Bernard Hill

Acting · Born 1944-12-17 in 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…

Filmography

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Théoden
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Théoden
• ParaNorman as Judge Hopkins (voice)
• Gandhi as Sergeant Putnam
• Valkyrie as General - Desert Sequence
• Titanic as Captain Smith
• The Boys & Girl from County Clare as John Joe
• The Ghost and the Darkness as Dr. David Hawthorne
• Joy Division as Dennis
• The Heart of the Earth as Sr. Crown

TV

• I, Claudius as Gratus
• Boys from the Blackstuff as Yosser Hughes
• Five Days as Gerard Hopkirk
• Sunshine as George Crosby
• Fox as Vin Fox
• The Grid
• Natural World
• Surviving Disaster as Himself - Narrator
• Bombay Railway as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief as Self