Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
12/17/1944
Place of Birth
Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Also Known As
برنارد هیل
Bernard Hill
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 o...
Known For
Titanic
as Captain Smith
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Théoden
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Théoden
ParaNorman
as Judge Hopkins (voice)
First Knight
as Knight (uncredited)
Joy Division
as Dennis
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
The Bounty
as William Cole
The Moor
as Thornley
Gandhi
as Sergeant Putnam
Wimbledon
as Edward Colt
Shirley Valentine
as Joe Bradshaw
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David Hawthorne
Franklyn
as Esser
Exodus
as Pharoah Mann
The Kid
as Uncle David
The Criminal
as Det. Insp. Walker
Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans
The Scorpion King
as Philos
The Sorrows
Unknown Role
Career Timeline
2016
2015
2012
2010
2008
2007
2006
JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Joy Division
as Dennis
No Go: The Free Derry Story
as Narrator (voice)
Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
as Narrator (voice)
Ocean Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)
Surviving Disaster
as Himself - Narrator
Surviving Disaster
Role unknown