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Bernard Hill

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1944-12-17 (79 years old)

Biography

Born in 1944, Bernard Hill is a British actor. 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.

Filmography

all 140

Movies 104

TV Shows 36

Narrator 17

self 12

Bernard Hill

Biography

Filmography

all 140

Movies 104

TV Shows 36

Narrator 17

self 12

Voice 4

The Moor (2023)

Forever Young (2023)

Segunda oportunidad (2018)

Interlude: City of a Dead Woman (2017)

Inside CERN (2016)

Golden Years (2016)

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary (2016)

North v South (2015)

Unforgotten (2015)

India's Frontier Railways (2015)

Wolf Hall (2015)

Hope and Wire (2014)

From There to Here (2014)

How Britain Worked (2012)

Reflections on Titanic (2012)

Outpost 11 (2012)

ParaNorman (2012)

Titanic's Final Mystery (2012)

Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012)

Titanic: Case Closed (2012)

The Kid (2010)

Canoe Man (2010)

Indian Hill Railways (2010)

Saxon Gold: Finding the Hoard (2010)

Valkyrie (2008)

Franklyn (2008)

Sunshine (2008)

Wild China (2008)

Fairy Tales (2008)

Exodus (2008)

Bombay Railway (2008)

Titus: The Gorilla King (2008)

Save Angel Hope (2007)

Exodus (2007)

Bombay Railway (2007)

The Heart of the Earth (2007)

Five Days (2007)

JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed (2006)

Joy Division (2006)

No Go: The Free Derry Story (2006)

Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster (2006)

Ocean Odyssey (2006)

Surviving Disaster (2006)

The Last Tommy (2005)

A Very Social Secretary (2005)

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)

Horizon: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony (2005)

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony (2005)

Beatles Biggest Secrets (2004)

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)

See You In The Future (2004)

Wimbledon (2004)

The Grid (2004)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Gothika (2003)

Ancient Egyptians (2003)

One Life (2003)

The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

The Scorpion King (2002)

Going Off Big Time (2000)

Eisenstein (2000)

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000)

A Question of Faith (2000)

The Criminal (1999)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

Great Expectations (1999)

True Crime (1999)

Titanic: Secrets Revealed (1998)

Titanic (1997)