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Bernard Hill
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
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…
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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 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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Movie In Memory Of
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2024
The Moor
Movie Thornley
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2024
Forever Young
Movie Oscar Smith
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2022
Remembers…
TV show
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2022
The Responder
TV show Tom Carson
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2018
Segunda oportunidad
Movie Peter
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2017
Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
Movie Richard
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2016
Inside CERN
Movie Narrator
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2016
Golden Years
Movie Arthur
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2016
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
Movie Narrator
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2015
North v South
Movie John Claridge
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2015
Unforgotten
TV show Father Robert Greaves
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2015
India's Frontier Railways
TV show Narrator - (Voice)
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2015
Wolf Hall
TV show Duke of Norfolk
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2014
Hope and Wire
TV show Len Russell
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2014
From There to Here
TV show Samuel
More credits
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2013
The Sorrows
Movie
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2012
Reflections on Titanic
Movie Self
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2012
Outpost 11
Movie Cranleigh
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2012
ParaNorman
Movie Judge Hopkins (voice)
- 2012
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2012
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
Movie Captain EJ Smith
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2012
Titanic: Case Closed
Movie
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2010
The Kid
Movie Uncle David
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2010
Canoe Man
Movie John Darwin
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2010
Indian Hill Railways
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2008
Valkyrie
Movie General - Desert Sequence
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2008
Franklyn
Movie Esser
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2008
Sunshine
TV show George Crosby
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2008
Wild China
TV show Himself - Narrator
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2008
Fairy Tales
TV show Grettongrat
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2008
Exodus
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2008
Bombay Railway
Movie Narrator
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2008
Titus: The Gorilla King
Movie Narrator
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2007
Save Angel Hope
Movie Oscar Kurz
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2007
Exodus
Movie Pharoah Mann
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2007
Bombay Railway
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2007
The Crumblegiant
Movie Narrator
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2007
The Heart of the Earth
Movie Sr. Crown
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2007
Five Days
TV show Gerard Hopkirk
