Bernard Hill
1944-2024
Known for Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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.
Movie Credits
Golden Years (2016)
Exodus (2007)
Ocean Odyssey (2006)
Madagascar Skin (1995)
Bellman and True (1987)
Forever Young (2024)
North v South (2015)
The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003)
No Surrender (1985)
Outpost 11 (2013)
Franklyn (2008)
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012)
Save Angel Hope (2007)
The Heart of the Earth (2007)
Joy Division (2006)
The Mill on the Floss (1997)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
The Bounty (1984)
The Sorrows (2013)
Wimbledon (2004)
Gothika (2003)
The Scorpion King (2002)
A Question of Faith (2000)
Henry VI Part 3 (1983)
The Moor (2023)
The Kid (2010)
True Crime (1999)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Restless Natives (1985)
Going Off Big Time (2000)
Shirley Valentine (1989)
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary (2016)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Titanic (1997)
The Wind in the Willows (1996)
ParaNorman (2012)
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Valkyrie (2008)
Great Expectations (1999)
First Knight (1995)
