) Franklyn
as Esser
(2000) Going Off Big Time
as Murray
(1999) Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
(2002) The Scorpion King
as Philos
(1990) Mountains of the Moon
as Dr. Livingstone
(1988) Drowning by Numbers
as Madgett
(2010) The Kid
as Uncle David
(1985) Restless Natives
as Will's father
(1999) The Loss of Sexual Innocence
as Susan's Father
(2008) Titus: The Gorilla King
as Narrator
(1996) The Wind in the Willows
as The Engine Driver
(1990) Shoot the Revolution
as Octavian Barbu
(2005) Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
as ---
(1989) Shirley Valentine
as Joe Bradshaw
The Crumblegiant
as Narrator
(2007) Exodus
as Pharoah Mann
(2018) Segunda oportunidad
as Peter
(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) Bellman and True
as Hiller
(1984) The Chain
as Nick
(1995) Madagascar Skin
as Flint
(2010) Canoe Man
as John Darwin
(2024) Forever Young
as Oscar Smith
(2016) Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
as Narrator
(1983) Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
(1983) Henry VI Part 2
as Duke of York
(1983) Henry VI Part 3
as Duke of York
(1983) The Tragedy of Richard III
as First Murderer
(1993) Shepherd on the Rock
as Tam Ferrier
(2012) Titanic: Case Closed
as ---
(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
(2012) Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
as Captain EJ Smith
(2006) JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1981) Say No to Strangers
as ---
(1980) The Black Stuff
as Yosser Hughes
(1977) Professional Foul
as Broadbent
(1994) Dirtysomething
as Larry
(1998) Titanic: Secrets Revealed
as Host
(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) Olly's Prison
as Mike
(1994) Speaking In Tongues
as Joe
(1977) Pit Strike
as Tom
(2013) The Sorrows
as ---
(1993) The Art of Tripping
as ---
(1995) First Knight
as Knight (uncredited)
(1984) Squaring the Circle
as Lech Walesa
(1992) A Question of Identity
as Erwin van Haarlem
(1999) A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
(2016) Golden Years
as Arthur
(1992) The Law Lord
as Martin Allport
(1983) Runners
as Trevor Field
(1980) Fox
as Vin Fox
(2017) Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
as Richard
(2008) Valkyrie
as General - Desert Sequence
(1973) Hard Labour
as Edward Thornley
(1997) The Mill on the Floss
as Edward Tulliver
(1976) It Could Happen to You
as Syph
(2000) Eisenstein
as The voice of Stalin
(1987) Boy Soldier
as Officer
(2000) A Question of Faith
as Frederick
(2006) No Go: The Free Derry Story
as Narrator (voice)
(2008) Exodus
as Narrator (voice)
(1994) Skallagrigg
as John
(1986) Theban Plays: Antigone
as Messenger
(2006) Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
as Narrator (voice)
(1977) Our Flesh and Blood
as Bernard Blincoe
(1978) She Fell Among Thieves
as Carson
(2004) Beatles Biggest Secrets
as Narrator
(1976) Housewives' Choice
as Eric
(1978) Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as Mick
(1981) A Turn for the Worse
as Simon Simpson
(2005) The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as King William III
(1985) The Burston Rebellion
as Tom Higdon
(2012) Reflections on Titanic
as Self
(2016) Inside CERN
as Narrator
(1976) The Peddler
as Graham
(1999) The Titanic Chronicles
as (voice)
(1997) Titanic
as Edward Smith
(1982) Boys from the Blackstuff
as Yosser Hughes
(2007) Five Days
as Gerard Hopkirk
(1976) I, Claudius
as Gratus
(2008) Sunshine
as George Crosby
(1980) Fox
as Vin Fox
(2004) The Grid
as ---
(2008) Fairy Tales
as ---
(2003) One Life
as ---
(1983) Natural World
as ---
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(2006) Surviving Disaster
as Himself - Narrator
(2007) Bombay Railway
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2004) Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as Self
(2008) Wild China
as Himself - Narrator
(2014) From There to Here
as Samuel
(2015) Unforgotten
as Father Robert Greaves
(1992) HBO First Look
as Self
(1974) Village Hall
as Policeman
(1994) Once Upon A Time In The North
as Len Tollit
(2010) Indian Hill Railways
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1985) Screen Two
as John
(1995) The Gambling Man
as Frank nickle
(2006) Surviving Disaster
as ---
(2015) India's Frontier Railways
as Narrator - (Voice)
(1992) Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Bottom (voice)
(1992) Between the Lines
as Chief Constable Harmsworth
(1970) Play for Today
as Graham
(1970) Play for Today
as Bernard Blincoe
(1970) Play for Today
as Edward
(1970) Play for Today
as Eric
(1970) Play for Today
as Sullivan
(1970) Play for Today
as Mick
(1970) Play for Today
as Simon Simpson
(2014) Hope and Wire
as Len Russell
(1977) BBC2 Play of the Week
as Carson
(2022) The Responder
as Tom Carson
(1993) Lipstick on Your Collar
as Uncle Fred
(1964) Horizon
as Narrator
(2015) Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk